Mimi's Cookbook

Renni's Stetson Chopped Salad

Ingredients

Instructions

Salad

  • 2 oz. Israeli or pearl cous cous, cooked
  • 2 oz. Arugula or romaine, chopped
  • 2 oz roma tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 1/2 oz cooked salmon or chicken chopped
  • 1/2 oz pepitas
  • 1/2 oz black currents
  • 1 oz. super sweet dried corn
  • 1/2 oz asiago cheese, shredded
  • 1 avacados, chopped

Pesto Buttermilk Dressing

  • 1/2 cup Pesto
  • 1 Shallot, chopped
  • 1 cup Aioli, or 1 cup mayo and 2
  • chopped garlic cloves
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 teas. pepper
  • 1/2 lemon, juiced
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • This make a lot of dressing. May want to halve.
Dressing:

Add first three ingredients to food processor and blend thoroughly. With the motor running add the remaining ingredients to combine. Store in the refrigerator.

Stack salad ingredients side by side on a large tray, like a cobb salad. Chicken, tomato, cheese, lettuce, couscous, avacado, pepitas, currents, and corn. Add a little dressing and toss.


Trader Joes carries the Israeli cous cous and the pepitas.

Whole foods has the black currents in the bulk section and the bagged sweet corn.

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