Fruit and Vegetable Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette Recipe

 

I love this bright, refreshing salad in the winter when days are damp and cold, and I am craving garden tomatoes.  Look for Sweet Grape Tomatoes at your local supermarket.  They brighten up this perky salad and the taste is a good substitute during winter days.  This fruit and vegetable salad with champagne vinaigrette is also a great side dish.  The champagne vinaigrette leaves a wonderful tingle on the tongue.  The dressing give this combination of fruit and vegetables a new life and makes any winer meal feel a little like summer.

Fruit and vegetable salad with champagne vinaigrette recipe, comments and photo was shared with my by Karen Calanchini, Food Stylist and Photographer, of Redding, CA.

 

Fruit and vegetable salad with Champagne vinaigrette

 

Fruit and Vegetable Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette Recipe:
Prep Time
20 mins
Total Time
20 mins
 
Course: Salad
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Fruit and Vegetable Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette Recipe
Servings: 3 to 4 servings
Ingredients
Fruit and Vegetable Salad:
  • 1 cup pineapple, fresh, cut into bite-size pieces
  • 1 cup sweet grape tomatoes, cut into bite-size pieces
  • 1 cup English cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut intro bite-size pieces
  • 1/4 of a small red onion, cut in half and then into thin slices
  • 1 teaspoon red chili flakes*
  • 1 tablespoon majoram leaves (leave smaller leaves whole), rough chop
  • Coarse salt and freshly-ground black pepper to taste
Champagne Vinaigrette Recipe:
  • 1/4 cup hazelnut oil**
  • 2 tablespoon Orange Muscat Champagne Vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
  • Coarse salt and freshly-ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
Fruit and Vegetable Salad Instructions:
  1. Prepare Champagne Vinaigrette; set aside until ready to serve.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the prepared pineapple, grape tomatoes, cucumber, onion, chili flakes, marjoram, salt, and pepper.

  3. Drizzle a little of the prepared Champagne Vinaigrette over the salad and mix together.  Do not overdress the salad.  Taste and add more vinaigrette as needed just to coat the ingredients.

Champagne Vinaigrette Instructions:
  1. In a container with a tight fitting lid, combine the hazelnut oil, champagne vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper; shake well to combined.

  2. Store, covered, in the refrigerator.

  3. Serve at room temperature. Shake or stir just before serving.

Recipe Notes

* If you can find a red jalapeño chile pepper, use in place of the chili flakes

** You may also use walnut oil or extra virgin olive oil.

 

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