Apr 8 • 📝 Tips
Healthy Recipe Ideas #6: Roasted Pecans and Fresh Pears with Mixed Greens (For Lunch!)
Today’s lunch idea: Roasted Pecans + Fresh Pears with Mixed Greens.
Sweet + savory + crunchy, with a bright lemony vinaigrette.
Roasted Pecans and Fresh Pears with Mixed Greens
Makes 4 servings. Adjust ingredients as needed.
Ingredients:
½ cup of raw pecans
4 cups of mixed greens of choice (spring mix, baby spinach, or arugula)
¼ red onion, thinly sliced in rounds, cut in half
1 ripe pear
Vinaigrette:
2 tablespoons of vinegar of choice
Juice of ½ lemon (≈1.5 tablespoons)
½ clove of garlic (or ½ teaspoon minced garlic)
¼ teaspoon of ground cumin
½ tablespoon of raw honey
½ teaspoon of Dijon mustard
¼ teaspoon of sea salt
⅛ teaspoon of pepper
1 tablespoon of fresh minced parsley
2 chopped green onions
2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
Directions:
- Roast raw pecans in a 350° F oven for 5–8 minutes or until browned. Be careful not to burn nuts.
- In a large salad bowl, toss together greens and onions.
- Top with cooled roasted pecans.
- Just before serving, peel pears, cut in chunks, and place on top of salad.
- Top with either variation of the Everyday Basic Vinaigrette below, and toss all of the other ingredients right before serving.
Vinaigrette:
- Add to a blender the vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, honey, mustard, sea salt and pepper, and blend.
- Add the fresh chopped parsley and onion, and blend.
- Add oil and blend (if possible, slowly stream in oil through an opening in the top of the blender).
Serve at room temperature.
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Healthy Recipe Ideas #6: Roasted Pecans and Fresh Pears with Mixed Greens (For Lunch!)
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