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Ginger Jeweled Salad Recipe
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Ginger Jeweled Salad Recipe

10 ingredients Serves about 6. openrecipes
Ginger Jeweled Salad Recipe

A jewel-inspired holiday salad recipe - mixed leafy salad greens, wild rice, toasted hazelnuts, dried figs and pluots, tossed with a simple ginger juice vinaigrette that I spiked with just a hint of jalapeno.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

360
Calories
7g
Protein
15g
Fat
47g
Carbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Wild Rice 1 cup cooked (164g) 166
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Dried Fig 1 medium (50g) 37
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Chili 1 tsp (2.7g) 8
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Champagne not in our table 0
Hazelnut not in our table 0
Salad not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger juice, made by grating a 4-5-inch piece of ginger into a pile and then pressing it against a strainer to extract the ginger juice
  • 2 tablespoons white wine or Champagne vinegar
  • fine grain sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon jalapeno, very finely chopped
  • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 2/3 cup dried figs, stems trimmed, quartered
  • 1/3 cup dried pluots, chopped
  • 1/2 cup toasted hazelnuts, loosely chopped
  • 1 1/3 cup cooked wild rice, room temperature
  • 5 big handfuls of leafy salad greens (see headnotes), washed and dried

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By 101cookbooks · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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