Orangy Delight Dressing

 

  • Tired of bottled dressings filled with health-harming ingredients?
  • Tired of dressing ingredients you can’t even pronounce?
  • Looking for a fresh, flavourful dressing to entice your family to eat more salad?

All health-sustaining foods should be natural – with no additives, no preservatives, no colourants.
Struggle no more. My Orangy Delight Dressing contains only natural health-giving ingredients.

Here’s what a friend said about this dressing:

Deb, this dressing is yummy! It far surpasses the best bottled version, and without those non-healthy ingredients.

You be the judge – try it! Whip up this dressing in minutes and delight the taste-buds of your family or friends.

Salad Ingredients

  • 2-3 cups Spring lettuce or mini-greens
  • 2 ripe cherry or grape Tomatoes – halved [ regular tomatoes also work fine, diced works better]
  • 1/2 grated Cucumber – but keep aside 3-6 half-moon circles for garnish
  • 2 Oranges – peeled and kept in segments
  • 2 green onions – keep a two-inch green piece for garnish, chop the remainder
  • Black pepper [non raw - optional]

Orangy Delight Dressing Ingredients

  • 1 ½ Oranges, peeled, whole
  • 1 T soaked Sun-dried Tomato
  • 1 T soaked organic Thompson Raisins
  • 1/8 – ¼ teaspoon Himalayan Crystal Salt [as per your taste]
  • Freshly ground Black Pepper to taste

    Note:
    This dressing needs to be consumed the same day you make it, because fresh orange turns bitter once it begins to oxidize. So, indulge and use it all!

Method

  1. Soak the raisins in lukewarm water for 20-30 minutes
  2. Soak the sun-dried tomato in lukewarm water for 20-30 minutes
  3. Grate the cucumber and pour the cucumber juice into a cup. You may want to use this later to thin the dressing if it’s a little thick for your liking.
  4. In a large bowl, mix together the salad greens, cut tomatoes, grated cucumber and sliced green onions. Transfer the salad to a large plate and arrange it into a mound
  5. Place the orange segments, lengthwise and all turned the same way, at equal distances in a circle around the lower edge of the salad greens. Cut the remaining segments in half and toss randomly over the rest of the greens.
  6. Blend all dressing ingredients together in a high-speed blender, till a smooth liquid. If this seems a little thick for your liking, add a dash of the leftover cucumber juice. This dressing is naturally thick. Be careful to not dilute the flavour too much if you do choose to add some cucumber juice.
  7. Pour the dressing in a circumference, mid-way up the salad forming a middle ring of colour around the salad ingredients.
  8. To garnish: Decorate the top of the salad mound with the half-moon cucumbers in a circle with their cut side forming the inner circle. Next place three half cherry tomatoes, face up inside the cucumber circle on top and center of the salad mound. Next, take the two-inch piece of green onion that you set aside. Split it three-quarter way down the center keeping it intact so you have a v-shape. Place the v end in the center of the cherry tomato circle.
  9. Top with a light twist of freshly ground black pepper
  10. Enjoy!
  •   This is one of the recipes from my upcoming e-book RAW ENERGY for BUSY PEOPLE – 52 Weeks 52 Recipes – Volume #1