Everyday Green Salad

If your looking for more Mexican food on the family dinner table on Tuesday nights, you might clicked on the right recipe: Everyday Green Salad is a Mexican salad. I never made it yet, so if you make it please post your thoughts or constructive criticism in the comments.

Everyday Green Salad

Ingredients:

1 head lettuce or red leaf lettuce 

1/3 cup white distilled vinegar

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/3 cup olive oil

1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1 garlic clove; minced

1/3 cup red onion, thinly sliced

1 1/2 teaspoon kosher or coarse sea salt, or to taste

4 carrots, or 3/4 lb, peeled thinly sliced

1 large cucumber or 3/4 lb, quartered, seeded, sliced (to make the cucumbers sweeter, take the end of the cucumber and rub it on the rest of the cucumber)

2 ripe tomatoes, or 3/4 lb quartered seeded, sliced 

1 large ripe Mexican avocado, halved, pitted sliced

To Prepare:

In plastic container that has a lid, add the vinegar, vegetable and olive oils, Dijon mustard, garlic, onion, salt, black pepper and sugar. Cover the container with a lid and shake for 10 sec. until the vinaigrette is well emulsified. Alternatively, you can also whisk with a bowl.

Place the lettuce, carrots, cucumber and tomato in a large bowl. Pour a generous amount of the vinaigrette but not swimming in it.

Top with avocado slices, drizzle a bit more vinaigrette on top of and serve.

Pati Jinich - Pati's Mexican Table - http://www.patismexicantable.com/2012/11/everyday_green_salad/