Avocado and Grapefruit Salad with Pine Nut Dressing
susan
A Gourmet recipe that we made for a dinner party 2.10.07
ingredients
- Dressing
- 3 T gresh grapefruit juice
- 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted lightly
- 2 t white-wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup olive oil, or to taste
- Salad
- 3 ripe avocados
- 6 cups loosely packed spinach leaves
- 3 grapefruits with rind and pith cut away with aserrated knife and the grapefruits cut into sections
- 4 slices bacon cooked until crisp
directions
- 1
Make the dressing: In a blender blend together the grapefruit juce, the pine nuts, the vinegar and salt and pepper to taste until the mixture is smooth, with the motor running add the oil in a stream, and blend the dressing until it is emulsified.
- 2
Peel and pit the avocados and cut them into wedges. Divide the spinach among 6 salad plates, arrange the avocado wedges and the grapefruit sections decoratively on top, and drizzle each sald with some of the drssing. Crumble the bacon on top of the salads.
Source: Epicurious
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