Blueberry Breakfast Salad

Lynn’s Paradise Café, Louisville, Kentucky

Ingredients

  • Mixed, torn salad greens: 2 pounds
  • Blueberry Vinaigrette: Recipe follows
  • Fresh blueberries: 4 cups
  • Fresh orange sections or canned
  • Mandarin oranges, drained: 4 cups
  • Granola: 2 cups

Instructions

  1. Toss salad greens with 1-½ cups of the Blueberry Vinaigrette
  2. Divide the dressed greens among eight large plates
  3. Arrange ½ cup orange sections and ½ cup blueberries on top of each salad
  4. Sprinkle each salad with ¼ cup granola
  5. Drizzle remaining dressing on top
  6. Serve immediately

Blueberry Vinaigrette Instructions

  1. In a food processor container, combine 1 cup olive oil, 1 cup frozen blueberries (thawed), 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 teaspoons minced shallot, ¾ teaspoon kosher salt, ½ teaspoon ground white pepper and ½ teaspoon paprika
  2. Process until mixture is smooth
  3. Chill at least 30 minutes to blend flavors

Blueberry Vinaigrette Yield: 2 cups

Number of servings (yield): 8

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