Here’s another one of my new go-to salads. I’m sure I’ll make it a ton this summer. This salad is tasty and really simple! Which is pretty much a requirement for me if it’s being used as a side dish. I made it with some marinated chicken the other night, which was soo good too. I’ll have to post the recipe soon. It went great! As a side note, if you have a lot of navel oranges to use up, cut them into to chunks and replace the mandarin oranges with them. I love it this way too! Or add some shredded chicken and serve it as a main dish with hot rolls. Yum! Thanks to my sister Melissa for passing along another great recipe.
Green Salad with Orange Dressing
Submitted by Amy ~ The Sisters Cafe
Salad:
1 head lettuce, chopped
*The rest of these ingredients can be adjusted to your preferences
1 medium red onion, thinly sliced (sometimes I use a little less)
1 11oz can mandarin oranges, drained
6 oz sliced almonds (sometimes I use a little more)
4.5 T. sugar
Dressing:
1 t. grated orange peel
1/3 cup Orange juice
1 T. Good Seasons dry Italian mix
1 c. canola oil (I haven’t tried it yet, but I think you could cut this down if you prefer less oil in your dressings)
2 T. sugar
2 T. red wine vinegar
Sugar almonds in a pan over medium heat, stirring until sugar melts and coats the almonds. Watch carefully so they don’t burn. Cool. Set aside. Combine salad ingredients in a large bowl and chill. Combine salad dressing ingredients well and pour over salad immediately before serving.
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The sugared almonds must add a nice elegant touch to this salad. How did you know that I have a whole bunch of oranges on hand that I need to use before a vacation? Impeccable timing!
that looks really good Amy – I love fun summer salads!
Sounds Good! You might try substituting mandarin orange juice for some of the oil. I have a poppy seed dressing recipe that I substitute 1/2 with and it works and tastes great.
I am so loving this salad!
I have been on such a salad kick lately – in fact, I just posted on my blog the Honey Red Wine Vinaigrette dressing that I got from your site years ago. It’s still a favorite – but I always know if your site has a recipe that it will be a hit. Thanks!
Is this the one you made for us when we came over for dinner? If it is, then I loved it! If not, I can’t wait to try it. :)
Hey Mindy-yes it is the salad I made for you! Glad the quinoa soup turned out tonight too! Rosemary-hope the salad turned out! I always get big boxes of oranges at Costco. We go through most of them but I am always looking for ways to use those last few up. Cyndi-ohh, can’t wait to try the mandarin orange juice-that would be awesome! Thanks for the idea.
I just realized today that this was the last recipe that I have received on my reader from your website. I subscribed to your blog a while ago and would hate to miss any of your wonderful recipes. Do I just need to re-subscribe or something? Is there a new system since you all moved? Am I the only one with this problem?
Just made this salad and OH YES! This will definitely be on our summer dinner table a couple times a week. I worked at a restaurant years ago and the ONLY thing I couldn’t make were the sugared pecans. But for some reason the sugar melted nicely with the slivered almonds I used here. The vinaigrette is a wonderful blend…..I didn’t have quite enough fresh orange juice (don’t use concentrate!), so I added the juice from the mandarin oranges. It is absolutely wonderful.
I love this salad! I don’t like mandrin oranges so I substitute them with craisins and it’s way yummy. I never thought of just doing cat up oranges… I’ll have to try it that way next time!
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