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Summer Southwest Salad with Pineapple Dijon Vinaigrette

👥4 people
⏲️10m
🕐8m
🍽️starter
Summer Southwest Salad with Pineapple Dijon Vinaigrette

This refreshing salad will make a nice addition to dried or cured meats, such as our <a href=“/al-pastor-chicken-jerky“>Al Pastor Chicken Jerky</a>.

Seasons:summerautumnwinter

Ingredients

  1. For Vinaigrette:
  2. 2 tbsp. dijon mustard
  3. 2 cloves of garlic
  4. .5 of a shallot
  5. 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
  6. 3/4 cup olive oil
  7. Salt and pepper to taste
  8. 2 tbsp. pineapple juice
  9. For Salad:
  10. 4 ounces spring mix
  11. 1 corn on the cob
  12. 2 ounces of black beans
  13. 12 shishito peppers
  14. 4 corn tortillas, chopped

Method

  1. Pre-heat the Egg to 400 degrees and set for direct grilling.
  2. To make the Vinaigrette, combine dijon, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, shallot, garlic, and pineapple juice in a blender. Blend until smooth. Slowly add olive oil to emulsify the vinaigrette. Set aside for salad.
  3. For the salad, shuck the corn and roast on the egg until charred. Set aside to cool, then cut off the kernels from the cob.
  4. Once your corn tortillas are chopped into thin slices, fry in the oil of choice until crispy.
  5. In a bowl, combine the greens, corn, black beans, corn tortillas strips, vinaigrette, salt, and pepper.
  6. Mix together and serve by itself or with dried meat of choice.

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