Thursday 12 July 2012

Chopped Salad with Avocado Dressing

I realized today that the avocado that I bought the other day was almost too ripe.  I needed to use it right away, so I whipped up this salad to accompany the pizza we were having for lunch today.


Salad:
About 6 or 7 grape tomatoes.
1/2 an english cucumber
1/2 an orange pepper
1/3 C broccoli
about 1/3 C peas (frozen, thawed)
a handful of sunflower seeds
about 5 leaves of fresh basil, chopped

Dressing:
1/2 avocado
1 clove garlic (grated)
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp water
chopped fresh basil (about 2 leaves)
Salt (to taste)

Instructions:
1 - Put all of the dressing ingredients into a food processor or blender (or use a stick blender like me), and puree them.  Set aside.
2 - Chop the veggies (except the peas)
3 - Mix in peas, sunflower seeds and basil
4 - Pour the dressing over the salad.
5 - EAT!

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