Ingredients
Scale
Salad
- Mixed Greens or Spinach
- Toasted or Spiced Pecans
- Beets (fresh roasted and cooled or bottled, pickled or plain)
- Goat Cheese, crumbled
Dressing
- ½ cup pecan halves
- ¼ cup white wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp real maple syrup
- 2 tbsp chopped shallot
- ¾ cup olive oil
- water for thinning, around ½ cup
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place pecan halves on a cookie sheet.
- Bake the pecans, stirring occasionally, until toasted and fragrant. Around 10 minutes. Cool completely. Coarsely chop the pecans.
- In a high powered blender or food processor, add pecans, vinegar, syrup, and shallots. While blending, slowly add in olive oil. Blend until completely smooth. Add water as needed to thin.
- Season the dressing with salt and pepper.
- Store in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.