Pear, Toasted Walnut and Mixed Green Salad with Champagne-Cranberry Vinaigrette

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 servings
  • Total: 16 min
  • Prep: 8 min
  • Cook: 8 min
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Ingredients

1/2 cup halved walnuts

1/2 cup Champagne

1/2 cup canned jellied cranberry sauce

1/4 cup minced shallots

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt and ground black pepper

6 cups mixed lettuce greens

2 pears, cored and diced

1/2 cup dried cranberries

Directions

  1. Toast walnuts in a small dry skillet over medium heat (it will take about 3 minutes).
  2. In a small saucepan, combine Champagne, cranberry sauce, shallots, Dijon mustard and oil. Whisk together. Set pan over high heat and bring to a boil. Simmer until reduced to about 1/3 cup (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat and season to taste with salt and black pepper.
  3. Place greens in a large bowl. Top with pears, toasted walnuts and dried cranberries. Drizzle over cranberry vinaigrette just before serving.

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Diane S.

I'm serving this on xmas day. I've already made the dressing (yum). Do you have to warm the dressing for can you serve it cold? Diane from Oxard, Ca.

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