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Spicy Beer Mustard Dressing and Spring Garden Crunch

Fresh, nourishing, light, crunchy with a savory flavor
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 4 cups lettuce, kale, Swiss Chard, parsley, mint, basil
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes or early tomatoes sliced cut in half
  • 6 spring green onions sliced thinly
  • 6 radishes shaved (sliced thin, thin)
  • handful chives and/or dill mince chives and leave dill whole
  • 8 sugar snap peas chopped
  • 6 Persian cucumbers or small cucumbers or 1 English cucumber cut in chunks
  • 4 hard boiled eggs (optional) cut in half

SPICY BEER MUSTARD - Vinaigrette Dressing

  • ¼ cup Spicy Beer Mustard
  • ¼ cup Balsamic Vinegar
  • ¼ cup Soy Sauce
  • ¾ cup olive oil
  • pinch salt or to taste

Instructions

Constructing the Salad

  • Tear greens into bite-sized pieces and also massage the Kale before tearing. Slice the remaining garden vegetables, peel the eggs and slice in half
    Choose a platter and arrange the vegetables and eggs by the row on the platter
    Cover and chill in refrigerator and may be prepared several hours prior to serving

Spicy Beer Mustard Vinaigrette

  • Delightfully simple instructions: select a 2 cup bowl or jar, mix Spicy Beer Mustard, Balsamic Vinegar, Soy Sauce, pinch of salt and stir with a wire whip or shake the jar to mix then drizzle the olive oil into the mixture stirring the bowl or shaking the jar until an emulsion forms. The dressing will be thick enough to coat a spoon. Taste and season as you like.

Serving the crunchy Green Salad

  • Serve in the platter with tongs so that guests may help themselves to the level of crunch desirable. Pass the Spicy Beer Mustard Vinaigrette. See the smiles when the flavor touches tongue!