Thursday, May 6, 2010

Strawberry - Green Salad with Ginger - Cumin Dressing

This recipe is the second in the series of my strawberry festival demonstration. If you missed my announcement about me being a featured chef for the upcoming California Strawberry Festival on May 16th at 12:00 PM, please click here.
My intention is to combine the anti-oxidant power of the star ingredient, strawberries, with the essence of Indian spices along with refreshing greens.













Strawberry-Green Salad with Cumin-Ginger Dressing

Serves 4
  • 12 ounces organic spring salad mix
  • ½ pound strawberries, sliced
  • ¼ cup toasted pecans
Dressing:

  • 2 tablespoons ginger juice (see recipe below)
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon dry roasted cumin powder (see recipe below)
  • ¼ cup olive oil
To make the dressing, mix all the ingredients except olive oil in a bowl. Slowly whisk olive oil into the dressing. Pour the dressing over greens and strawberries. Mix in. Just before serving, sprinkle with pecans.

Ginger juice
  • 2 inch piece fresh ginger
Using a fine grater, grate ginger and place it in a small piece of cheese cloth and squeeze the juice.

Dry roasted cumin powder
  • 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
In a small skillet, roast cumin seeds over medium heat while stirring and shaking the skillet. Fry until aromatic and the seeds turn a shade darker. Remove from the heat. Let it cool. Transfer to a spice grinder and grind into powder.

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11 comments:

  1. This looks and sounds delicious! I love salad and strawberries. The combination of ingredients for the dressing...yum. I wrote this down to make this weekend! Thank you so much for sharing :)
    Wendy

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  2. Komali, that cumin-ginger dressing sounds wonderful, can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. This sounds so delicious! I'm going to have to give it a try. The strawberries are so wonderful this year, aren't they?

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  4. First link I checked out... Glad I did! Strawberries have been amazing this season. I'll have to try your recipe I love cumin!

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  5. This looks great and congrats on the festival!

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  6. Yummy combination~ I'll have to try when our strawberries look as good as yours in the store!

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  7. Looks delicious and the photos are beautiful.

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  8. I love the blues. Happy Blue Monday.

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  9. I made a similar salad this weekend...everyone loved it. Now I will try it again with your dressing. Your pictures are awesome!

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  10. What a fantastic looking salad. Thanks so much for sharing it.
    Fondly,
    Ann
    @
    The Tattered Tassel

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  11. That's a different twist with strawberries. I love this recipe so much I'm a new follower. I cant wait to buy strawberries and try it. Thanks for sharing!

    Anne-Marie

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