Julie's Kiwi Mandarin Dressing
"Once upon a time, in the recipe request section of an online bulletin board, someone asked for a kiwi mandarin salad dressing. I looked all over for one online, but no luck. So I went to the store and got myself a bunch o' kiwis and such, and came up with one of my own. I had it with dinner that night, and it was darn tasty! The folks on the other board have had it, too, and say they really like it."
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 4 ripe kiwi fruits
- 1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges or 2 mandarin oranges (fresh would be better and sweeter)
- 1⁄2 - 1 teaspoon salt (to taste)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar (to taste, try it without, first)
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ("or" more)
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar (to taste)
- 1 tablespoon rice cooking wine
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lime juice
- 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
directions
- Peel the kiwis, then whir them in the food processor until they're thoroughly liquified.
- They won't be completely liquid because they have a fair amount of fiber in them.
- Place in a bowl.
- If using canned mandarins, rinse them well (they usually come in syrup).
- If using fresh, peel and separate the mandarins.
- Then process them well.
- Put a sieve over the bowl with the kiwis and pour the processed mandarins into the sieve to separate the juice from the pulp.
- Add the remaining ingredients and whisk well.
- Pour over field greens salad mix and enjoy!
- Pine nuts make a nice garnish for this dressing.
- Note: I created this recipe as a request from a user on an online bulletin board.
- Fresh mandarins are preferred, rather than canned, for sure.
- Also, other people who've tried this recipe really like it- one substituted balsamic vinegar, but it's such a strong vinegar (and would cover the taste of the kiwi) I think the rice vinegar is better.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Julesong
Tukwila, 87
<p>It's simply this: I love to cook! :) <br /><br />I've been hanging out on the internet since the early days and have collected loads of recipes. I've tried to keep the best of them (and often the more unusual) and look forward to sharing them with you, here. <br /><br />I am proud to say that I have several family members who are also on RecipeZaar! <br /><br />My husband, here as <a href=http://www.recipezaar.com/member/39857>Steingrim</a>, is an excellent cook. He rarely uses recipes, though, so often after he's made dinner I sit down at the computer and talk him through how he made the dishes so that I can get it down on paper. Some of these recipes are in his account, some of them in mine - he rarely uses his account, though, so we'll probably usually post them to mine in the future. <br /><br />My sister <a href=http://www.recipezaar.com/member/65957>Cathy is here as cxstitcher</a> and <a href=http://www.recipezaar.com/member/62727>my mom is Juliesmom</a> - say hi to them, eh? <br /><br />Our <a href=http://www.recipezaar.com/member/379862>friend Darrell is here as Uncle Dobo</a>, too! I've been typing in his recipes for him and entering them on R'Zaar. We're hoping that his sisters will soon show up with their own accounts, as well. :) <br /><br />I collect cookbooks (to slow myself down I've limited myself to purchasing them at thrift stores, although I occasionally buy an especially good one at full price), and - yes, I admit it - I love FoodTV. My favorite chefs on the Food Network are Alton Brown, Rachel Ray, Mario Batali, and Giada De Laurentiis. I'm not fond over fakey, over-enthusiastic performance chefs... Emeril drives me up the wall. I appreciate honesty. Of non-celebrity chefs, I've gotta say that that the greatest influences on my cooking have been my mother, Julia Child, and my cooking instructor Chef Gabriel Claycamp at Seattle's Culinary Communion. <br /><br />In the last couple of years I've been typing up all the recipes my grandparents and my mother collected over the years, and am posting them here. Some of them are quite nostalgic and are higher in fat and processed ingredients than recipes I normally collect, but it's really neat to see the different kinds of foods they were interested in... to see them either typewritten oh-so-carefully by my grandfather, in my grandmother's spidery handwriting, or - in some cases - written by my mother years ago in fountain pen ink. It's like time travel. <br /><br />Cooking peeve: food/cooking snobbery. <br /><br />Regarding my black and white icon (which may or may not be the one I'm currently using): it the sea-dragon tattoo that is on the inside of my right ankle. It's also my personal logo.</p>
