Mexican Salad With Honey Lime Dressing
"I found this at the MyFoodDiary.com forums, but originally it comes from SELF magazine. The original salad used radishes, but I substitute green onions instead. Healthy fats in this salad, but I've also reduced the amount of oil in the dressing. Sometimes I eat the leftovers in a tortilla as a sort of veggie or salad wrap."
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- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
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Salad
- 1⁄2 head romaine lettuce, chopped (about 2 1/2 cups)
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 3⁄4 cup tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- 3⁄4 cup jicama, peeled and chopped
- 3⁄4 cup corn kernel (fresh uncooked preferred, but can substituted frozen or canned)
- 3⁄4 cup green onion, chopped
- 1⁄2 ripe avocado, peeled and diced
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup feta cheese, crumbled (reduced fat variety, if desired)
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Dressing
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon jalapeno, minced
- 1⁄4 cup fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (original recipe called for 1/4 cup)
- 2 tablespoons honey
directions
- Mix the dressing ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
- Toss all the salad ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Drizzle salad dressing over the salad and toss. Season with salt and pepper, if desired.
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Reviews
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I make this salad all the time as it epitomizes freshness to me. The jicama adds a wonderful crunch. It is light, and bright, and delicious every time. -
I've made this a couple of times now, my husband really loves it. The dressing is delicious! -
Rating the dressing only. (3+ stars) I found this tasty but a tad sweet, I will cut back on the honey next time. I loved the taste of cilantro in this dressing. I will add more cilantro next time. -
Thank you I used your recipe for the dressing it was so good! A hit with even our cilantro hating family :P -
I threw all the dressing ingredients in a chopper, and it came out perfect. It was absolutely delicious!!
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Tweaks
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This salad was so good. We're enjoying it for a second night and I feel as though I could eat it every night. I substituted baby spinach for the romaine, red onion for the green onions, used a whole avocado and increased the cilantro. I included jicama because I had it on hand, but for those who find it difficult to obtain I don't think its absence would be significant. Thanks, MathMom, for such a great recipe. -
I made this delightful salad a couple of days ago for dinner. Yum! I pretty much followed the recipe except I already had garbanzo beans so threw in a couple of handfuls of those instead of the black beans and used canned red peppers. I didn't have any fresh jalapeno but had an open can of chipotle peppers in adobo so threw in one of those instead. I made the dressing in the food processor to blend up the chipotle pepper really well. I absolutely loved the "fresh" taste of this salad with the crunchy jicama and great blend of flavors. Thanks for posting this gem, MathMom.calif, it's great!
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This was really quite good! I used spring mix greens instead of the romaine lettuce. I used radishes in place of the jicama. My menu was tamales, Mexican rice, and this wonderful salad. Yummy!
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What a great salad. I left out the jicama and used red onions instead of the green and added a little extra honey to the dressing and left everything else as written. Loved it.
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I live in Los Angeles County. Married 25 years. 3 kids ages 24, 21 and 12. I'm a math professor and a computer tech. The picture above is me running in the Los Angeles Marathon (the first time I did it) on March 4, 2007. I'm smiling because the picture was taken at mile 3. I wasn't smiling by the end. LOL. I've since done the Long Beach Marathon in Oct. 2007 and I did L.A. again in March 2008. The third time was the trick. I finally had a good race and I qualified to run the Boston Marathon which I did in April 2009. Now I'm into triathlon, since summer 2009.
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