Harvest Wizard

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Peach Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette

Filed under: Delicious Bite, Tagged as: delicious bite, peaches

Here is a quick and tasty lunch or dinner salad that combines the best of summer flavors. Sweet just picked butter lettuce and ripe peaches are perfect with this light, nutty, walnut-flavored vinaigrette. You'll find the flavors gently bounce off one another.

For this salad, I picked an heirloom red butter lettuce from the garden and matched it with ripe yellow peaches from the farmers' market. The lettuce was full and buttery and the peaches were dripping sweet.

The vinaigrette features walnut oil. Walnut oil is quite delicate, light colored with a rich, nutty flavor. Dab some oil on your finger for a taste and smell ahead of time. Walnut oil is best in cold dishes and salad dressings where you will easily recognized its flavor. Used in cooking, walnut oil can be a bit bitter.

The red butter lettuce I used here is called "Yugoslavian Red Butter". It is said to have come years ago from the former Yugoslavia, now Croatia. This lettuce is blushed red along its leaf tips and spotted red below across its deep green leaves. It's a pretty lettuce and a great color match for unpeeled peaches.

This recipe serves 4.

Peach Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette

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Dressing Ingredients

3 tablespoons walnut oil
3 tablespoons white wine vinegar

Salad Ingredients

Leaves of red butter lettuce
3-4 large ripe peaches, pitted and sliced
1 tablespoon minced red onion
2 tablespoons slivered walnuts, toasted

Directions

1 Whisk the oil into the vinegar until emulsified. Set the dressing aside.

2 Arrange the butter lettuce on a chilled serving plate. Arrange the peach slices on the lettuce. Sprinkle with onions and walnuts. Spoon the dressing over the salad just before serving.

You can substitute spinach, esacarole, endive, or Belgian endive for butter lettuce.

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Peach Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette