Granny Smith apples are available all year-round, but we tend to use them in salads during the fall and winter months.
Cranberries dreid and sweetened with apple juice pair beautifully with pumpkin seeds and chèvre.
Granny Smith Baby Greens Salad
This salad does have a few more Carbs than others, but worth the treat. Serve family style or make up individual plates.
Belberry Royal Selection, Cameroon Mango vinegar is available at specialty shops. Cameroon (country in Central Africa) produces some of the best mangos in the world.
Ingredients
Salad
- 6 cups Baby Greens 0 CHO
- ½ medium (88 gr) Granny Smith apple 10 CHO
- ¼ cup (40 gr) Dried Cranberries sweetened with apple juice 29 CHO
- ¼ cup (25 gr) Pumpkin Seeds, unsalted .25 CHO
- 1/3 cup (90 gr) Chevre 3 CHO
SALAD TOTAL CHO 42.25 CHO
- 4 EQUAL SERVINGS = 10.5 CHO PER SERVING
Vinaigrette
- ¼ cup olive oil 0 CHO
- 2 TBSP Cameroon Mango Vinegar 6 CHO
- ½ tsp. Dijon mustard 0 CHO
- ½ tsp. (6 gr) honey 6 CHO
- 2-3 grinds each salt and pepper 0 CHO
VINAIGRETTE TOTAL CHO 12 CHO
- TOTAL WEIGHT 141 GRAMS
- 12 CHO DIVIDED BY 141 GRAMS = .085 CHO/GRAM
- 1 TBSP = 12 GRAMS (.085 CHO x 12 GRAMS) 1 CHO/TBSP
- 12 TBSP DIVIDED BY 4 SERVINGS = 3 CHO PER SERVING
SALAD AND VINAIGRETTE TOTAL CHO 54.25 CHO
- 4 EQUAL SERVINGS = 13.5 CHO PER SERVING
Instructions
- Mix vinaigrette ingredients in a small bowl and whisk to incorporate.
- Cut apple into bite size pieces just prior to serving.
- Place baby greens on the serving dish and toss with the dressing. Next add the apple and cranberries and toss again.
- Top with pumpkin seeds and Chevre cheese.
- Serve immediately.
