Tossed Green Salad

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Prep time: About 15 minutes

Makes: 6 - 8 servings

    

Ingredients

• 1             ripe avocado
• 1             crisp apple (Gravenstein or Pippin)
• 3 T.          lemon juice
• 1/2 head    Romaine lettuce
• 1/2           cucumber, thinly sliced.
• 1/2 cup    carrots, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup    thinly sliced and chopped red onion
• 1 cup       chopped ripe tomatoes
• 3 T.           Ranch-style salad dressing

    

Directions -

1. Cut the avocado in half. Twist off one half. Chop a knife into the pit and twist it out.
2. Holding each avocado half in your hand, score with a dinner knife and scoop out.
3. Core and chop apple.
4. Put avocado, chopped apple and lemon juice in a bowl and mix. Let marinade 10 minutes.
5. Wash lettuce. Let drip dry (or spin). Tear into pieces into large salad bowl.
6. Arrange overlapping cucumber slices on top of lettuce around outside edge.
7. Arrange carrots in a ring just inside cucumbers.
8. Sprinkle red onions on cucumbers and carrots.
9. Arrange the avocado/apple mixture in a ring inside the carrots.
10. Chop tomatoes and pile in the center.
11. Just before serving, dress with salad dressing and toss.

Tried this salad on friends at a dinner party, with good results.

 

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