Taco Salad with Honey Lime Dressing....

I hope everyone had a fabulous Mother's Day!  After all of the food we ate today, I'm going to need to eat salads the next few weeks.  Check out the brunch menu we had for Mother's day here.  I found this recipe at Baked Bree, I am always trying to find new salad ideas. I tend to make the same salad a lot, the quick and easy one.  A couple of things about this recipe.  I forgot to add the cheese and sour cream.  We didn't miss it at all, it was very good without them.  Obviously, this is the vegetarian version I used the Quorn veggie chicken because it is my favorite, but use what you like.  I defrosted it before I put oil and spices on it then grilled it.  Hubby said this one was a keeper.  The dressing was so good! 

Taco Salad with a Honey Lime Dressing

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For the Honey Lime Dressing:
¼ cup honey
3 limes juiced
2 tablespoons white vinegar
1 tablespoon cumin
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon fresh ground pepper
1/3 cup olive oil

Put everything except for the olive oil in a bowl and whisk until combined.

While whisking, slowly pour in the olive oil.  Whisk until smooth.  if it needs more acid, add more lime juice or vinegar.  Not sweet enough?  Add a little more honey.  Make it to your taste.  Set aside. If it breaks before you are ready to serve, just whisk it back together.  I found the measurements to be perfect, I didn't need to adjust at all.

 

I did the whisking the first time, but the second time we had it I just threw everything into a squeeze bottle and shook it up. It was much faster!

For the salad:
1 head of Romaine shredded
3 green onions, sliced
1 red pepper, diced
½ a red onion, sliced thin
2 ears grilled corn (or a bag of thawed frozen corn)
half of a bunch of cilantro
tomatoes
grilled veggie chicken, thawed (just seasoned with olive oil, salt, pepper, and little cumin or if you have time marinate some of it in the dressing. 
tortilla chips, crushed
1 can of black beans, rinse them really well.  Put them in a medium hot sauté pan with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Turn them around in the pan for a minute.  Add 2-3 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon oregano, salt and pepper.  Heat the beans through and they are done. 

Put everything except for the chips and beans in a large bowl.

Toss it.  Add a little dressing.  Add the chips.   Add the beans on top. I hope you enjoyed this as much as we did.

 

Have a wonderful day!

Denise

xoxo

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