House salad with Walnut dressing

 

Ingredients for salad:

• Green leaf Lettuce - 3 big leaves
• Carrots - 2 medium sized
• Olives - 4-5 pitted pearls
• Cucumber - One medium
• Red radish - 2-3 small ones
• Red Peppers - One small
• Dates - 3-4 pitted
• silvered almonds - 2 tbsp

Ingredients for dressing:

• Shelled unroasted walnuts - 1/2 cup
• Sour cream - 1/2 cup
• Lime juice - one tbsp
• salt - one tsp
• Italian seasoning - one tsp
• sugar - 1/2 tsp
• olive oil - one tbsp

Directions

1. Wash all the vegetables thoroughly. Tear the lettuce into small pieces with hads. Peel the carrots and julienne cut or shred.
2. Peel and cut cucumber into cubes. Cut olives into rings. Dice red peppers and add to the salad.
3. Add the silvered almonds and minced dates and add.
4. Keep the salad aside.
5. Add the walnuts into a food processor and powder them nicely.
6. Add the sour cream, olive oil, lemon juice, italian seasoning, salt pepper, sugar and blend again.
7. Empty the contents and keep in a bowl
8. Mix the dressing with salad only before serving to retain the crispness of the salad. Adding too early will make the salad run watery and soggy.