Avocadosalat mit Cranberrys und Walnüssen (avocado salad with cranberries and walnuts)
A quick salad where ripe avocado, dried cranberries and toasted walnuts play off each other, the walnuts toasted in a dry pan just before serving so they stay warm and fragrant against the cool avocado. Dressing the salad only right before serving keeps the avocado from browning and turning the whole bowl mushy.
Prep15 min
Cook5 min
Servings4
Christoph's avocado salad, the walnuts toasted warm just before serving and everything dressed at the last minute so the avocado doesn't brown.
Ingredients
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Salad
- 2 ripe avocados, peeled, sliced or diced rounded
- 100 g mixed salad leaves rounded
- 60 g dried cranberries rounded
- 50 g walnuts, roughly chopped rounded
- 15 ml lemon juice, for tossing the avocado rounded
Dressing
- 15 ml white wine vinegar rounded
- 10 g Dijon mustard rounded
- 45 ml olive oil rounded
- to taste fine salt rounded
- to taste freshly ground black pepper rounded
Dietary labels are a guide, not a guarantee. If you have an allergy, read the ingredients yourself.
Method
- Toast the walnuts in a dry pan over medium heat, stirring, for about 3 minutes, until lightly browned and fragrant. Tip out onto a plate to stop the cooking.
- Toss the sliced avocado with the lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Whisk the vinegar and mustard together. Whisk in the olive oil gradually until combined. Season with salt and pepper.
- Arrange the salad leaves on a platter or in a bowl. Top with the avocado, cranberries and warm toasted walnuts.
- Drizzle with the dressing just before serving.
Notes
- Toast the walnuts just before assembling, not ahead of time. Warm, freshly toasted walnuts give a nice contrast against the cool avocado that stale, room-temperature nuts do not.
- Toss the avocado in lemon juice as soon as it is cut. This is what keeps it from browning while you finish the rest of the salad.
- Dress the salad only right before serving. Dressed too early, the acid in the dressing softens the avocado further and the leaves wilt.
- This salad does not keep well once assembled; if making ahead, keep the components separate and combine just before eating.
Ingredient substitutions
- Dried cranberries can be dried cherries or raisins.
- Walnuts can be pecans, toasted the same way.
- A crumbling of soft goat’s cheese is a good, non-vegan addition if you would like more richness.
From Christoph Mayer