Mixed Green Salad with Fennel-Tarragon Dressing

Name: Mixed Green Salad with Fennel-Tarragon Dressing
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 1 small fennel bulb, cored and roughly chopped; 8 garlic cloves; 1/4 cup water; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice; 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard; 1/2 cup Greek yogurt; 1/4 cup fresh tarragon, whole leaves; One 7-ounce package (8 cups) green-leaf lettuce mix, such as Ready Pac Parisian; 8 large radishes, sliced thin; 1 cup grape tomatoes; 1 small red onion, sliced thin; 1 small cucumber, cut in half lengthwise and sliced into half-moons; Salt and freshly ground black pepper

December 9, 2011

A great green salad has always been a staple on my restaurant menus and on my table at home. The combination of Dijon mustard, good-quality vinegar, and olive oil gives tender green leaves their raison d’être. There is no olive oil in this dressing and it still tastes great. I kept the Dijon mustard in the mix because it’s very low in fat—and because few ingredients can pack a punch like Dijon mustard. Yogurt, lemon juice, and aromatics like tarragon and fennel round out the dressing. You’ll never again eat a green dressed with artificial-tasting, gloppy, low-fat dressing.

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