Starting 2012 Happy & Healthy with an Orange-Spinach-Arugula Salad

Welcome to a New Year of mouthwatering recipe ideas at "My German Kitchen..in the Rockies". Hope you all had a good start into 2012.

Here are my very best wishes to you my friends and readers with a fresh and healthy orange-spinach-arugula salad. The salad is served with  tasty apricot vinaigrette and topped with toasted crunchy hazelnuts.

Hope you enjoy this orange-spinach-arugula salad as much as I did. It is outstanding!

Orange-Arugula-Spinach Salad  
                       

Prep time: 15 min.
Total time: 15 min.
Yield: 4.

Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) organic apricot preserve
• 1 organic fresh lemon, juiced
• 1/4 cup (60 ml) organic extra virgin olive oil
• salt
• freshly ground pepper
• 5-6 cups organic spinach-arugula sald mix
• 1organic orange, pelled, sliced thinly
• 1/2 red onion, small, sliced thinly
• 1/2 cup toasted hazelnuts, chopped

Directions:           

1. Whisk marmalade, lemon juice and olive oil in a smaller bowl until well combined. Season with salt and pepper.
                  
2. In a big salad bowl mix the greens and onions with the oranges and the vinaigrette. Sprinkle with hazelnuts. Serve immediately.     

I would like to send some special thanks to my food blogger friend Karen from "Savoury Table" for the gorgeous spoons you see in the pictures. I just love them! Karen gave them to me as an early Christmas present. Thanks so much foodie friend.


The recipe is adapted from foodnetwork.com.