Mesclun, Alpine Strawberry Salad Recipe
A luscious summer salad recipe using fresh from the garden mild mesclun salad greens and just picked Alpine Strawberries. I used to make this salad with standard strawberries, several years I
switched when I started growing Alpine Strawberries. You can substitute standard strawberries for the alpine strawberries but you will loss some of the flavor this combination creates. Freshly picked Alpine Strawberries have a delicate almond undertone and are packed with flavor and sweetness. I like to serve this salad for lunch with premium Gouda cheese and French bread or use as a dinner salad with seafood entrees. 1 tablespoon organic extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon raspberry wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
2 cups organic mild mesclun green salad
2 tablespoons chives, sliced 1/2-inch
12-15 freshly picked Alpine Strawberries
2 tablespoons pine nuts
Salt and pepper, to taste
Wash and drain alpine strawberries and set aside.
Whisk together in a small glass bowl olive oil, raspberry wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper; set aside. In a medium glass bowl combine mesclun greens, chives, alpine strawberries and pine nuts.
Arrange mixed mesclun greens on 2 salad plates. Drizzle with oil and vinegar mixture and serve with sliced Gouda cheese at room temperature and thick French bread topped with minced garlic and drizzled with organic olive oil. Serves 2.
About the ingredients in this salad recipe:
Alpine Strawberries: Alpine strawberries are little strawberries packed with sweet strawberry flavor and with mild overtones of almond and vanilla. A French delicacy, Alpine Strawberries are very easy to grow, extremely hardy and will produce petite strawberries all season long. Alpine strawberries can be difficult to start from seed but you can purchase pesticide-free Alpine Strawberry plants at Farm Fresh Living for shipment anywhere in the continental United States. A perennial plant, once you have Alpine strawberries growing in your garden on in a container on your patio, they will come back year after year.
Mesclun salad greens: Mesclun is a salad mix of assorted small, young salad leaves. The mix varies depending on the source, but it may include lettuces, spinach, arugula (rocket), Swiss chard, mustard greens, endive, dandelion, frisée, mizuna, oak leaf, mâche, radicchio, sorrel, and/or other leafy vegetables.
