New Year Salad

Are you eating healthy for the new year? Try this salad as a tasty dinner side with grilled chicken or pork!

6 oz Butter Lettuce
1/4 C Dried Figs, sliced
1/4 C Sliced Almonds
1 Braeburn Apple
Lime Juice
Salt
Pepper
EVOO
Fig Balsamic

I have served this salad for a 'girl's night dinner' with marinated chicken kebabs. It was the perfect compliment to an easy healthy dinner. And, it has almost no fat!!

Add almonds to a small saute pan. Sprinkle with salt and toast for approximately 3 minutes until light brown. Cool.
If you are making this in the winter, you can use store bought lettuce, otherwise, use some fresh butter leaf lettuce from your garden or farmer's market. I use one bag of Dole Butter Bliss.
Add lettuce to bowl.
Chop apple into small bite size pieces.

Toss apple in 1 TBSP lime juice to keep apple from turning brown. Add apple to salad bowl with lettuce.
Slice dried figs and add to salad.
Add cooled almonds to salad.
Dress the salad with salt, pepper, EVOO (2 TBSP) and fig balsamic (3 TBSP). Toss and serve!

Are you looking for some delicious EVOO and balsamic vinegars?? Try out something local to RI, Narragansett Bay Olive Oil Company. The fig infused balsamic vinegar was what inspired this recipe. Visit them online at http://www.nboliveoil.com.