Pickled Vegetables and Feta Salad with Herb Dressing
Ingredients
PICKLED VEGETABLES
- 1½ cups water
- 1 cup white wine vinegar
- cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 small red onion cut into matchsticks
- 1 large carrot cut into matchsticks
- 2 baby cucumbers sliced
- 7 small radishes thinly sliced
HERB DRESSING
- 3 tablespoons fresh dill
- 3 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ cup plain yogurt
SALAD
- 8 cups spring mix salad greens
- 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
- ¼ cup pine nuts toasted
Instructions
- THE PICKLED VEGETABLES: In a 4-quart saucepan, heat water, white wine vinegar, sugar, and salt to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil until sugar is completely dissolved, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in onion and carrot. Let marinate 20 minutes. Add the cucumbers and radishes, and set aside until the vegetables are softened, about 25 minutes more or longer if you prefer. Drain the vegetables, and pat dry on paper towels.
- THE HERB DRESSING: In a blender, puree dill, parsley, olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, honey, and pepper until very smooth, about 45 seconds. Transfer dressing to a small bowl and add yogurt; stir in until combined.
- THE SALAD: In a large serving bowl, gently toss together pickled vegetables and salad greens. Crumble feta onto salad, and top with pine nuts. Serve with the Herb Dressing.
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Jacqueline Plant
Jackie Plant freelances as a recipe developer and editor/food writer for magazines and websites such as Weight Watchers, Family Circle and Culture magazines, while contributing to the development of cookbooks. She has spent much of the past 20 years developing recipes and writing about food for national magazines, such as Parents, Country Living and Woman’s Day Magazine.
Tenaya Darlington
Tenaya Darlington teaches food writing at Saint Joseph’s University. She blogs at www.madamefromageblog.com and co-hosts tours with Cheese Journeys. While writing this post, she nursed a gin martini and nibbled a hunk of Pecorino Ginepro.
