Here's a vitamin-packed salad featuring oranges, avocado, and watercress, perfect for winter and early spring. It goes with just about anything else you're serving and can be made in minutes. Photos by Rachael Braun.
Recipe
Avocado and Orange Salad
Here's a vitamin-packed salad featuring oranges, avocado, and watercress, perfect for winter and early spring. It goes with just about anything else you're serving and can be made in minutes.
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Servings: 4
Calories: 108kcal
Ingredients
- 3 small sweet seedless oranges (see Note after recipe box), peeled and sectioned
- 1 medium firm ripe avocado, diced
- 1 cup diced jicama daikon radish, or turnip
- 1 cup loosely packed watercress leaves
- 1 cup or so shredded red cabbage or radicchio
- 1 tablespoon dark sesame oil or use tahini that's nice and fluid
- 2 tablespoons lemon or lime juice or to taste
- 1 teaspoon agave nectar
- Toasted sunflower or pumpkin seeds optional
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine the ingredients in a serving bowl and toss together. Serve at once.
Nutrition
Calories: 108kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 9mg | Potassium: 366mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 758IU | Vitamin C: 70mg | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 1mg
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Note: Use any small sweet orange that are seedless or don't have a lot of seeds, like clementines, mineolas, mandarins, etc. In pinch, use a 12-ounce can of mandarin oranges, drained.
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