After one bite of this main-dish, Arugula Citrus Salad, you’ll forget about the cold. Arugula, blood oranges, fresh mint sprigs, avocado, shrimp, wasabi covered almonds, and crumbled bleu cheese pair deliciously with a homemade vinegar based dressing.
Winter vegetables can be just as amazing as their warmer-weather counterparts and this Arugula Citrus Salad is the proof. This salad can be whipped up in no time and served with your favorite dinner roll or a baguette as the main course. Everyone in my family is a big seafood eater and this is one of our favorite recipes. It is so tasty and filling and gets me out of the kitchen and enjoying dinner in a flash. I am all about the easy dinner.
- 4-5 cups arugula
- 3 blood oranges
- 4 fresh mint sprigs
- 1 ripe avocado, pitted, peeled, and cut into 8 segments
- 1 pound cooked, peeled shrimp
- wasabi covered almonds
- crumbled bleu cheese
- salt and pepper
- DRESSING:
- ¼ cup white vinegar
- ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- Squeeze the juice from a blood orange into a small bowl.
- Add white vinegar, olive oil, and mustard. Whisk and season with salt and pepper, set aside.
- Cut the remaining blood oranges in half, crosswise, and then cut away the peel.
- Cut the orange into segments, and set aside.
- Divide arugula on dinner plates and sprinkle each with the leaves of one mint sprig.
- Top each with avocado, blood orange segments, shrimp, and a dash of salt and pepper. Drizzle each with dressing and finish with bleu cheese and almonds.
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