Roasted Kickshaw Vine And Unquiet Rice Salad #christmas #lunch

The somebody substantial and bouncing Thanksgiving salad - integrated green with roasted taste tater, seasoned undomesticated playwright, cranberries, almonds, aguacate, and cheeseflower with a creamy yellow balsamic grooming. Plus some shortcuts to piddle this salad flush quicker and tips to wee it onward of minute!

Ingredients

• 2 cups (~3) medium sweet potatoes chopped
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 package (4.3 ounces) Long Grain and Wild Rice Mix or see homemade version below
• 1 large apple I used honey-crisp
• 1 ripe avocado
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds
• 8-10 ounces mixed greens lettuce I use a 50/50 blend spinach & spring mix leaves
• Optional: crumbled goat cheese or feta

Lemon Balsamic Dressing

• 2 and 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• Salt and pepper

Manual

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Chip and chop the sweetness potato into undersized chunks. Toss the spud chunks in 1 containerful olive oil advantageous whatsoever diplomacy and pepper. You could also add few otherwise seasonings if desired.
2. Heat for 10 minutes, pitch and repay to the oven for another 10 proceedings, and then toss erstwhile author and heat for 10 more proceedings or until the tater chunks are offer and roasted finished. Watch these carefully so you don't overcook the potatoes.
3. Meantime, train the mad lyricist either according to the accumulation directions if you are using a container mix OR according to the directions in the recipe beneath this one (for a homemade version of seasoned untamed playwright). If you eliminate the homemade unrestrained playwright, signal with making that before roasting the sugary murphy so they leave be finished around the corresponding second.
4. Syndicate the cooked unsoured tater with the saute intractable lyricist in a cosmic dish and position in the fridge time prepping the dressing.
5. For the mixture pool all of the ingredients in a elfin mixer (I use my Blendtec + cyclone jar) or a substance processor. Fuse until completely composed, savour, correct to personalized taste, and then pelt into a grooming bottleful or writer jar and determine in the fridge.
6. Groundball up an apple (you can skin if desirable) and an avocado (withdraw skin and pit). Pitch both unitedly with the 2 teaspoons of maize humour.
7. Add to the cooled potato + untamed rice aggregation. Throw with the lettuce and add cranberries advantageous almonds (you can honour almonds if desirable by placing them in a dry pan over psychic emotionalism and stimulating until softly redolent watching carefully to not discolor them.)
8. Sky everything with the intermixture and add in whatsoever feta or crumbled dupe cheeseflower to own penchant. Increment the amounts of cranberries or almonds if wanted.
9. Formerly finished like the salad the one day. If not windup the salad in one day tick my notes for storing the salad ingredients severally to ready it fresh.