Pogue'S Red

22 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • First dressing
  • 1/4 cup white vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons linden honey
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice, Meyer preferred
  • 2 teaspoons dijon mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon milled mixed peppercorns
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2-1 head of roasted garlic head
  • 1/2 cup EVOO, cold first pressed
  • Salad with red finish
  • 6 smallish beets
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 ounces baby arugula
  • small red onion, half moon paper thin slices
  • 1 avocado, diced
  • lemon wedge
  • 2 ounces shelled pecans
  • 5 ounces aged balsamic vinegar
  • 6 ounces raspberries, divided
  • 2 ounces Maytag blue cheese
  • pinch of pink Himalayan salt
  • pinch of fresh milled mixed peppercorns

Directions

  1. 1
    Ahead of time in a shallow roasting pan, add 2 tbl. of olive oil. Preheat oven to 350. Roll the unpeeled beets and garlic head around in the oil in the pan. Cover and roast for about 45 minutes, or until a knife can be inserted easily into the largest beet. Let cool. Skin the beets then.
  2. 2
    Squish out the contents from the roasted garlic head. Add to a jar. Then combine with the other ingredients from the first dressing. Shake well to create an emulsion. Taste and adjust the seasoning as needed for sweetness, saltiness, and acidity.
  3. 3
    Close to serving time combine the arugula, diced beets, onion half rings, diced avocado and about 2 oz. of the fresh raspberries in a large bowl. Adding a tablespoon at a time, lightly dress the salad with the vinaigrette until the arugula leaves are just coated. Do not drown. You may have dressing left over. Add a squeeze of fresh lemon.
  4. 4
    Heat a pan and toast the pecans. Set aside. In the same pan add 4 oz of raspberries with the balsamic vinegar on moderately high heat. Reduce by about 1/3.
  5. 5
    Add the toasted pecans and crumpled blue cheese to the salad. Drizzle the warm reduced raspberry balsamic on top of the salad as the final touch with a pinch of pink Himalayan salt and fresh milled peppercorns.

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