Fruit & Spring Green Salad with White Chocolate Orange Vinaigrette

Ingredients:

Salad Ingredients:

  • 1 15-oz. can mandarin oranges
  • 1/2 cup cranberries, dried, plumped in chardonnay wine
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, broken, candied
  • 4 apples, granny smith, peeled, diced, lightly sautéed in olive oil
  • Olive oil
  • 1 quart spring greens

Dressing Ingredients:

  • 1/4 vinegar, champagne
  • 1/3 cup Mandarin orange juice
  • 1/4 tsp salt 
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 cup white chocolate chips
  • 3 tbsp olive oil

Directions:

  1. Drain the oranges and reserve juice.
  2. Plump the cranberries and set aside.
  3. In a small sauce pan over low heat combine the vinegar, juice, salt and sugar.
  4. Gently heat until sugar is dissolved.
  5. Remove from heat and stir in white chocolate until melted.
  6. Set aside to cool but do not refrigerate as white chocolate will set.
  7. Whisk in olive oil.
Serve dressing on the side. 

Servings:

Serves 8

Source: NCA’s Chocolate Council and Levy Catering for McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill.