Butter Lettuce Salad with Pine Nuts and Herbs

Name: Butter Lettuce Salad with Pine Nuts and Herbs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: ¼ cup pine nuts; 1½ teaspoons Dijon mustard; 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar; 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; ¼ teaspoon kosher salt; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1 head butter lettuce; ¼ cup fresh flat leaf parsley leaves; 2 tablespoons fresh tarragon, snipped with scissors

Active Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Serves: Serves 4

Vegan Gluten Free

Butter Lettuce Salad with Pine Nuts and Herbs

Ingredients

¼ cup pine nuts
1½ teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 head butter lettuce
¼ cup fresh flat leaf parsley leaves
2 tablespoons fresh tarragon, snipped with scissors

Instructions

Place the pine nuts in a small skillet over medium heat and cook, stirring or tossing often, until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl to cool.
In a small bowl, whisk together the mustard, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper (12 turns on pepper mill).

Wash and dry the lettuce.Tear into bite-size pieces (you should get about 8 cups) and add to a large bowl. Wash the parsley and tarragon and pat dry with paper towels. Add the parsley leaves to the lettuce. Using scissors, snip the tarragon into small pieces and add. Add the pine nuts and vinaigrette and toss well.

step by step

/01/

Add ¼ cup pine nuts to a small skillet over medium heat.

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Cook, stirring or tossing often, until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes.

/03/

This is what the pine nuts look like when they’re done. Transfer to a small bowl (you don’t want them to burn by leaving them in the hot skillet.)

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In a small bowl, combine 1½ tsp. Dijon mustard, 1 tbsp. red wine vinegar, 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, ¼ tsp. kosher salt and ¼ tsp. black pepper (12 turns on pepper mill).