Mandarin Orange Salad With Peanut Dressing Recipes

GLENDA'S MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD

Steps:

• Place the onion, sugar, mustard, celery seed, and black pepper into a small bowl. Pour in the vinegar, and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Whisk in the olive oil until the dressing is thick. Cover, and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
• To make the salad, toss the lettuce, oranges, mushrooms, almonds, and bacon together in a large bowl. Drizzle with the dressing, and toss again to coat.

ROMAINE AND MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD WITH POPPY SEED DRESSING

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
• Place vinegar, sugar, red onion, mustard powder, and salt into the bowl of a blender. Cover, and puree on high until smooth. Reduce blender speed to medium-low; slowly pour in the vegetable oil and blend until incorporated and the dressing is creamy. Stir in the poppy seeds and set aside.
• To serve, toss the romaine in a large bowl with the crumbled bacon, Mandarin oranges, and enough dressing to moisten. Place onto salad plates and sprinkle with toasted almonds.

MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD

Steps:

• In a jar or salad dressing container, combine the 1/4 cup oil, 2 Tbs sugar, 2 Tbs vinegar, 1/2 tsp salt, a dash of pepper and a dash of hot sauce. Whisk to combine and stir up / shake right before serving as the oil and vinegar will separate.
• Heat a dry pan over medium high heat on your stovetop. Add 1/4 cup sliced almonds to the pan and move pan in circular motions so the nuts move around and get toasted evenly. Keep an eye on the almonds so they don't burn! Once toasted and fragrant, transfer the toasted nuts to a cup or plate until you're ready to assemble your salad.
• Combine 16 oz fresh spinach with 1 15oz can drained mandarin oranges in a large salad bowl. Add the toasted almonds to the salad. Add as much dressing as desired to the salad and toss to evenly coat the spinach leaves.
• Serve immediately!

MANDARIN ORANGE VINAIGRETTE SALAD DRESSING

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Place the cider vinegar , mandarin orange juice, red wine vinegar (or balsamic vinegar), brown sugar, shallots, and kosher salt in a blender. Pulse to combine the ingredients.
• While the blender is running, very slowly add olive oil in a steady stream through the top opening of the blender.
• Transfer to a salad cruet or jar with a lid.
• Refrigerate any leftover vinaigrette for up to one week. After that, throw out any unused portion of this salad dressing.
• Enjoy.

MANDARIN SALAD INGREDIENTS

Steps:

• In a small pan over medium heat, heat almonds and sugar, stirring constantly until almonds are coated and sugar is dissolved. Watch carefully!! They will burn easily!
• Set almonds aside to cool on a piece of parchment paper and then store in an airtight container until ready to mix with salad.
• Mix the dressing ingredients together. I use a jar so that I can shake it all together and store in the refrigerator.
• Dice the celery and green onions and chop the romaine and iceberg lettuces.
• Throw everything except the oranges, almonds and dressing into a bowl and mix together. Just before serving, add almonds and oranges and drizzle with dressing. Toss to coat and serve!

MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD WITH PEANUT DRESSING

Steps:

• In a small saucepan over medium low heat whisk together the oil, peanut butter, 3 Tablspoons mandarine orange juice, lime juice, tamari sauce, ginger, garlic and sugar.
• Continue to whisk until sugar is dissolved.
• Remove from heat.
• In a large bowl toss together the sliced cucumber, onion, salad greens and orange segments.
• Add the salad dressing and toss well.
• Sprinkle with the peanuts and serve.

MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD WITH PEANUTS

Steps:

• Tear lettuce into bite-sized pieces and combine with oranges and peanuts in a large bowl.
• For dressing: Combine sugar, oil, mustard, slat, vinegar, onion and poppy seeds in a jar. Shake well to blend. Toss the salad with desired amount of dressing.

MANDARIN SALAD

Steps:

• Shake first 6 dressing ingredients in a jar and refrigerate.
• Stir almonds and sugar in a small pan over medium heat until sugar melts and starts to caramelize and almonds are very lightly toasted.
• Scrape into metal bowl and cool to room temperature.
• Break up and store covered at room temperature.
• Just before serving, put chopped lettuces in a large bowl.
• Add celery, oranges, onions and almonds.
• Shake dressing well and pour over salad.
• Toss to mix and coat.

MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD

Steps:

• Combine 1/4 cup white sugar, salt, pepper, vinegar and oil.
• Heat until sugar dissolves.
• Cool.
• Meanwhile cook almonds and 6 tsp.
• sugar over med-low heat in saucepan stirring constantly until sugar melts and almonds coated.
• Cool and break apart.
• Break apart lettuces into bite size pieces.
• Add thinly sliced celery, cut on diagonal and thinly sliced green onions.
• 5 minutes before serving toss with drained mandarin oranges, sugared almonds and cooled dressing.
• If desired can add a few pieces of chunked pineapple and top with a few crunchy chow mein noodles.

MANDARIN ALMOND SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the romaine lettuce, oranges and green onions.
• Heat 2 tablespoons sugar with the almonds in saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir while sugar starts to melt and coat almonds. Stir constantly until almonds are light brown. Turn onto a plate, and cool for 10 minutes.
• Combine red wine vinegar, olive oil, one tablespoon sugar, red pepper flakes and black pepper in a jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake vigorously until sugar is dissolved.
• Before serving, toss lettuce with salad dressing until coated. Transfer to a decorative serving bowl, and sprinkle with sugared almonds.