Farmhouse Salad

This salad is a Bertucci’s copycat recipe for their farmhouse salad. It’s really refreshing and I hope you enjoy it. It’s important for this salad to make it petit dice. There is something about petit dice that makes this salad perfect.

Recipe:

1 Romaine Lettuce, chopped

1 green pepper, petit diced

1 purple onion, petit diced

2 Lebanese/ Persian cucumber, petit diced

1 cup cherry tomato, sliced

1/2 cup pearl mozzarella, drained from liquid

1/4 cup pitted blacked olives, roasted in the oven with oil

Dressing:

4 oz. olive oil

1 oz. balsamic vinegar

1 large clove garlic, crushed to fine paste

2 tsp dijon mustard

2 tsp honey

1/2 tsp salt and pepper

Balsamic Glaze for drizzling

Directions:

1. In a container or dressing bottle, add all the dressing ingredients and mix really well.

2. Wash all the salad ingredients and chop or dice according to instruction above.

3. In a small pan add the pitted black olives with a drizzle of oil and roast at 400 F for 5 minutes.

4. In a salad bowl, add a layer of lettuce. Then petit dice the vegetables and layer then in a row on top like the photo above.

5. Add the dressing on the salad than drizzle with the balsamic glaze.