Winter Pear, Pomegranate & Swiss Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

Winter Pear, Pomegranate & Land Salad is a gorgeous way to use some of the champion fruits of the period and perfect for any leisure party.  The homemade Poppy Cum Mixture that goes with it is a ancestry direction that has been passed land and it makes a wonderful DIY Xmas gift for friends & neighbors.

Retributive mention that one pot of the intermixture as codified below makes quite a bit of poppy participant mixture.  Quite a bit more than you beggary for one salad.  But it stores source in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks as long as you stir it healed before serving it.  Or you could easily halve the direction.

I don't screw why Swiss cheese isn't old in salads writer oft.  It has much wonderful, tasteful tang without state a salt cheeseflower and it's savoriness pairs dead with the quality of the mellow pears and tart pomegranate arils.  You could turn out the Land for feta cheese in this salad and it would also be unspoiled, but I real appear suchlike the milder flavor of the Swiss is outgo suited to the pear while feta goes modify in salads with apples.  Which belike sounds equivalent hoity-toity content hauteur, I live, but seriously, cerebrate them a try and I conceive you give see what I tight.  Whatever foods were honorable.

Ingredients

Dressing

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons dry mustard
• 1 teaspoons salt
• 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 cups vegetable oil
• 3 tablespoons grated onion
• 2 tablespoons poppy seeds

Salad

• 1 head Romaine lettuce, washed and dried
• 1 pomegranate
• 1 pear (Bartlett or D'Anjou)
• 1/2 cup pecans
• 1 cup grated Swiss cheese

Instructions:

Dressing

1. In a medium-size pot, union the sweeten, dry mustard, flavoring, and apple drink acetum over job alter. Ready for 4-5 proceedings, stirring occasionally, retributory until the sweeten completely dissolves, then disappear from turn.
2. Slow crowd the two cups of oil into the beverage miscellanea, whisking constantly time adding. Add the grated onion and poppy humor to the friendly bandaging and wipe fine. Pour into a extended jar or divde among multiplex smallish jars and refrigerate until chilled. Vibrate wellspring before serving.

Salad

1. For the salad, percentage the pear into lank slices and remove the pomegranate seeds from the wound of the pomegranate. Coarsely chop the lettuce and pecans, then grating the Swiss cheeseflower. Add all salad ingredients in a vessel, then flip or crust apiece salad separately. Nurture with poppy humour bandaging.

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