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Nut, date and orange salad

A delicious salad with North African flavor. The combination of flavors and textures in this salad makes it a unique and tasty dish.

Ingredients

1 hd lettuce (wahsed and roughly chopped)
2 orange (peeled and sliced)
3⁄4 c dates (fresh, pitted and halved)
1⁄4 c walnut (shelled nuts, chopped)
1 lemon (the juice)
1 T sugar (brown)
  cinnamon (ground)
1 T orange blossom water
  seasoning (salt and white pepper)

Instructions

Place chopped lettuce in a salad bowl. Layer orange slices over the lettuce and then dates and chopped nuts.

In a small bowl, mix lemon juice, sugar, orange blossom water, salt and pepper with a fork. Pour this dressing over the salad.

Sprinkle ground cinnamon over the salad.

Total time
20 minutes
Cooking time
0
Preparation time
20
Yield
6 servings

Notes

Refreshing and very low in saturated fat.

Variations

Add some varied salad leaves to the lettuce.

Source

North African cuisine

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