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This salad was served at a sheva brachos in Cleveland last year, which my friend, an aunt of the chassan, attended. When she told me about the fantastic salad, she also mentioned nonchalantly that the young couple was coming to Israel and would be temporarily homeless until their apartment was available. I offered my guest room to the new couple (whom I had never met!) and we ended up hosting them for three weeks! Anyway, back to the salad: After my friend’s insistence that I try it, I finally acquiesced. What can I say; it really is delicious! The dressing is superb and the crackers add a good crunch to the dish. By the way, mazel tov to the chassan and kallah of my story, Yosef and Layah, on the birth of a baby girl!
1 package cut-up lettuce (a mix is fine) plus 1 bag romaine lettuce cut up (or torn by hand)
generous handful grape or cherry tomatoes, cut in half
4 cucumbers, diced
approximately 5 sesame flatbread crackers, broken into small pieces
1 clove garlic (fresh or 1 cube Gefen Frozen Garlic) or 1 and 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon sugar (I prefer light brown)
1/2 cup oil (see note)
squeeze of mustard (a drop)
1 teaspoon Glicks Soy Sauce
2 teaspoons Gefen Vinegar
3/4 teaspoon salt
pepper to taste
Mix salad ingredients in a large bowl. Crackers can be added at this point, or used later as a garnish.
Mix all dressing ingredients together. Pour dressing over salad right before serving, or serve it on the side. This dish looks especially festive served on individual plates with the dressing and crackers in separate bowls/serving pieces in the center of the table. You can be creative with the cucumbers and cut them into waffle shapes (using a special salad cutter) or matchsticks (with an “alligator”).
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delicious recipe but too much oil Any way to cut down on the oil here? The dressing tastes great, but there’s way too much oil. I’m finding it impossible to mix everything in, and most of the dressing container is just oil.
Here is a Variation: modify the dressing as follows: instead of 1/2 cup of oil, use one tablespoon oil (this is not a mistake!) and seven tablespoons water. I make it this way all the time and it’s scrumptious like this. The flavor is not compromised at all!
That is amazing!