Apple Salsa

From Cooking Light October 2010. Great with corn chips or fresh corn tortillas. Serve with pork or roast chicken if you eat meat, or a bean taco if you don’t.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups diced, peeled apples
  • ½ cup diced red pepper
  • 1/3 cup fresh lime juice
  • ¼ cup diced red onion (try substituting some green onion from the bag, too)
  • ¼ cup minced fresh cilantro
  • 1 Tbsp honey
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp freshly ground pepper
  • 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
Method:
  1. Combine all ingredients, stirring well.

Mixed Green Salad with Apple, Fig, Nuts and Cheese

This is a lovely seasonal salad to enjoy when the end of the fig season coincides with the beginning of the apple harvest.  I serve it dressed with a vinaigrette made with apple cider vinegar, but use any type of vinaigrette you have on hand, homemade or not.  Instead of using toasted nuts you might substitute sweet or spiced nuts— you can find them at Trader Joe’s.

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