With dark leafy greens, fruit, and flower blossoms, this colors of the rainbow salad is as delicious as it is beautiful.
The Story:
Fourth of July weekend, we returned to our friend’s house to pick blueberries. Lots and lots of blueberries. We also picked some red and black raspberries and several bouquets worth of daylilies. With the red, orange, and blue bounty, as well as the number of purple chicory flowers I’d seen all over, I knew I could make a salad with nearly every color of the rainbow.
Colors of the Rainbow Salad
Ingredients:
Red- 4 medium strawberries, destemmed and sliced into slivers
Orange- 6-8 daylily flowers, dehydrated
Yellow- 2 summer squash blossoms, stems cut off and sectioned
Green- 4 cups dark leafy greens such as various lettuces
Blue- 30 blueberries (~ cups)
Purple- 7-8 chicory (or radicchio) flowers
Directions:
Lay down a bed of dark leafy greens. Fan out squash blossoms on top. Place daylily flowers. Distribute strawberries. Spread blueberries throughout the salad. Finally, arrange chicory blooms to achieve desired visual effect.
Serve with favorite salad dressing or vinaigrette. Philip and I split this salad and I used Panera Bread’s Fuji Apple dressing while Philip used Litehouse’s Sweet Onion with Dijon. Both were delicious.
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