Featured Recipe: Fruit Salad Vinaigrette

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This recipe for Fruit Salad Vinaigrette is from Maison LaVigne in Harpeville, GA.

Prep time: 20 minutes
Serves: 8

Ingredients:

• 1 lb Driscoll strawberries
• 1/2 lb green grapes
• 1/2 lb red grapes
• 1 lb arugula
• 2 cups fresh orange segments, or drained canned mandarins
• 5 fresh basil leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon Mediterranean sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon peppercorn medley, ground
• 1/8 teaspoon Sugar in the Raw
• 1 fresh garlic clove
• 1/4 cup Alessi Raspberry Blush White Balsamic Vinegar
• 3/4 cup Spanish extra-virgin olive oil

Steps:

1. Make the vinaigrette by smashing the garlic and the basil leaves together with the mustard, salt, pepper and sugar, as if making a pesto. When very well mashed, add the vinegar and blend well. Drizzle in the olive oil, blending to make a vinaigrette.

2. Slice strawberries and mix together with washed and dried grapes, and orange segments.  Add 1/2 of the vinaigrette. Delicately stir the vinaigrette throughout the fruit.

3. In a separate bowl, mix remaining vinaigrette with the arugula and toss gently to coat. Place on a platter with the fruits and serve with quiche. Great also in little fruit cups.

By Emily Starbuck Crone