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Lunch Food

The Best Vegetable Salad

A refreshing vegetable salad using all different kinds of vegetables. You can use whatever you like, but the tomatoes and cucumbers make it taste great. It is very much like an Israeli salad. The homemade dressing is very good for any green salad.

Ingredients

  • 5 romaine lettuce leaves, torn into bite size pieces

  • 5 radishes, chopped

  • 2 fresh tomatoes, chopped

  • 2 green onion, minced

  • 1 small jicama, peeled and julienned

  • 1 cucumber, peeled and chopped

  • 1 red bell pepper, chopped

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

  • 1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice

  • 1 tablespoon pomegranate juice

  • 1 ½ teaspoons water

  • 1 clove garlic, minced

  • 1 teaspoon chopped fresh dill

  • 1 teaspoon chopped fresh basil

  • 1 teaspoon salt

  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions

  1. Place lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, green onion, jicama, cucumber, and bell pepper in a large salad bowl.

  2. Whisk olive oil, lemon juice, pomegranate juice, water, garlic, dill, basil, salt, and black pepper in a small bowl. Drizzle dressing over the salad just before serving.