Pomegranate Wild Rice Salad

Ingredients:
vinaigrette:
three tablespoons pomegranate juice or PAMA
ii tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon ruby vino vinegar
salt
pepper


salad:
ii cups cooked wild rice, cooled
1 loving cup thinly sliced fennel
1 loving cup pomegranate arils
1 shallot, really thinly sliced
1 stem celery, really thinly sliced

Directions:
Whisk together the vinaigrette inwards a pocket-sized bowl. Set aside. Toss together the salad ingredients. Stir inwards vinaigrette. Serve at room temperature.

Quick Tips: If y'all accept one, a mandoline makes quick run of thinly slicing the vegetables. I bought this cheap mandoline final twelvemonth as well as it industrial plant well.

I similar to brand the wild rice for this salad the 24-hour interval before. Refrigerate it hence fluff it amongst a fork earlier adding the remaining ingredients.

My thoughts:

This is a bully belatedly tumble or wintertime salad. Pomegranates are at their peak as well as fennel is widely available. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of recipes telephone phone for mixing wild rice (which genuinely isn't rice at all merely a sort of marsh grass) amongst long grain rice merely I prefer it yesteryear itself, specially inwards a salad. I dear how the nutty season as well as chewy texture contrasts amongst the juicy pomegranate as well as crisp vegetables. I dear the outburst of season the arils provide. While I similar it equally a side salad, it is hearty plenty to serve equally primary dish.