Blue Cheese-pecan-avocado Salad With Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (6 ounce) bag butter lettuce (i like the kind with radicchio in it for color)
• 1/2 cup pecans, toasted (sometimes i use spicy candied pecans that i get from trader joe's)
• 1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled
• 1 avocado, diced
• 1 small garlic clove, minced (optional)
• 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon honey (scant)
• black pepper
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

Recipe

• 1 dressing: whisk together garlic, mustard, honey, and pepper.
• 2 whisk in vinegar and then oil.
• 3 taste and add more mustard, honey, or other ingredients if necessary to your liking. set aside.
• 4 in a salad bowl, combine lettuce, pecans, blue cheese, and avocado.
• 5 add dressing and toss to combine.