Avocado & Blue Cheese Watercress Salad with Homemade Grapefruit Vinaigrette Dressing

One of my all-time favorite salads is mixed greens or spinach with avocado, blue cheese, and grapefruit. I usually toss a balsamic vinaigrette with it but decided to match the flavors of the grapefruit into this homemade dressing. This simple homemade Grapefruit Vinaigrette is sweetened by honey, a perfect balance to the tangy grapefruit essential oil and juice that makes up the acidic part of the dressing.

Mixing and matching flavors in a salad is a fun game for me. Playing this silly game resulted in this outstanding salad with a homemade grapefruit vinaigrette.

Here’s why it’s perfect:

• Crisp watercress and spinach.
• Creamy avocado.
• Bite-y red onions.
• Pungent blue cheese.
• Sweet grapefruit-tinted dressing.

Tossed altogether and you’ve got a perfectly mixed and matched flavor explosion!

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Avocado & Blue Cheese Watercress Salad with Homemade Grapefruit Vinaigrette Dressing

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Course: Salad

Cuisine: American

Keyword: avocado salad, grapefruit vinaigrette

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 2 people

Ingredients

• 1 small bunch watercress
• 6 oz. bag baby spinach leaves
• 1 large avocado seeded and diced
• 1 small red onion thinly sliced
• 15 oz. can grapefruit segments juices reserved
• 4 oz. blue cheese crumbles

Homemade Grapefruit Vinaigrette Dressing

• 3 Tbsp grapefruit juice from the can or 3 Tbsp fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 2 tsp honey
• 2 drops Grapefruit Vitality essential oil to taste (where to buy)
• Pinch of salt and pepper each

Instructions

• In a large mixing bowl, toss together the watercress and baby spinach. Add the diced avocado, sliced red onion and grapefruit segments. Toss in the blue cheese crumbles.
• In a resealable glass container, add the grapefruit juice, olive oil, honey and 1 or 2 drops Grapefruit essential oil, to taste. Add a pinch of salt and pepper each. Shake vigorously.
• Pour the vinaigrette over the salad and toss lightly.
• Serve Watercress Salad with Avocado, Blue Cheese and Homemade Grapefruit Vinaigrette Dressing.

Nutrition

Serving: 1salad | Calories: 774kcal

It also makes for a perfect mason jar salad recipe to take to work or school! I prep 5 mason jars on Sunday afternoon so that my lunch is ready all week long.  Use one recipe like this one or mix & match to keep the variety going.

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