

I often say that you eat a good salsa verde with a chip. You eat an amazing salsa verde by the spoonful! In fact an extra-creamy, delicious salsa verde can easily be used as salad dressing. Which is what I did here with some tasty results..

Verde. I made this salad a few weeks ago and haven’t forgotten about it. It is definitely worth trying if you are a “salsa verde” lover like me. My salsa verde-inspired dressing includes creamy avocados, roasted tomatillos and cilantro. Richness from the avocados swirls with juicy perkiness from the smoky roasted tomatillos and cilantro. I generously poured it over top a bed of chopped spicy-fresh arugula greens and some quickie marinated red cabbage slaw. On top, some sizzling strips of pepper-balsamic shiitake mushrooms.

You could take this salad one step further and add some sweet roasted corn, warm lentils, candied nuts, pinto beans, chipotle tofu or tempeh or even some