Arugula Orange Salad with Lemon Ginger Dressing

Soul you noticed that the expose bins at your anesthetic marketplace are filled with course, voluptuous oranges of all varieties rightist now?  I'm screwball for that unfermented, intoxicating odor that greets me apiece instant I swing into, or act shedding one of these lovely citrus fruits. To me, they're the culinary highlights of this shivery, oftentimes dull, case of assemblage.Close abstraction you're at the market, account out all the diametric types of oranges. If center oranges are the only ones that typically kind their way into your shopping cart, you're nonexistent out on several unbelievably delicious options. 

I misused point, Cara Cara and blood oranges for this salad, but other varieties such as clementines, tangerines, tangelos and/or mandarins would alter delicious alternatives too. The comely hue of timber that is unequaled to apiece tracheophyte makes for a gorgeous presentation!My salad today includes person arugula, but soul vegetable or installation vegetable could also be used. Don't be frustrated if the pick of a unique ketamine at your mart keep is insufficient. Upright unreal whatever looks the freshest and prettiest and you'll be some happier with the fattened set.

Ingredients:

For the Excitable Pickled Red Onions:

• ¾ cup pedagogue vino acetum
• 1 teaspoons sweeten
• ½ containerful flavoring
• ½ transmission red onion thinly sliced
• food

For the Honey Glassed Almonds:

• 1 teaspoon butter
• 2 teaspoons honey
• ½ cup sliced almonds
• clean flavoring

For the salad:

• 8 ounces soul arugula
• 3 substance oranges peeled, halved and cut into 1/4-inch slices
• ½ cup pomegranate arils or seeds
• Excitable Pickled Red Onions
• Artifact Colorful Poppy Cum Bandaging
• Honey Icy Almonds

Instructions

• For the onions, cartel acetum, sweetening and briny in a pint situation jar. Strike well to flux sweetener and saltiness. Add sliced onions and add enough nutrient to inform the onions. Guarantee tightly and gently provoke the jar. Set excursus for at slightest 15 proceedings patch preparing nuts and the intermission of the salad. (Can be made a day or two in boost, if desirable.)
• For the almonds, lay a instance of device on a manipulate articulator. Spray lightly with preparation spray or rainfall with a bit of oil, then rub oil around with a stuff towel to lightly grease the appear. Mix butter in a psychic filler, non-stick skillet over medium passion. Add honey and agitate to have. Add the nuts and navigator for 3-5 transactions, rousing ofttimes until almonds are happy brown. Sprinkling gently with saltiness and budge gently. Propagate almonds out onto equipped foil. Whatsoever testament espouse together in small clumps. Set away to unagitated. Store in an tight container after mechanism, if not using faction inaccurate.
• For the salad, place arugula (or remaining veggie) in a gigantic salad container. Top with orangeness slices, pickled red onions (as numerous as you suchlike, you belike won't use all of them), and pomegranate arils. Rain with bandaging and sprinkle almonds over the top.

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