It is finally warming up here. The trees have budded and the lily of the valleys are poking their little bells up through the leaves. I am craving raw food instead of cooked food (yes, it changes with the seasons). Blackberries were on sale at my local market and I bought a couple of boxes! Blackberries go beautifully with walnuts but what really makes this salad is the Lime Ginger Vinaigrette with Shallot. It balances out the flavors beautifully and is is literally bursting with spring time flavor.
Blackberry Walnut Salad with Lime Ginger Vinaigrette
Vinaigrette
- 2 limes, juice and zest from (aprox 1/2 cup juice and 2 teaspoons zest)
- 3 teaspoons finely chopped shallots
- 1 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoon agave or raw honey
- Himalayan salt and pepper to taste
1. Whisk all ingredients together.
Salad
- 1 cup blackberries
- 4 cups lettuce
- 1/2 cup walnuts
1. Toss all ingredients together. Top with vinaigrette to taste.
*Serves 2. You will have leftover vinaigrette.
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Gorgeous! I want this salad now.
Anything with blackberries, and I’m there.
xo
Eco Mama
This salad will be my lunch tomorrow. I can’t wait to try the dressing! Thank-you.
Laura
Lovely salad. I’m moving into the season of salad myself. I WILL be trying this. I love all of the ingredients. I think I spied out some wild blackberry vines a few days ago. Those berries will be ripe soon.
I have all these blackberries but never thought to make a salad with them. Thanks for the great idea!
The vinaigrette sounds really interesting and the salad is simply gorgeous!
Beautiful, just beautiful.
We adore all berries.
Peace and Raw Health,
Elizabeth
You had me at walnuts! I can’t resist them, this salad sounds so perfect!
this looks great, most of the time my salad dressing is simply lime juice and olive oil, but I add fresh herbs like basil too sometimes. lately though I’ve been throwing in a bit of finely chopped ginger, it’s excellent…
so it’s fun to see all of this in your recipe..
Wow, this looks so delicious. I’m so glad Rawmazing is back in business! You never fail to inspire : )
This salad looks so delicious! I have a huge craving for blackberries, hopefully Ill get my hands on some soon so I can make this!
I never think to put fruit in my salad but all the fancy restaurants do and I love it then. Thanks for the idea!
Susan! Thank you for visiting my blog! I am certainly going to try this salad, it should be amazing! I’m going to check out the rest of your site.
OMG, this was so delicious I could hardly stand it. The dressing is about the best I have ever tasted. I was so full afterwards. Every mouthful was like MMM, MMMM, MMMMMM. This is going on my list of favourite salads.
Definitely one of my favourite salads to date! I agree, the dressing was great! Thanks for sharing!