Fresh and healthy salad with arugula, crunchy fennel bulbs, and sweet, juicy blood oranges tossed with a simple vinaigrette. Great for clean eating!
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Salad
Servings 2main dish salads
Ingredients
2Fennel bulbsgreens cut off
4Blood oranges
4cupsarugula
2tbspred wine vinegar
6tbspolive oil
1/4tspkosher salt
1/4tspblack pepper
3Aidells chicken apple sausage linksoptional, if serving as main course
Instructions
Cut fennel bulbs in half from root to end and slice paper-thin on a mandoline into U-shaped slices.
In a small bowl, combine vinegar, salt, and pepper. Drizzle in olive oil slowly while whisking constantly, or add in the oil and blend the dressing with a handheld milk frother.
Toss fennel and arugula in a large bowl with the dressing.
Cut blood oranges in half and cut off the peel and pith with a knife. Slice each orange half into three rings.
If serving as a main course, slice sausage links lengthwise into two halves and cook over medium high in a pan or indoor grill until charred on both sides.
Divide salad mixture between plates. Top with blood oranges and three sausage halves.
Notes
As a side dish or appetizer, this will serve 4-6, or as a main dish will make 2 very filling salads.Adapted from Salad of the Day.