Avocado, Pomegranate, & Cucumber Salad Alongside Maple Vinaigrette

Thank you lot to Pompeian for sponsoring creation of this delicious salad together with this post.  With Pompeian Extra Virgin Olive Oil, it's slow to whip upwards beautiful, healthful salads for the holidays similar this festively gorgeous Avocado, Pomegranate, & Cucumber Salad with my family's treasured Maple Vinaigrette.  And amongst Pompeian's slow online label maker, I tin sack set my Maple Vinaigrette recipe correct on the olive crude bottle!

Isn't this Avocado, Pomegranate, & Cucumber Salad absolutely gorgeous?  I'm totally enamored amongst the beautiful means the vivid crimson pomegranate seeds nestle into the light-green of all the other salad elements.  So pretty.  Like piddling crimson ornaments on a Christmas tree.

But it's non merely a pretty salad.  That would await slap-up on whatsoever vacation dinner tabular array {or non-holiday dinner table, too, for that matter.}

No.

It's also a actually tasty salad, too.  

Thanks inwards business office to my treasured menage unit of measurement recipe for Maple Vinaigrette dressing.  Having grown upwards inwards Vermont, I convey a really particular identify inwards my pump for pure Vermont maple syrup.  Other than pouring it out at nowadays from the jug over pancakes together with waffles, Maple Vinaigrette is my favorite means to relish maple syrup.

This Maple Vinaigrette is actually slow to make, too.  Big flavour for piddling endeavour don't you lot merely honey that?  Simply whisk together some pure maple syrup, fresh lemon juice, whole grain mustard, extra virgin olive oil, together with a pinch of salt.  That's it.  Done.

So easy.  So good. And it's made fifty-fifty extra delicious amongst the attention of Pompeian Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Okay, thence at nowadays I wish to portion amongst you lot something I intend is really, actually cool ... Pompeian's slow online label maker that lets us create our really ain personalized label for a bottle of Pompeian extra virgin olive oil! ... consummate amongst a menage unit of measurement photograph together with 1 of our  treasured menage unit of measurement recipes on it!!  

Here's the cute 'Harrelson Family Recipe' label I made for my Maple Vinaigrette ...

Isn't it sweet?

When it comes to sharing recipes, I intend this is merely virtually 1 of the most clever together with adorable things I've seen.  And what a clever gift thought ...

I thought I had my vecino Christmas gifts all figured out ... but I intend I'm going to convey to alter my mind.  'Cause at nowadays I'm thinking I'd similar to brand olive crude bottles amongst personalized recipe labels from Pompeian's label maker ... amongst my Maple Vinaigrette recipe on the label ... together with suit the personalized bottle inwards a handbasket amongst all the fixings for this gorgeous Avocado, Pomegranate, & Cucumber Salad ... a vivid crimson pomegranate, some avocados, an English linguistic communication cucumber, a piddling bottle of maple syrup ...

How neat would that be?

I'm certain you've got some slap-up gift ideas coming to hear for these personalized olive crude bottles, too.  Well, making your ain custom label amongst a cherished menage unit of measurement recipe together with menage unit of measurement photograph is easy.  Super  easy.

Just click hither to watch the Pompeian Label Maker ... click the 'Get Started' push at the bottom of their label maker page ...

Click to watch the Pompeian Label Maker

... larn into your menage unit of measurement recipe, ... upload a favorite menage unit of measurement photo, ... together with impress your label.  That's it!  Simply adhere your custom label to a 24 ounce bottle of Pompeian Extra Virgin Olive Oil for your really ain personalized olive crude bottle. 

Just inwards fourth dimension for vacation gift giving.  Sweet.

And together with thence cleft opened upwards 1 of those bottles of olive oil, whip upwards some of my Maple Vinaigrette, together with pour it over this gorgeous Avocado, Pomegranate, & Cucumber Salad.  I promise you lot relish it every bit much every bit our menage unit of measurement does!

Avocado, Pomegranate, & Cucumber Salad amongst Maple Vinaigrette

Source:  A Tracey creation
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
Salad:

• 1 head Boston Bibb lettuce
• 1 English cucumber, quartered lengthwise together with sliced
• 3/4 c. pomegranate seeds {approximately 1 pomegranate}
• 2 avocados, peeled together with cubed

Maple Vinaigrette Dressing:

• 1 T. Pompeian extra virgin olive oil
• 1 T. pure maple syrup {I move Vermont Grade B}
• 1 1/2 T. fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 T. whole grain mustard
• pinch salt
• chopped fresh mint {optional*}

Directions

1. In a small-scale bowl, whisk together extra virgin olive oil, maple syrup, lemon juice, whole grain mustard, together with salt.
2. Combine cucumber, pomegranate seeds, together with avocado inwards a bowl; pour inwards maple vinaigrette mixture. Toss gently to coat.
3. Place two or three lettuce leaves on private salad plates. Spoon avocado mixture on exceed of lettuce leaves. Sprinkle each serving amongst virtually a teaspoon of chopped fresh mint, if desired.

*Totally optional ... but I honey the piddling minty zing of flavour the fresh mint gives!

Enjoy!

Please relish Pompeian Extra Virgin Olive Oil amongst these other tasty salads from ...

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Shredded Brussels Sprouts Salad

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This is a sponsored post service written yesteryear me on behalf of Pompeian.  All opinions together with text are my own.