Gluten-Free Recipes for Dinner



Orange Sauce

March 26, 2020

From Oonagh Williams of Royal Temptations Catering

This gluten-free sauce goes well with an Easter ham, chicken, waffles/pancakes, over a cake or with ice cream.

In my wheat flour days, I had skinny sweet potato fries with a dipping sauce of roughly equal quantities of butter, maple syrup and bourbon—it was dangerously addictive. This is a gluten-free variation that my husband and I enjoy. I normally keep a container of concentrated orange juice in the freezer, transferred to a screw top container as it doesn’t freeze solid. I use orange juice concentrate in various recipes using orange juice for a more intense flavor.

Gluten-Free Orange Sauce

Ingredients:

  • ½ stick, 2 oz butter 
  • ½ c orange marmalade – I use an orange marmalade that has thin pieces of orange peel, not the expensive thick and chunky marmalade. 
  • ½ c orange juice concentrate
  • ½ c chopped toasted nuts
  • 2 tbsp rum, brandy, orange liqueur, bourbon – whatever you like and can have. Optional but does give a lovely flavor. 
  • 2 tsp gluten-free cornstarch mixed with 2 tbsp water. 
  • Pinch of salt and pepper

Directions:

  1. Melt butter, marmalade and concentrate together.
  2. Add nuts and rum, etc.
  3. Simmer for a minute, add cornstarch and water mix, stir well, bring back to a boil, simmer for 2 minutes and then serve. This does reheat well, keeps in fridge.  Add it to the skillet of fried chicken, pork so it mixes with meat juices and sugars caramelize slightly. For meat, add some rosemary to pan or mint to go with lamb.
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Wine & Rosemary Beef

December 2, 2019

From Chef Oonagh Williams of Gluten-Free Cooking with Oonagh

Heading into the holiday season and then other get-togethers, I wanted an entrée easily made, with easily available ingredients. And then I saw packets of roasted, vacuum packed, organic chestnuts in my local chain grocery store. My father always made a chestnut stuffing to go with the roast turkey.  London at Christmas with gleaming bright Christmas lights across the streets and in shop windows on Oxford Street and all the other street names you recognize. Braziers of roast chestnuts giving off light and heat on a winter’s night, trying to peel a hot chestnut with gloves on and then burning your tongue with the lovely flavor are special memories.

I’ve always made my beef stroganoff with sirloin steak. Traditionally it’s made with beef tenderloin/fillet steak and cooks in minutes, but you need to take out a mortgage for the recipe for a party and also count on being able to get well butchered, matured beef for flavor and tenderness. Beef stroganoff is a very popular recipe with students and clients and one I have to always cook for certain clients. If you decide on this for a party, buy the beef sirloin when it’s on sale, trim it of fat, cut it up yourself rather than have the butcher do it and freeze ready to make a day or two in advance of the party. The flavor does develop and mellow if made in advance and helps you keep your sanity knowing another dish is prepared. 

Gluten-Free Wine & Rosemary Beef

Ingredients

6-8 portions when served as part of a meal with other dishes

  • 2 lbs boneless beef sirloin, trimmed. Slice into thin slices about 2-3” long x 1” wide x1/4”-1/2” thick. 
  • 2 medium onions, peeled and finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
  • 2 Tablespoons butter or olive oil 
  • ¾ cup orange juice 
  • ¾ cup Marsala wine 
  • ¾ cup gluten-free chicken stock
  • Zest of one orange, and then remove peel/skin of orange, segment and use for garnish
  • 4 x 4-inch stalks fresh rosemary
  • 2 3.5 oz bags of cooked, peeled chestnuts
  • ½ 10 or 12 oz tub of fresh mushrooms  
  • Cornstarch to thicken, as needed
  • Chopped fresh parsley
  • Salt and pepper

Directions

  1. Melt butter/olive oil in pan and gently cook onions and garlic until translucent. This sweetens the onions and garlic.
  2. Turn up heat, add beef strips, and sauté until strips are evenly brown or seared. 
  3. Add Marsala wine, orange juice, chicken stock, orange zest, rosemary stalks, salt and ground pepper, stir well, turn temp to as low as possible. Cover pan and simmer for at least 20 minutes until beef is tender. This can take up to 45 minutes depending on quality of sirloin, size of pieces and pan used. Use your slow cooker if you have one for cooking and reheating. Check that the pan is cooking at the lowest possible heat otherwise all the juices will evaporate away, leaving a dry mass. Add ½-1  cup water if going dry.
  4. Once meat is tender, increase heat, add mushrooms and quickly cook with meat mix.
  5. Dependent on amount of juices, thicken with cornstarch and let it cook for 2-3 minutes.
  6. Add chestnuts and let them simmer for a few minutes. If you add chestnuts too early, they break up, so you get the flavor but not the mouth experience of whole chestnuts.
  7. Remove stalks of rosemary, leaving just the needles, sprinkle with fresh parsley, and garnish with orange segments.

I have also made this with Angus beef bottom round, labeled for a pot roast. Cut off heavy fat, and cut into small cubes. Roughly 2 hours in 350 oven or 30 minutes in pressure cooker once it comes to pressure. 

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Cooked Cauliflower Rice and Cauliflower Rice Salad

August 29, 2019

From Chef Oonagh Williams of Gluten-Free Cooking with Oonagh

Cauliflower Fried Rice

Directions

  1. Break cauliflower in florets and cut off most of stalk. Stalk just doesn’t shred nicely.
  2. Rinse cauliflower, drain and pat dry.
  3. Put shredding blade into your food processor and shred cauliflower. It shreds into rice looking grains except for little pieces of stalk.
  4. Melt some butter and olive oil together in 9 inch skillet.
  5. Add finely chopped onion, half a red bell pepper deseeded and cut into small dice, 1-2 cloves garlic crushed. Cook over medium heat for about 3-5 minutes until softening.
  6. Add cauliflower rice, cook for about another 5 minutes until cauliflower is as cooked as you like it.

Variations

  • Add a knob of butter if you want, it really adds to taste.
  • Add a handful of fresh herbs and serve as a side dish.
  • Top with some nuts, cheese for meatless Monday.
  • Add hot peppers, pepper flakes.

Cauliflower Raw Rice Salad

  1. Break cauliflower in florets and cut off most of stalk.  Stalk just doesn’t shred nicely.
  2. Rinse cauliflower, drain and pat dry.
  3. Put shredding blade into your food processor and shred cauliflower. It shreds into rice looking grains except for pieces of stalk.
  4. Add some maple herb vinaigrette (below) to lightly moisten cauliflower rice.
  5. Add chopped, fresh tomatoes, including any juice, small diced cucumber, shredded carrot—really whatever you would normally add to a rice salad. Stir and serve.

Salad is crisp when freshly mixed, but cauli does soften if refrigerated overnight. But then you could stir fry it for fried rice. Lovely light crunch without the softness of rice. Stand over bowl eating before serving good.

Maple Herb Vinaigrette

Ingredients:

  • 1 Tablespoon white wine or red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar or fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard. You can also use honey Dijon, spicy for variation.
  • 2 Tablespoon maple syrup. I use stronger tasting maple syrup—Grade A medium amber. Use honey if you don’t have maple syrup.
  • 2 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 6 Tablespoon avocado oil or sunflower oil
  • 1/2 cup fresh parsley measured before chopping
  • Green of 4 green onion/spring onion, scallion stalks
  • Few celery leaves if you have them
  • Good pinch of salt to taste
  • Freshly ground pepper

Directions

  1. Put vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper and maple syrup in jug or 2 cup Tupperware style container or clean jam jar. Stir to dissolve salt etc.
  2. Add oils and fresh herbs. Run immersion blender to finely chop herbs. If you don’t have immersion blender then chop herbs finely with scissors and add to dressing. If you do use immersion blender, dressing will thicken and go almost white/green in color.  On refrigeration, olive oil will solidify and then revert to liquid at room temperature.

This dressing mellows on standing so that no one ingredient overpowers the others.  Try it this way first and then experiment with different vinegars, other fresh herbs but try less total quantity of herbs, add different mustards etc. Remember your taste for salt or sugar can be different to mine.

This is my go-to dressing, easily made, loved by everyone.  Please don’t substitute fake sugar or agave nectar. Maple syrup or honey add to taste, they’re not just a sweetener.

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Mardi Gras Dirty Rice

August 28, 2019

Recipe courtesy of ZATARAIN’S® 

Dirty Rice is a one-pot meal that starts with flavorful and easy-to-prepare Zatarain’s Dirty Rice, which can be customized to each guest’s unique tastes.

Gluten-Free Mardi Gras Dirty Rice
Prep 5 minutes/Cook Time: 35 minutes. Serves 7

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Heat oil in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add bell peppers; cook and stir 3 to 5 minutes or until tender-crisp. Remove from skillet. Add sausage to skillet; cook and stir 5 minutes or until no longer pink.
  2. Stir in Rice Mix and water. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 20 minutes. Return bell peppers to skillet. Cover and cook 5 minutes longer or until rice is tender.
  3. Remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes.

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Raspberry Wine Glazed Ham

March 21, 2019

Raspberry Wine Glazed Ham

A delicious gluten-free main dish that’s perfect for Easter

From Chef Oonagh Williams of Gluten-Free Cooking with Oonagh


T
his recipe (originally from Lithuanian Heritage magazine) would have been made with one of the hams, bone in, really thick layer of fat and skin and selling for about 79c/lb, versus the very expensive (and yes, delicious) spiral cut ham ($10/lb) from that chain that sells fancy hams. At my last Lithuanian cooking demo in March with an Easter menu, I was saying how my father and then I, would soak one of these cheaper hams for 24 hours, drain, fresh water and cook, then drain and finish in oven. This used to be the only type of ham that was available. One of the ladies said her mother always did it that way, so did she until her husband asked her why and she really didn’t know.
To get rid of excess salt–
she and her husband were happy to get a sensible answer.


Last year I bought for the first time, Carando labeled gluten-free, sliced, spiral boneless brown sugar and spice ham. $2.99 or $3.99 per lb, at my local Market Basket with long refrigerated shelf life. Remove red foil cover, then netting. Hold plastic vacuum wrapped ham over sink, cut open, drain off juices and then I put it in large ziploc bag on a dinner plate in fridge. I find that if you separate the spiral slices and immerse them in raspberry wine glaze and refrigerate for 1-2 days, they really absorb flavor of raspberry, wine and butter. Then gently reheat in sauce to serve. The ham darkens in color, remember raspberry glaze will stain white tablecloth.

Gluten-Free Raspberry Wine Glazed Ham

Ingredients:

  • ¼ cup dry white wine or sherry – I used Fetzer Gewűrtztraminer
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 2 teaspoons gf cornstarch
  • 1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam _ I use Trappist, ~$3 for 12 oz jar in my local store -Market Basket.
  • 1 tablespoon butter


Elsbeth, a German lady from my Lithuanian cooking demos, suggested adding 3 crushed Juniper berries (I buy juniper berries from Penzey’s –Nationwide mail order or stores) and one whole clove to deepen flavor as you make glaze, just remove them as you serve.


Roughly three times quantity, so more glaze for soaking slices of spiral cut, rather than glazing whole ham:

  • jar of seedless raspberry jam
  • 2 oz butter, I actually used a 4 oz stick last time.
  • 3/4 c wine
  • ¼ c lemon juice – ~1 lemon, genuine lemon please, not the bottled stuff.

Directions:


1. Preheat oven to 325*. Place whole boneless spiral ham in deep serving dish, If you are leaving the spiral ham whole.


2. In a small saucepan, blend wine and lemon juice with cornstarch.


3. Add about half the jam. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Stir in the remaining jam and butter. Heat and stir until butter and jam are melted.


4. Brush ham with the raspberry glaze. Bake in 325 * oven until glaze is bubbling and browning without burning- 15-30 minutes. Check internal temperature of ham. It needs to be cooked or reheated to 140*. Spoon any remaining glaze over ham. With a spiral cut ham left whole, you can ‘persuade’ the glaze to drizzle down between slices.


Remove from oven, let stand 15 minutes before serving. You can really taste the butter so don’t leave it out. Or just gently reheat the slices in glaze/sauce.

Or


1. Drain soaked raw ham, cover with fresh water, gradually bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer and cook for about 1-2 hours, timing from when the water boils (which could take almost an hour). This helps remove more salt (there seems to be more salt in cheaper cuts) and keeps ham moister during cooking, rather than drying out in oven. I normally only give the ham one hour in the oven to finish off with a glaze after simmering. With a fully cooked ham, I still prefer to soak it, change water and simmer for about 45 minutes, then finish with the glaze.

 

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Blackened Chicken with Grilled Peaches

January 14, 2019

Blackened Chicken with Grilled Peaches

Courtesy of Crunchmaster

Gluten-Free Blackened Chicken with Grilled Peaches


Ingredients:

  • 1 Cup Crunchmater® Multi-Seed Rosemary & Olive Oil Crackers, ground
  • 4 Fresh peaches, sliced
  • 1 Large apple, chopped
  • 1 Head bibb lettuce, torn
  • 4 Skinless chicken breasts
  • 1 tsp. Paprika
  • 1 tbsp. Ground pepper
  • 1 1/2 tsp. Sea Salt
  • 1/4 tsp. Cayenne pepper
  • 1 tsp. Dried thyme
  • 1 tbsp. Olive Oil, plus more for grill grates


Directions:

  1. Heat grill to medium-high heat; brush with olive oil. In a bowl, combine 1 Tbsp. olive oil, paprika, pepper, sea salt, cayenne, thyme and Crunchmaster® Crackers; rub olive oil mixture onto chicken and peaches.
  2. Grill chicken breasts and peaches for 4 minutes each, then flip and cook for another 4-6 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink inside and peaches have grill marks.
  3. Transfer to a serving platter; serve chicken atop a bed of Bibb lettuce with chopped apples and grilled peaches.


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Quinoa Cilantro Taco Salad

January 2, 2019

Quinoa Cilantro Taco Salad

Courtesy of Crunchmaster

Gluten-Free Quinoa Cilantro Taco Salad


Ingredients:

  • 1 cup Crunchmaster® Roasted Garlic Multi-Seed Crackers, crushed
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil
  • 1 tsp Apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • ½ tsp Chili powder
  • ¼ tsp Sea salt
  • 2 tbsp Poppy seeds
  • 1/3 cup Sunflower seed
  • 1 cup Quinoa, cooked
  • 4 cups Mixed salad greens
  • 5 Fresh chives
  • ½ cup Cabbage, shredded
  • 6 Cherry tomatoes
  • 1 Medium red onion, sliced
  • ½ cup Fresh cilantro, finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp Fresh parsley, finely chopped
  • 1 Medium carrot, cut into matchsticks
  • 1 Ripe avocado, peeled, pitted and sliced
  • 1 Papaya, cut into 1/4-inch slices
  • 1 cup Shredded mozzarella cheese


Directions:

  1. Combine olive oil, apple cider vinegar, cumin, chili powder, sea salt, poppy seeds and quinoa in a large mixing bowl; gently toss to combine.
  2. In a large serving bowl, add mixed salad greens; top with quinoa mixture. Add crushed Crunchmaster® Crackers and remaining ingredients; mix well.


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One Pan Robust Italian Chicken Sausage and Veggies

November 12, 2018

One Pan Robust Italian Chicken Sausage and Veggies

Recipe courtesy of Boar’s Head.

Gluten-Free One Pan Robust Italian Chicken Sausage and Veggies


Ingredients:

  • 2 cups baby carrots, havled
  • 2 cups baby red potatoes, havled
  • 1 whole zucchini, sliced
  • 2 whole red bell peppers, large diced
  • 1 cup asparagus stalks, sliced in thirds
  • 1.5 cups broccoli florets
  • 1 package Robust Italian All Natural* Chicken Sausage, sliced on the bias
  • 1/2 Tbsp dried basil
  • 1/2 Tbsp dried oregano
  • 1/2 Tbsp dried parsley
  • 1/2 Tbsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp dried thyme
  • 1/2 cup Boar’s Head Parmesan Cheese, grated
  • 4.5 Tbsp olive oil


Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Pour all the veggies and chicken sausage on sheet pan.
  3. In a small bowl combine all of the seasonings with the olive oil. Stir to combine.
  4. Pour the seasoning & oil mixture on top of the veggies and chicken sausage and thoroughly toss to coat.
  5. Roast for 15 minutes. Remove and toss the veggies & chicken sausage to ensure even cooking.
  6. Return to the oven for another 10-20 minutes or until veggies are browned and tender.
  7. Remove and top with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and fresh parsley.


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Boneless Stuffed Turkey Breast

October 29, 2018

Instead of whole turkey for Thanksgiving, try this stuffed turkey breast recipe for a delicious gluten-free twist on Turkey-Day…

From Chef Oonagh Williams of Gluten-Free Cooking with Oonagh

For my wedding, my father and I boned and stuffed five 30-pound turkeys. It’s actually easier to bone and stuff a turkey than a chicken. I’ve also made the ‘turducken’ – boned turkey, stuffed with boned chicken, duck and stuffing. Fun to do…once.

Instead of whole turkey for Thanksgiving, or just for less people, you can stuff a boneless turkey breast and cook it the day before. This takes much less time and stress than whole turkey. Then, you can also cook turkey legs and thighs in slow cooker or braise in oven to melting tenderness. Chilled, the stuffed, boneless turkey slices easily and can be reheated in gravy. It’s also excellent cold with salads.

Gluten-Free Boneless Stuffed Turkey Breast

Ingredients:

  • fresh or thawed, 7 lb hotel style breast, remove both breasts, or get butcher department to remove for you.
  • 2 cups gluten-free chicken stock
  • ¼ c sherry or wine – optional
  • Gluten-free cornstarch to thicken
  • 4 slices of gluten-free Oscar Meyer Center cut bacon or Jones Dairy Farm bacon, scissored into small strips
  • 1 small to medium onion, peeled and finely chopped
  • 1 Gala, Fuji or Braeburn apple, peeled, cored and finely chopped – like shredded cheese
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1 clove garlic, peeled and finely crushed
  • ½ c craisins – optional
  • ½ c chopped pecans – optional
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 2 tsp dried sage, ‘rubbed’ into small pieces – buy fresh in store in advance of Thanksgiving, and gently dry in oven or microwave. Store in glass jar.
  • ½ c fresh parsley, chopped
  • pepper
  • Gluten-free corn muffins, to total about 10-12 oz in weight broken into small pieces. Or make homemade gluten-free cornbread.

Directions:

1. Place bacon, onion, apple, garlic and butter in a microwave safe 6-8 cup jug  (I use pyrex/anchor hocking jugs) and cook in the microwave for a few minutes until bacon is giving up its fat and onion and apple are soft.

2. Add craisins and stir well so they start absorbing juices and plumping up.

3. Stir in herbs and freshly ground pepper, pecans. I personally don’t add salt since both bacon and corn muffins contain salt.

4. Mix in gluten-free corn muffins. I prefer the corn muffins to be broken into really small pieces not left as chunks.

5. Place the turkey breast on a chopping board. If the skin was left on, carefully remove it and retain. Cut breast in half lengthwise, almost all the way through and open the breast up like opening a book.

6. Place a sheet of plastic wrap on top and bottom of the meat and pound the meat as flat as you can without tearing.  If you bought turkey tenderloin, pound it flat. Or make individual portions or use boneless chicken breasts.

7. Remove top sheet of plastic wrap and spread stuffing out over all of the breast almost to the edges and use the bottom sheet of plastic wrap to help you roll the breast up like a jelly roll. Don’t roll the plastic wrap inside the meat. I spear the breast with about 4 short stainless steel skewers to hold it together – available in grocery store. Don’t use toothpicks, the wood swells and is difficult to remove.

8. Place the breast/s in roasting pan or large skillet, cover with retained skin if you have it and pour stock and sherry over meat.  Cover with foil or lid and bake in a preheated 350* oven, basting every 20 minutes for about 1+1/4 hours, but check at 45 minutes and again at one hour. Cooking time depends on coldness of meat going into oven, size of breast, oven temperature.  Check the temperature of the inside of the meat with an instant read thermometer.  It should read about 155/160*.  Remove from oven and allow to stand  and firm up, temperature will continue to rise.  Overcooking will make the meat very dry.

9. Thicken the juices and pour over slices of turkey. Reheat slices of cold turkey in the gravy the next day. Serve carved very thin as part of a cold buffet

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Mexican Salad

August 30, 2018

Mexican Salad

Spice up your lettuce with this delicious gluten-free spicy Mexican Salad…

From Chef Oonagh Williams of Gluten-Free Cooking with Oonagh

The key to this zesty recipe is the pepper jelly. There are quite a few varieties of pepper jelly on the market. You can also make your own pepper jelly by following the directions for pepper jelly in a packet of Certo pectin. Obviously there is a difference in both taste and heat between individual brands, so use half the stated quantity of pepper jelly to start with and then add more to your individual taste. Even if you used exactly the same pepper jelly as I did, your taste could want more or less heat. Also realize that the vinaigrette tasted on a spoon will taste far hotter than once it is mixed with a salad. The sweetness of the jelly mellows the vinaigrette and makes a vinaigrette with a sweet spicy but mild kick. Just enough to realize the heat without your nose running and lips tingling madly.

Gluten-Free Mexican Salad

Ingredients:

Vinaigrette:

  • 2 tbsp (30ml) gluten-free hot pepper jelly placed in small microwave safe bowl and melted in microwave 10-20 seconds. I like to clean, sterilize and reuse jam jars for these sauces as you can see what’s in them in the fridge. I buy Trappist Hot pepper jelly.
  • 1 tsp (5 ml) honey
  • Zest of 1/4 lime
  • 2 tbsp (30 ml) fresh lime juice – about ½ to 1 lime. Half of a lime can produce only about 1+1/2 tablespoons of juice, you need to add more to total 2 tablespoons. The extra little bit of lime does make a difference in taste for me.
  • ½ teaspoon salt (or more or less to taste)
  • freshly ground pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup avocado oil (120 ml)
  • 2 teaspoons (10ml) Koops Arizona heat mustard, labeled gluten-free
  • green of 2 green onions
  • about 2 tablespoons of fresh parsley and/or cilantro

Salad:

  • Deliberately leftover, 2 corn on the cob, roasted or bbq’d and niblets cut from cob
  • Shredded romaine or other lettuce, enough for 4 people
  • Tomatoes, either large cut up, or small grape or cherry
  • 1 ripe avocado, halved, depitted and cut into small dice
  • Mexican cheese of your choice, shredded or crumbled
  • Gluten-free salsa of your choice for heat
  • ½ red pepper deseeded and cut into ½” dice – optional
  • ½ c cooked chick peas – optional
  • fresh cilantro chopped – optional
  • Whatever other salad ingredients you personally like
  • Tortillas – I like the crunch of Tostitos, labeled gluten-free, crushed a little
  • I got real lobster salad at the market – that was fabulous, but salad shrimp, cooked chicken, spicy sausage, pulled pork without sauce. Or an egg and it can be vegetarian

Directions:

1. Mix all vinaigrette ingredients together, lightly pulse with immersion blender to chop herbs and also thickens vinaigrette and leave for about 1 hour for flavors to blend together.

2. On individual plates or one large platter, attractively arrange lettuce and top with circles of tomatoes, avocado, red pepper and any other salad ingredients you think would be suitable. Top with crushed chips just before serving.

3. You can also leave shrimp, chicken, in 1/4 c vinaigrette for an hour to absorb flavor. Then pour shrimp, chicken and vinaigrette on top of salad.

Vinaigrette keeps in fridge for several days. If you used olive oil it will appear solidified, like melted butter chilled.


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