Green Salad with Maple Mustard

This recipe is really to highlight the super simple and delicious dressing-you can really use whatever greens and garnishes you like. I was super excited to make this because it’s the FIRST SPRING SALAD. It’s only April here in Vermont, so the first fresh farm vegetables feel extra special.

This combination of greens, nasturtium & pickled carrots gives the salad a great balance of spicy, tangy, crunchy & sweet. 

Ingredients

Maple Mustard Dressing:
1 Tbsp maple syrup
1 tsp dry mustard (or your favorite type of prepared mustard, like dijon)
1 tsp apple cider vinegar OR Root 5 Farm Fire Cider

Green Salad:
fresh greens
edible flowers (optional)
quick pickled carrots or radish

Method of Preparation

Add your dressing ingredients to a jar with a lid- feel free to add some spices, salt/papper, or hot sauce if you like that kind of thing. Sometimes I add garlic powder. 
Shake to combine- salad dressing DONE!

That’s it! This dressing is great on all sorts of dishes and you can adjust it to make it sweeter or more tangy depending on what you like. The maple mustard dressing is especially good on a salad with strawberries or apple slices.