Garden’s Bounty Salad with Verjus Honey Mustard Dressing

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Ingredients

This recipe features local produce from 9 Bean Rows Farm, Murray's and locally produced products from Food for Thought and Black Star Farms.
  • Farm fresh local eggs Local cherry honey mustard
  • Local wild star thistle honey
  • Local verjus
  • Scallion infused olive oil
  • Ground pepper
  • Sea salt
  • Farm fresh local mizuna
  • Farm fresh local lettuce
  • Farm fresh local cucumber
  • Farm fresh local radish
  • Farm fresh local carrots
  • Farm fresh local cauliflower
  • Farm fresh local leek Farm fresh local basil

Directions

Steam one-two eggs per salad for ten minutes in a covered medium metal sauce pan fitted with a metal steamer basket. Flip eggs to other side, cover pan and stem for ten more minutes. Cool steamed eggs in ice cold water for five minutes, peel eggs and cut eggs in half. In a glass jar, mix three tablespoons cherry honey mustard, three tablespoons honey, two tablespoons verjus, one tablespoon scallion infused olive oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Using a spiral slicer, slice one cup of cucumber per salad into long ribbons, one half cup of radish per salad and one quarter cup of carrots per salad. Per salad, remove one quarter cup cauliflower florets, slice one tablespoon leek whites and mince one tablespoon basil. Per salad, plate one cup mizuna, one cup lettuce, cucumber, radish, cauliflower and carrots. Place one-two eggs in salad, sprinkle with leeks and basil. Serve salad drizzled with one tablespoon verjus honey mustard dressing and sea salt.