Grapefruit and Avocado Salad with Ginger-Cassis Dressing

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  3 tbsp or 41g

• Shallots

  Raw

  2 tbsp chopped or 20g

• Avocados

  Raw, All commercial varieties

  1 fruit or 201g

• Grenadine syrup

  3 tbsp or 60g

• Lettuce

  Romaine or cos, raw

  1 head or 626g

• Grapefruit juice

  Pink, raw

  2 fruit yields or 392g

• Red wine vinegar

  4 tsp or 20g

• Ginger root

  Raw

  2 tbsp or 12g

Directions

1. Peel and grate the fresh ginger. Peel and pit the avocado, then slice it thinly. Separate the lettuce leaves.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, shallots, grenadine syrup, grapefruit juice, and red wine vinegar. Season the dressing generously with salt and pepper.
3. Remove the peel and white pith from the grapefruits. Slice each grapefruit crosswise into four slices, then halve each slice. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a platter, tearing large ones in half. Top with grapefruit and avocado, drizzle with dressing, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.