Cooking Article

For many
warmer weather means eating lighter and healthier. Here's a quick
new recipe for a Summer Delight Salad. The sliced almonds help to give it a Mediterranean accent.


Summer Delight Salad


3/4 cup Sunkistฎ Almond Accentsฎ Honey Roasted sliced almonds

8 cups torn spinach or mixed greens

1 (5-oz.) pkg. yellow teardrop tomatoes

1 cup quartered fresh strawberries

1/3 cup sliced red onion

1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese

raspberry vinaigrette dressing


In large bowl
toss half the Sunkistฎ Almond Accentsฎ Honey Roasted sliced almonds and the next 4 ingredients. Arrange onto salad plates; top with blue cheese and remaining Sunkistฎ Almond Accentsฎ Honey Roasted sliced almonds. Drizzle desired amount of dressing over salad.

Makes 4 to 6 salads.

Preparation Time: 10 min.

Almonds are nutrient dense
vitamin rich and have long been used to add flavor and crunch to dishes from different parts of the Mediterranean. Sunkistฎ Almond Accentsฎ are dry roasted with no added oil and have no cholesterol
no saturated fat
and just 1-2 grams of carbohydrates per serving. And now
using almonds in any dish may earn five lucky contestants a trip to Spain.

A Culinary Adventure

A seven-day
six-night epicurean adventure for two to Barcelona
including round-trip airfare
hotel
optional cooking lessons
food and wine tastings
excursions to wineries and local food producers and guided tours of historic sites
is the grand prize in a contest that celebrates the variety
flavor and health benefits that dishes that use almonds have to offer.

A Slice Of Spanish Flavor

Sunkistฎ Almond Accentsฎ will send five grand-prize winners of its Barcelona Culinary Sweepstakes on the all-expenses-paid trip for two to Barcelona
Spain.

Two hundred first prizes
consisting of a set of hand-painted
hand-thrown dishes
will also be awarded.