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

  California, raw

  1 fruit, without skin and seed or 136g

• Grenadine syrup

  3 tbsp or 60g

• Lettuce

  Butterhead (includes boston and bibb types), raw

  1 head or 163g

• 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 fresh ginger. Peel and pit avocado, then cut into thin slices. Separate lettuce leaves.
2. Whisk first 5 ingredients in small bowl to blend. Season dressing very generously with salt and pepper.
3. Cut off peel and white pith from grapefruits. Cut each grapefruit crosswise into 4 slices, then cut each slice crosswise in half. Arrange lettuce leaves on platter, tearing large ones in half. Top with grapefruit and avocado. Drizzle with dressing; sprinkle with salt and pepper.