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Mandarine salad

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup sliced almonds
  • 1 tbsp + 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 11 oz. can mandarine oranges, chilled
  • 1/4 head lettuce
  • 1/4 romain lettuce
  • 1 cup chopped celery
  • 2 green onions, chopped
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp vinegar
  • dash pepper
  • 1/4 cup salad oil
  • 1 tbsp parsely

Directions

Heat almonds and 1 tbsp + 1 tsp sugar over the stove in a cast iron skillet. Cook until sugar coats the almonds and carmelizes. Cool on wax paper.

 

Tear up lettuce, romain lettuce. Add celer and green onions.

 

Mix dressing together: salt, sugar, vinegar, pepper, salad oil and parsely.

 

Toss together with oranges.


History

Aunt Julee and Aunt Margaret found this recipe when they were teaching nursing at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, back in the 1980s. They collected this recipe after a work potluck.