Blackberry Pear Salad with a creamy lemon vinaigrette, pistachios, and tiny edible lemon slices.
This is a light and summery salad for all occasions! It pairs well witha slice or two of Soft Fluffy French Bread or Sourdough Discard Crackers if you're feeling fancy!
Blackberry Pear Salad
Blackberry Pear Salad is a copycat recipe for a Tre Sorelle salad from an italian style restaurant back home, Pizzeria Limone. Crunchy pistachios, purple onions, fresh basil and fresh parmesan cheese complete this masterpiece. It's traditionally made with three different kinds of cheeses: asiago, pecorino romano, and parmesan. Parmesan alone will work just fine for this salad and it's what I prefer. It's got lots of color and a citrus vinaigrette, just like Spring Roll Salad.
Ingredients for Salad
It's a simple mix for the fresh greens. You can use a spring mix or a combination of romaine, spinach, and basil.
- Romaine lettuce, spinach, and basil - can be substituted with a spring mix salad.
- Purple onion
- Pistachios
- Blackberries - fresh
- Pears- fresh
- Lemon - juice and zest of
- Parmesan cheese - fresh please!
- Olive oil
- Mayonnaise
- White wine vinegar
- Honey
- Mustard - optional but delicious
- Salt & pepper
How to assemble:
It's so simple to assemble this easy summer salad recipe! I broke it down into simple steps.
- In a large bowl combine romaine, spinach, onion, pears, blackberries, pistachios, parmesan, tiny sliced lemons, and chopped basil.
- Make vinaigrette by combining lemon juice, olive oil, mayonnaise, white wine vinegar, honey, mustard, and salt and pepper. Whisk it well and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Oil doesn't play well with most liquids, so honey, mustard, and mayonnaise are used as emulsifiers to help coat and bind the oil molecules to the other liquids in the dressing so that they won't separate. Whisk ingredients together vigorously for a few minutes, or I highly recommend blending the dressing for thirty seconds to make it creamy and smooth.
Tips for the best blackberry pear salad:
- Fresh fresh fresh ingredients! I can't single out one ingredient because even the parmesan should be fresh and not the sprinkle canned kind I sometimes like to use for pasta. Same with the lemons. Don't settle for bottled juice!
- Use good quality extra virgin olive oil.
- Make sure everything is sliced thinly. The pears, the onions, the basil, the lemons, and the grated parmesan.
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Blackberry Pear Lemon Salad
Blackberry Pear (Tre Sorelle) Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette is a favorite copycat recipe for a healthy, light, party style salad.