Taco salad with cumin dressing
Yield: 8 Servings
Ingredients:
- 8 Tortillas;
- 2 tb Parmesan cheese; grated
- 8 c Romaine lettuce;
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 4 tb Red wine vinegar;
- 1/4 ts Black pepper
- 1/4 ts Garlic powder
- 4 ts Lemon juice
- 1 ts Powdered mustard
- 1 ts Ground cumin
- 1/2 c Water
- 4 tb Vegetable oil
- 4 c Turkey; chopped cooked
- 1 ts Cumin seeds
- 6 lg Ripe tomatoes; chopped
- 2 c Cheddar cheese; grated
Instructions:
Toast the tortillas on a baking sheet in a 400 F oven for about 10 min. While hot sprinkle on the Parmesan cheese. Cool and break into bite-size pieces. Chop the lettuce and arrange it in the bottom of a salad bowl. Make the cumin dressing by combining the salt vinegar pepper garlic powder lemon juice mustard cumin water and oil in a bowl or jar. Heat the turkey in a skillet with the cumin seeds. Sprinkle chunks of turkey over the lettuce. Add the tomato pieces and cheese. Pour on the cumin dressing and top with tortilla chips. 1/4 recipe - 411 calories 4 lean meat 1 bread 1 vegetable 2 fat exchanges 20 grams carbohydrate 33 grams protein 23 grams fat 870 mg sodium 617 mg potassium 88 mg cholesterol Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman 1986 Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier Nov 93.
