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Salad Wraps – Playful!

Do you ever feel the need for an antidote to heavy meals? Do you need something simple, refreshing and light to tide you over and fill you up? Meet the Salad Wrap. Take some lettuce as a wrapper, make veggies the star, and experiment with beans, grains, chicken, fish, meat, tofu, nuts, seeds. As for dressings,  try  an Asian Avocado one or my chef-sister Julia Richardson‘s Asian Peanut Sauce.…

ngredients 1 small seedless watermelon, diced 1/3 cup ricotta salata, freshly grated ½ small red onion, thinly sliced into half moons 1 cup basil leaves, roughly torn kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste 2 tsp. balsamic vinegar juice of ½ lime 2½ tbsp. extra virgin olive oil Directions Gently toss all ingredients and drizzle balsamic vinegar, lime juice and olive oil over top. Garnish with a few extra basil leaves.