Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce
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Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce
Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce
This week on Food Files, I bring you another healthy dish – Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce. What I love about this dish is that it is quick and easy to make. You can vary your sauce, create it from scratch, or use any of the delectable gourmet sauces from Robert Rothschild Farm. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’d know that the East Coast of the US has been pummeled by snow for the last 2 weeks or so. When folks are snowed in, one thing they do, amongst many other activities, is to cook a tasty meal; ideally a warm meal. I was tinkering around in the kitchen and I wanted a healthy dish that was easy and warm. I had a basket full of Gala, Pink Lady, and Fuji apples and I thought they would go well with a salad. I checked out my veggies and decided to heat up some mixed veggies and add them to the mix. Then the sauce idea occurred to me and … Voilà! … the recipe below.
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Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce
Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce – Ingredients
INGREDIENTS:
6 Apples cored and diced ( I like Gala, Pink Lady, Honey Crisp, and Fuji)
1/4 Teaspoon coarse Kosher Salt or Sea Salt (or sprinkle to your taste)
1 cup each of diced Carrots and Green beans,
1 cup each of Peas and Corn
Robert Rothschild Farm Chili Lime Sauce
Serves 4
PREPARATION:
Prep Time: 5-10 minutes
Ready to Eat: In 10-15 minutes
Heat/steam the veggies on the stove till they are cooked to your taste. I like mine crunchy. Drain and set aside. In a large mixing bowl add the diced apples, 1/4 teaspoon of Kosher salt, the cooked veggies, and 3-4 Tablespoons of the Chili Lime Sauce. Mix the ingredients well with a metal or wooden spoon and serve while warm. The combination of the cold apples and the warm veggies with the tangy, spicy lime sauce is a dish to savor. In case you were wondering, the Chili Lime Sauce has the following Ingredients: (Water, Cider Vinegar, Onions, Sugar, Canola Oil, Garlic, Lime Juice (from concentrate), Cilantro, Salt, Chipotle Peppers, Cumin, Thyme, Xantham Gum, Black Pepper, Crushed Red Chili Peppers, Oregano, and Citric Acid). My Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce can be eaten as a main dish with Avocado slices and a protein of your choice or as a side dish with Pasta, Rice, Quinoa, or any grain you love. Enjoy! Bon Appétit!
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Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce – Ingredients
Food Files: Apple Salad w/ Chili Lime Sauce – Ingredients
What I love about gourmet sauces is that they use excellent and/or organic produce for the mixes. Often they are low-fat and delicious. Another sauce I love from the company is their Pineapple Coconut Mango Tequila Sauce and I will be presenting you with a dish made with that sauce soon. Look out for my delicious recipes coming your way. If you love using sauces, Robert Rothschild Farm offers a wide range of sauces/mixes and recipes you can try. Here are a few Chili Lime Sauce Recipes from their site. Let me know what you think. Do you prepare dishes with sauces? What type of sauces do you like? Do share.
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Oh! That looks so tasty.
Yes, it is! 🙂
That looks delicious……. 🙂
It is quite delicious! 🙂
That is an interesting combo. I could go for some of that. It sounds light and refreshing.
Not only does this look so yummy, I love how healthy it is too!
That looks delicious! I’ve never tried a salad like this, and I can’t wait to see if it tastes as great as it looks!
It’s a palate teaser/pleaser; savory and sweet, warm and cold, spicy and tangy… Yum! 🙂
Oooo this sounds pretty yummy!!! I love anything apple and chili so both together…. Omg yummy!!!
Your apple salad looks so delicious and easy to make. I definitely will have to give it a try some time during this week for lunch. Honestly, I have never had apple salad before. Diane Sullivan
OMgoodness/ That looks so good. Awesome recipe.
This sounds like a tasty salad. I LOVE the flavor combo.
I have never heard of Chili Lime Sauce before!! That sounds delicious and like the perfect lunch!
I bet this tastes as great as it looks. 🙂 Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Looks tasty and yummy. Thank you for sharing this wonderful apple salad I really want to try it.
This sounds delicious and simple, way too much salt for me though especially as the sauce contains it as well!
Thank you for catching that one Gilly. It was meant to read 1/2 a teaspoon or to taste. I don’t measure mine. I take a sprinkle and decide. Btw, did you get my email from last night? Please advice. Thank you! 🙂
I’m not a big fan of apples but this looks so healthy. I would have never have thought of combining apple with some of my favourite vegetables. I must make this for my son 🙂
Great pics…and this sounds delicious! Such an interesting combination of flavours!
This sounds so good, light and refreshing, especially with the crazy amounts of snow we keep getting. I love Robert Rothschild Farm sauces and this Chili Lime sauce sounds delicious!
Glad to meet another blogger who loves the Robert Rothschild Farm products. They are excellent! 🙂
Yum. Sometime those simple dishes are simply THE BEST! 😉 Looks delicious.
I agree. it really tastes as good as it looks and that Chili Lime Sauce is amazing.
I love the combination of flavours – chili always goes down very well here! I will try to make this.
I’m confident you would love it. 🙂
Salads with apples are one of my favorites and I eat them often. I would have never thought to add a chili lime sauce to a salad. Looks very tasty.
A sister in crime! Haha! I love that combo too. The Chili Lime was a new experiment and I loved it so much that I had to share it. 🙂
I love apples so I know I’m gonna like this. Thanks for sharing.
Let me know what you think. I’d be curious to hear your take on it. 🙂
I still haven’t tried it but I hope I ccan buy apples this week.
This looks like an awesome mix of delicious and healthy. Thanks for the recipe.
It does taste as good as it looks. TY! 🙂
Now that looks delicious and healthy. I love to try your recipe, looks healthy.
That looks pretty good. I don’t do a lot of apple related cooking unless it’s the fall, but I just might have to try this one out.
This is just the kind of meal I would love to have. I need to get my hands on some chili lime sauce too.
That salad looks so yummy! I love chili lime sauce, it makes everything taste extra good!
I love that the colors of the food on the plate looked so vibrant and appetizing to eat. It’s for sure a tasty meal that’s at the same time healthy.
I have never had an apple salad before. It looks mouth watering! Thanks for sharing.
Such great flavor bursts. I’m pinning this one to try later.
That looks delicious– and healthy!! I’ll be making this for lunch one of these days 🙂
This salad looks so light and refreshing. I think the sweetness of the apples and the kick of the chilis would be great together.
That looks so delicious! I’d love to try making this on the weekend!
Wow, strange flavor combo but this could be so cool! I wouldn’t have thought of it.
I love the idea of the chili lime sauce on pork- that would be fantastic. In fact, the apples would also be fantastic with pork.
Man, now I just want to eat some bacon.
That looks really good. I will have to see if I have everything I need to make this, this weekend.
I love apples. This looks like a great new way for me to try them more often.
Omg this sounds super yummy!!! That chili like sauce sounds amazing!!!
This looks really good! I love apples and salad so this would be a perfect lunch idea for me and my little ones.
This sounds and looks super good. My family would love it but I don’t eat anything with vinegar. Thanks for sharing.
Now this looks like something I would eat every single day. Absolutely gorgeous!
Thank you and I think you’f enjoy it too.
This looks amazing! I know what I am making for lunch tomorrow!
This looks so tasty. I will be making this for my family soon.
I love quick and easy meals. This is so hearty. One for the recipe book!
I want to try this. It looks so good, healthy and delicious.
Gotta try this soon. looks yummy.
what a healthy and delicious salad. I could go for this right now
Same here. Thank you for the props Chef! 🙂
The chili lime sauce sound so good. Perfect addition to this dish!
I’ve never had a dish like this before! Looks tasty! I’ll definitely have to try it. Yum!
Please do!
sounds like a great sauce – and I love the salad you have put together to go with it
The mix of flavors in this dish sound interesting. I have never tried apples with chili and lime.
Not big into spicy foods but the blend sounded so interesting had to check it out!
This looks so delicious! I must try this myself!
This looks and sounds super delicious. I’ll be trying this one
That looks like like an excellent combination. I would have never thought of an apople salad but the chili lime sauce makes it sound very appealing.
What an unusual combination for a salad! It does sound really delicious though – definitely will give it a go, even if just for one bite to see what it’s like:) x
I had never thought of apple in a salad, as in savory salad but that is a good idea. I am usually not into sweet/savory dishes but I could give salad i go! xx corinne
I never would have thought to put apples with vegetables! Sounds good with that sauce though!
Wow this looks delicious and so healthy, I’d never have thought of adding apples to my salad but I love the idea of getting more fruit into my daily diet with my usual lunch salad!
Oh wow, this isn’s a combination that I would have though of, but after reading up the details, it sounds DIVINE! I’ll have to try this myself one of these days. 🙂
This look super easy to make, apples plus vegetable. I don’t quite like the pea so I won’t add that in but would put in more corns as I love them! Thanks for the recipe, simple and healthy!
Oh, this looks super yummy. I will definitely have to try this. I love trying new recipes!!
I would have never thought of mixing vegetables with fruit like that. It sounds like an interesting combination and that sauce sounds really good.
This is so interesting! We had not thought of teaming these Ingredients together at all
It looks fresh and delicious! Shared on Facebook !
This looks so delicious! I will be trying this recipe out. With fall coming, it looks perfect for the fall season!
This recipe sound so original and tasty! I love apples and limes but never combined them. I need to make it!
What a colorful plate of food! So important to “eat the rainbow!” This recipe looks fabulous!
This sounds like an interesting salad. Other than fruit salad I’ve not had any others that I recall with apple. What a great idea, i love the addition of the chilli and lime.
That chili lime sauce sounds absolutely delish! I love apple salad but that totally just stepped up its game!
Oh my gosh, this looks like such a great recipe! It’d be perfect to make for the summer get-togethers that I love to host.