This recipe for Butter Lettuce Salad with Peaches and Pistachio Vinaigrette and topped with shaved Manchego cheese is a perfect fresh peach Summer salad for your next Grilled Steak Dinner.
Isn’t butter lettuce just gorgeous? The shades of green, the velvety soft and tender leaves. Tender enough for a delicate salad and tough enough to hold up for chicken lettuce wraps with almonds and chutney. A butter leaf salad is perfect in my book.
I’m still up to my ears in Palisade Colorado Western Slope peaches and I happened upon this recipe from a Georgia peach website. What a great salad recipe.
The pistachio vinaigrette is thick and luxurious using a peeled and pitted peach, pistachio meats, Dijon mustard, brown sugar and, of course, olive oil.
The salad is fresh and colorful with sweet peaches, a few orange mini-tomatoes and topped with some nutty flavored shaved Manchego cheese. What an impressive gathering of flavors and textures.
Pro Tip: The Certified Cheese Specialist at Whole Foods suggested I pick a younger Manchego, one aged less than three months. He advised the flavor would be saltier and nuttier and a better compliment to the flavor combination.
This salad was a perfect pair with our favorite Lemon/Lime Salmon dinner. Let’s take a look.
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Recipe for Butter Lettuce Salad with Pistachio Vinaigrette
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Butter Lettuce Salad with Peaches and Pistachio Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 3 fresh peaches divided
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 Tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup red wine vinegar
- 1 1/2 tsp whole grain mustard
- 2 heads butter lettuce rinsed, dried, roughly chopped and chilled
- ½ cup Manchego cheese shaved
- 1 cup pistachio nutmeats divided
- mini orange tomatoes optional
Instructions
- For the vinaigrette, peel and pit one fresh peach and place in a blender. Add olive oil, salt, sugar, and vinegar and blend to combine. Once smooth, turn off the blender and add mustard and ½ cup of pistachio nutmeats. Pulse the blender a few times to emulsify, leaving pieces of the pistachios intact.
- Place the cold lettuce in a serving bowl and sprinkle the shaved cheese and remaining pistachios on top. Pit and slice the remaining two fresh peaches and add to the salad. Serve the dressing on the side or toss lightly just before serving, as butter lettuce will quickly wilt once dressed.
Nutrition
Butter Lettuce Salad with Peaches and Pistachio Vinaigrette …It’s what’s for Dinner.
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
This salad look heavenly!!! Vibrant, healthy, and two of my favorite things in the world! Fresh peaches and pistachios! Fantastic!
Thank you Kelly. We loved this salad and the dressing is really very good.
Love, love, love this recipe! How refreshing and creative!
Thank you Mary.
I’ve been on a butter lettuce binge too! Love the soft buttery taste. And peaches, wow…so good this year. I’ve finally gone through my stash.
This salad is gorgeous! And the flavours, love all the strong flavours. Peaches are wonderful in salads, I’ve been adding them to mine too.
Going to try your vinaigrette, sounds great!
Isn’t butter lettuce just the best? Good to hear from you.
This looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing the cheese advice. And I agree about butter lettuce. So perfect for so many things.
I thought you’d like this one Vickie.
Here’s the deal, Lea Ann…This is just the type of dish that could get me out of trouble with my loved ones. It’s gorgeous. Thank you! Thank you! (Bookmarked.)
Dear ornery one, I have a feeling you need all of the “out of trouble” help you can get. 😉
Wish you could ship some of those peaches to me! Lovely salad.
I do believe you were just in Colorado, you should have hauled back a bunch of peaches and Hatch Chile. 🙂
Lea Ann, I think I have just enough peaches left to make this! Your photos have me wanting to dive into them!
Fabulous! Enjoy.