Ensalada de Chayote - Vegetable Pear Salad

• Cooking Time: 25 min
• Yield: 6 servings
• Level: Easy

Ingredients

• 3 vegetable pears, rinsed

• 1 cup cottage cheese

• 7 purple salad leaves, 1/2 lb baby field greens or mesclun, rinsed and dried

• Vinaigrette

• Pepper to taste

Directions

Bring 2 quarts water to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Add vegetable pears. Reduce heat to medium-low until vegetable pears are tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and transfer vegetable pears to a cutting board. Skin vegetable pears. Cut them in thin slices. Toss purple salad greens and mix with vinaigrette in a bowl. Place the mix in a platter. Arrange vegetable pear slices over salad mix. Add a teaspoon cottage cheese over each vegetable pear slice. Drizzle fresh ground pepper to taste.