If you're not on the hot honey train for salads, pizzas and all things summer, I need that to change today! Please welcome this stunningly beautiful Stone Fruit Salad with a Hot Honey Vinaigrette into your life!
Just take a look at this stunningly beautiful salad with a Hot Honey Vinaigrette. Butter lettuce, fresh stone fruit that's in peak season, herbs to brighten things up, avocado because duh and this Hot Honey Spiced Vinaigrette that you're going to want to drizzle drazzle on everything for the rest of this calendar year. It's perfect in every sense of the word.
If you've never had hot honey before - it's just a delicious bottle of honey with a touch of spice. Nothing too extreme but enough to give whatever you're using it on an extra dimension of flavor. It's perfect on the peaches and avocado in this salad. And the dressing is so flavorful, you'll want a double or triple batch on hand because it's great on truly anything. Roasted veggies, toss it on there. A slice of avocado toast, give it a drizzle. Leftover pasta that needs to become a pasta salad... you get the idea.
This is my favorite brand and you can easily snag on Amazon. The Hot Honey Vinaigrette also EXCELLENT drizzled over a pizza - this one would be a perfect example!
What you’ll need:
Stone Fruit Salad with Hot Honey Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 3-4 heads butter lettuce or baby romaine
- 1 bunch fresh chives snipped
- 2 avocados sliced
- 4 persian cucumbers sliced
- 2 ripe peaches sliced
- 2 ripe nectarines sliced
Hot Honey Vinaigrette
- 1 lemon juiced
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 shallot finely minced
- 2 cloves garlic finely minced
- 2 tablespoons hot honey
- ā cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Toss the lettuce, avocado, fruit, cucumbers and snipped chives with the vinaigrette and serve on a large platter. Add extra parm on top if desired.
For the Vinaigrette
- Whisk all ingredients together until emulsified.
I LOVE this salad. I do all nectarines and no peaches (because...fuzz), and make it all the time. My only complaint is the *appearance* of the dressing. Don't get me wrong...it's so good I want to DRINK it. But the parmesan in the dressing makes it look very unappetizing...almost a curdled appearance. Wondering if leaving the parmesan out of the dressing and just sprinkling it on the salad would be as good, or if the dryness of the parmesan would ruin the mix of textures.
Absolutely delicious. I will definitely make it again.
One of my go to summer salad recipes
Peaches and avocados are fantastic together! The hot honey dressing is the perfect compliment. I would had never come up with such an amazing combo of flavors. We've had it 3 times already. Won't be our last as peaches are still in season. Halleluah!
What protein would you recommend adding to this salad?
Grilled chicken or grilled steak
Great flavor. I have never had peaches in a salad, I am sold on this idea!
Your summer recipes just keep getting better and better!! So happy I have lots of lettuce in the garden!
How do you make hot honey
I just buy it
Oh, and I just noticed the narrative says it contains butter lettuce but the recipe calls for romaine.