Easy Green Goddess Dressing

Easy Green Goddess Dressing

• Author: Cookie and Kate

• Prep Time: 5 minutes

• Total Time: 5 minutes

• Yield: 1 1/4 cups 1x

This homemade green goddess dressing recipe is so easy to make! It’s creamy, fresh, completely delicious—and a great way to use up your leafy herbs. Recipe yields about 1 ¼ cups dressing; multiply if desired.

Ingredients

• 1 cup plain Greek yogurt, preferably full-fat (made with whole milk)

• 1 cup lightly packed fresh herbs (tender stems are fine): use cilantro, parsley, dill, basil and/or mint, with up to ¼ cup chives or green onion (sliced into ½″ segments)

• 1 medium clove garlic, roughly chopped

• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt

• Lots of freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Combine all of the ingredients in the bowl of a food processor. Process until smooth and green, with tiny flecks of herbs.

2. Taste, and add more salt or pepper if desired. Use as desired, or cover and refrigerate for later. This dressing will keep well in the fridge for 5 to 7 days.

Notes

Make it vegan: Make my tahini dressing in a food processor, adding the herbs suggested above (same quantity).

Make it spicy: Add jalapeño! Remove and discard the seeds and ribs from a medium jalapeño. Roughly chop the pepper flesh, and blend half of it with the other ingredients. Blend, taste, and add even more if you’d like.

Recommended equipment: A small to medium-sized food processor is perfect for making this dressing. Or make it in a blender—you’ll likely need to double the recipe to gain enough traction. As a last resort, you could finely chop all of the ingredients by hand.

Amazing Green Rice

Amazing Green Rice

This recipe was recommended by one of your fellow CSA members, Lynn! It's super flexible (the greens are fairly interchangeable), and it's a great way to use up extra greens or herbs you have in your fridge. 

•  Total Time: 30 minute

•  Yield: 6 servings 

 This green rice is my FAVORITE! It’s packed with spinach and cilantro, perfectly spicy, nutritious, and goes with just about everything.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups long-grain white rice

• 1 bunch cilantro (about 1 cup packed), or substitute parsley

• 3–4 cups fresh spinach, or any other green! like mizuna, kale, tatsoi, chard etc....

• 1 shallot (or a red onion from bug farms), peeled and roughly chopped

• 1 serrano pepper, ribs and seeds removed, roughly chopped (sub a jalapeño pepper or any other small hot pepper)

• 1–2 cloves garlic

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 1/2 teaspoon salt (1 teaspoon salt if using water)

• 2 cups chicken or vegetable broth, or water (up to 2 1/2 cups for stickier rice)

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Instructions

1. Rice Prep: Thoroughly rinse the rise in a mesh colander. Shake it a few times to remove excess water, or blot it dry with paper towels. (This prevents it from splattering in the oil when you add it to the pan in Step 3.)

2. Make Green Herb Mixture: Pulse the cilantro, spinach, shallot, serrano, and garlic in a food processor until very finely chopped.

Peach Salsa

Peach Salsa

Author: Love and Lemons

Made with fresh peaches and summer veggies, this easy peach salsa recipe is sweet, spicy, zesty, and delicious! Great served with tortilla chips or on tacos, bowls, and more.

Ingredients

• 2 to 3 ripe peaches, pitted and diced

• 1 cup diced sweet peppers (red or orange are great!)

• ¼ cup diced red onion 

• ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro

• Juice and zest of 1 lime

• 1 small garlic clove, grated

• ½ jalapeño pepper, minced

• ¼ teaspoon sea salt, plus more to taste

Instructions

• In a medium bowl, mix together the peaches, bell pepper, onion, cilantro, lime juice and zest, garlic, jalapeño, and salt. Season to taste and chill until ready to use.