In the Kitchen with Sigona’s Featuring: Quick, Healthy & Easy Apple Recipes
Wild Arugula Salad with Shredded Chicken and Local Honeycrisp Apples
A wonderfully light, healthy lunch packed with multi-layered flavors of sweet and tart over a bed of peppery and nutty wild arugula. Our local and organic Honeycrisp are outstanding and work great here.
Ingredients:
- Diced Honeycrisp apples
- Halved grapes
- Greek yogurt (such as FAGE)
- Squirt of lemon juice
- Walnuts or pecans
- Shredded, roasted chicken
- Wild, local arugula salad (available at Sigona’s right now)
- A drizzle of Sigona’s Spanish Manzanillo extra virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt to taste
Directions:
Combine apples, grapes, lemon juice, Greek yogurt, and toss well to combine.
Scoop and serve over a bed of wild arugula topped with nuts.
Drizzle with olive oil and lightly season with kosher salt.
Local Organic Jonagold Apple & Avocado
This recipe, inspired by a dish by Thomas Keller, chef of the world renowned French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley, makes a delicious snack all by itself or you can spoon it onto celery or endive spears. It’s an easy, no-cook, virtually no work appetizer or snack you can have ready in less than five minutes.
Ingredients:
- Diced Jonagold apples
- Diced avocado
- 2 TSP lemon zest
- Walnuts, chopped
- Squirt of lemon juice
- Drizzle of walnut oil
Directions:
Combine ingredients
Toss and serve immediately.
Quick, Easy & Delicious Apple Recipes
Right now our apples are outstanding because they’ve just been picked, which means they’re super crisp and exploding with flavors. The Honeycrisp is my go-to apple and we have local farmer Vince Gizdich bringing in some true beauties.
- It doesn’t get any easier or much better than crisp, sliced apples served alongside some wonderful cheese. Apples will complement most cheeses, but pair particularly well with our 4 1/2-year aged cheddar, Gorgonzola Dolce or creamy, rich Camembert.
- I also like to create a quick dish using thinly sliced Honeycrisp apples. I use a mandolin to slice them very thin, then I give them a squirt of lime juice and fan them on a nice plate. After they’re fanned out, I very lightly drizzle them with pure maple syrup and sprinkle on a light topping of poppy seeds.
- Make an easy, simple snack consisting of an apple and a serving of FAGE Total 0% yogurt as a protein.
