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Celebrate Spring
We've brought springtime to your door with these recipes.
With the advent of spring comes a bounty of ingredients at their peak of both flavor and value. And throughout the country, spring’s prelude to warm weather is greeted with fervor. Incorporating the season into your menu not only lets you showcase beautiful ingredients, it also answers a call from diners. According to latest trend surveys, locally grown produce is the number-one trend in foodservice. Chefs may be driving the trend, but with the prevalence of seasonal, local food on menus, diners are indeed eating it up. |
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| Behind the Recipes |
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Spring Rolls with BBQ-Hoisin Dipping Sauce Clean, fresh flavors come together in this Asian-inspired, healthful appetizer. Enhancing the lightness of the cilantro, cucumber, green onion and napa cabbage are the authentic flavors of soy sauce, ginger and sesame from the Kraft Signature Oriental Sesame Salad Dressing. A BBQ-Hoisin Dipping Sauce adds deeper flavor. |
 Spring Rolls with BBQ-Hoisin Dipping Sauce |
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Asparagus and Roasted Red Pepper Flat Bread This grilled flat bread is perfect for spring—light and crispy, boasting tender asparagus spears and baby tomatoes. The profile is brightened with the addition of Kraft Roasted Red Pepper Vinaigrette. |
 Asparagus and Roasted Red Pepper Flat Bread |
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Roasted Potato Spinach Salad This quick-to-prepare salad shows off spring’s baby potatoes and spinach while recognizing that cool breezes still prevail. Served warm, the potatoes are roasted, then added to the salad of spinach, red pepper and red onion. Goat cheese and toasted pine nuts warm it up, too, and the Kraft Honey Mustard Dressing brings in a nice balance of sweetness and tang. |
 Roasted Potato Spinach Salad |
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Baby Greens Salad This simple salad pairs sweet baby greens with red-ripe strawberries. Its farm-fresh ingredients give way to the season with little adornment. Toasted almonds and Kraft Poppy Seed Dressing round out the clean flavors here. |
 Baby Greens Salad |
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Berry Napoleons Who can resist a juicy strawberry picked at the height of its season…especially when dressed up in a delectable Napoleon? Crisp layers of puff pastry are separated by pastry cream (whipped topping deepened with Philadelphia Cream Cheese and sweetened with sugar and vanilla), strawberry jam, strawberries and blackberries. |
 Berry Napoleons |
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| What's in season? |
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Vegetables |
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Fruits |
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Artichokes Asparagus Beets Carrots Chard Greens (beet, turnip) |
Fiddleheads Green Garlic Leeks Lettuces Radishes Spinach |
Apricots Arugula Grapefruits Lemons Navel Oranges Strawberries |
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