Learn to make Rreal Tacos’ cilantro salad dressing

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One night a few weeks ago my dog Murry and I enjoyed a delicious dinner on the patio at Rreal Taco in Midtown. Though all the food was terrific, I especially liked their special cilantro sauce which also doubled as dressing for the Abuela’s Salad. It has chard, chayote, onions, and avocado, among other ingredients — all perfectly complemented by the cilantro dressing. Any chance the chef might share the recipe? Thanks so much! Really In the jar of a blender, combine cilantro, vinegar, onion, egg yolks, mustard, garlic, salt and sugar. Slowly add oil and continue blending until emulsified. Taste for seasoning. May be made up to 3 days ahead and refrigerated. Makes: 3 cups

50 calories (percent of calories from fat, 93), trace protein, 1 gram carbohydrates, trace fiber, 5 grams fat (1 gram saturated), 18 milligrams cholesterol, 142 milligrams sodium. to cook for us so we could eat when they got back from their errands, mall adventure or wherever Mom, Dad and my brother had to go to. Luckily the answer was usually ‘yes.’

“So leaving my house on Sundays to visit family wasn’t always my favorite but I remember looking forward to going to my grandma’s house, partly thanks to the always present salad before the meal, more specifically her cilantro dressing. Well, that and the cookies, since our home was a mostly a ‘dry’ house when it came to sugary snacks. To this day I still remember being excited for the salad course. So as soon as I had the opportunity to write my own menu for a restaurant I called my Aunt Amalia, the keeper of Grandma’s delicious cilantro dressing recipe, among others, which she gladly passed along. That is why the salad gets the title of ‘Grandma’s.”

Villerreal uses a VitaPrep to make the dressing. This restaurant-grade blender from VitaMix has a two-horsepower motor that purees ingredients quickly and makes a completely smooth dressing. If you’re making this with a home blender, you may want to strain the mixture and your results won’t be quite so smooth and silky. The dressing is perfect for salads but also as a dipping sauce for Rreal Tacos saltroasted potatoes or drizzled on a taco.