Ginger Jeweled Salad Recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger juice, made by grating a 4-5-inch piece of ginger into a pile and then pressing it against a strainer to extract the ginger juice
• 2 tablespoons white wine or Champagne vinegar
• fine grain sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon jalapeno, very finely chopped
• 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2/3 cup dried figs, stems trimmed, quartered
• 1/3 cup dried pluots, chopped
• 1/2 cup toasted hazelnuts, loosely chopped
• 1 1/3 cup cooked wild rice, room temperature
• 5 big handfuls of leafy salad greens (see headnotes), washed and dried