This tasty salad is filled with some of my favorite ingredients: Swiss chard, goat cheese, walnuts, chickpeas, and the sweet taste of apricots.  The simple apricot vinaigrette is a flavored with both apricot preserves and mustard but if you have dried apricots in the pantry, I recommend slicing a few of those as an extra tid-bit of sweet flavor.  If you have never used Swiss chard raw in a salad, this should be your test recipe—it is superbly fresh and unforgettably delicious! 

(To view this recipe, click on the following link: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chard-salad-apricot-vinaigrette)

Tagged: apricot vinaigrette, chickpeas, Cooking Light, garbanzo beans, goat cheese, green onions, mustard, Salad, Swiss chard, Swiss chard salad, vegetarian, walnuts