I was looking in a magazine for recipe ideas while making my meal plan this week and inside of Cooking Light I found a recipe for Strawberry Spinach Salad. Strawberries are in season right now so I quickly added it to my meal plan.
The salad of course needed a few changes, everything always does. I didn’t exactly have all of the ingredients that it called for. It called for Raspberry preserves, well I forgot to buy some, plus I wasn’t really interested in buying them for one recipe. It also called for 1 Tbsp. of Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper Blend (because it was an advertisement for Mrs. Dash) and I couldn’t find the Lemon Pepper blend anywhere. I even looked at three different stores. So I gave up and just used an Italian seasoning blend of my own.
The fun part of the salad was getting to make my own dressing. I’ve never made salad dressing before and actually thought it might be difficult to do. It was so easy and tasty that I can’t wait to make it again. The dressing did call for Rice Vinegar which isn’t something that I usually have in my pantry; however, now that I’ve been properly introduced to how easy it is to just SPLASH on your every day foods to pump up the flavor and make dressing with it’s going to always be in my pantry. (Plus I’m a NAKANO ambassador, without them telling me to give it a try I’m not sure I would have, and now that I have I’ll be using it again and again.)
So here is my version of the Strawberry Spinach Salad with a Splash of Rice Vinegar Recipe:
Ingredients:
Salad:
1 Tablespoon Italian Seasoning
1/3 lb. Spinach leaves washed
1/2 pt. fresh strawberries sliced
4 fresh tomatoes sliced
1 kiwi peeled and sliced
1 Tablespoon Almond Slivers
Dressing:
1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning Blend
1 Tablespoon Strawberry Jam
1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil
1 Tablespoon Rice Vinegar
Directions:
Place salad ingredients in a bowl
Make dressing by mixing the ingredients together stirring
Toss the spinach mixture with the dressing and serve
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