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Spinach and Strawberry Salad with Balsamic Salad Dressing

May 2, 2018 By Cynthia Ferich

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One of my favorite all-time salad recipes and GO-TO salad dressings. This one screams Spring! With a combination of seasonal strawberries, Vidalia onions and spinach, all I can say is…delicious!

Cooking Tip:  Yes, you can prep in a mason jar for lunches or dinners.  Dressing  goes on the bottom (don’t toss). Stack your salad ingredients on top. Refrigerate.

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SPINACH and STRAWBERRY SALAD with BALSAMIC DRESSING


Course Salad
Cuisine American
Keyword #pittsburghfoodblogger, best salad recipes, best summer salads, salad, salads, strawberry recipes, strawberry salad
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 cups torn spinach
  • 3/4 cup thinly sliced Vidalia onion
  • 2 strawberries sliced
  • 1/2 cup grape tomatoes, sliced
  • 1 cup cheese: crumbled feta, goat, or cheddar
  • 6 strips bacon, crumbled
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, toasted
  • 1 cup croutons
  • 1/4 cup Kalmatta olives

Balsamic Salad Dressing

  • 1/2 cup EVOO
  • 1/4 cup Balsamic
  • 2 Tablespoon sugar
  • 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • salt & pepper, to taste

Instructions

  1. Toast walnuts in a skillet on the stove, tossing until you begin to smell them and they begin to turn a golden color. Remove, cool and set aside. Cook bacon until cooked through and crispy. Drain on paper towels to remove excess fat. Cool and crumble.

    Toss together the spinach, onion, toasted walnuts and strawberries. Top with crumbled feta cheese and cooked and crispy crumbled bacon and croutons. Drizzle the salad dressing and toss.

  2. For the salad dressing: Blend all ingredients, well. Serve.

Recipe Notes

Additional *optional protein, such as grilled chicken, shrimp or scallops may be added.

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About Cynthia Ferich

After writing and self-publishing “MaMa Mia Cucina” in 2007, Cynthia's writing, cooking and culinary teachings evolved into being as an entity surrounding food, fun, family and friends.

In an effort to capture her family’s ‘old world’ Italian recipes for future generations to enjoy, her grandmother, ‘Noni’, and Cynthia joined forces. "She measured, I wrote, and we cooked."

During her grandmother's latter 80 years, she traveled in memory through her life, as they shared in stories of a lifetime and long ago. As they shared this final chapter in her life, what Cynthia soon discovered through all of the measuring, cooking, sharing in the love of a family, and in the love of a friendship, was the passion for cooking, and a love that nourishes us all… It’s all about the FOOD!

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