Chopped Salad with Strawberries is a hearty salad filled with fresh vegetables, two kinds of lettuce, strawberries, croutons and is topped with a delicious vinaigrette.
I love salads. I especially love to order large salads when I go out to eat, so I decided I need to come up with some restaurant quality salads at home. Chopped Salad with Strawberries was a big success.
I opted for two kinds of lettuce, mixed greens and iceberg lettuce. I love the crispness of the iceberg lettuce with the mixed greens. For vegetables I used a sweet red pepper, a shallot, and a seedless cucumber. I added in fresh strawberries, feta cheese and home made croutons.
For the dressing, I made a home made herb vinaigrette and used a strawberry vinegar. I love vinaigrette’s, they are so easy to whip up and are way better than a store bough salad dressing. Trust me, it’s worth the time to make a home made vinaigrette.
I am looking forward to creating more salads!
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 head iceberg lettuce, chopped
- 1 package, 6 ounces, mixed greens
- 2 shallots, sliced think
- 1 large or 2 medium sweet red peppers, chopped
- 1 seedless cucumber, chopped
- Feta Cheese crumbles
- Croutons
- For the Herb Vinaigrette:
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup strawberry vinegar (you can also use red wine or raspberry)
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. bail
- 1/2 tsp. oregano
- 1/2 cup olive oil
Instructions
- Arrange the lettuce, veggies, strawberries and cheese in a large bowl.
- Whisk together all the ingredients for the vinaigrette and pour over the salad.
- To make home made croutons:
- Use a 1/2 loaf of day old bread, french or italian loaf works great. Cut the bread into large chunks and add to a baking sheet. Drizzle some olive oil over the bread chunks and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Keep an eye on them, you don't want to over bake the croutons.
Lots of lettuce and vegetables.
Herb Vinaigrette
Feta Cheese and Home Made Croutons
Delicious vegetables and strawberries
Chopped Salad with Strawberries
Chopped Salad with Strawberries
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Stephanie says
Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again next week!
Cindy @ Hun... What's for Dinner? says
What a yummy looking salad. Thanks again for linking up!
Erlene says
I love salads for dinner. My 10yr dd is a big salad eater and often times will only eat salads for dinner. Thanks for sharing your recipe on LInk’n blogs link up.
Diane (@SimpleLivingEat) says
I love the surprise sweetness of strawberries in your salad. Thanks for sharing it on foodie friday. Pinning.
candielm says
I loved chopped salads. Especially with strawberrys.
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YUM!!!!!! I’m featuring you on tomorrow’s What We Eat Wednesday! Please come join us again!
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