Strawberry Spinach Salad brings recent elements and a pop of coloration to your desk! Tossed with poppyseed dressing, this straightforward summer time salad recipe may be served as a aspect dish or topped with hen for a lightweight meal. 

Maintain onto your hat. It is a salad you’ll truly be EXCITED to eat! 

Look, I’m not often the primary particular person within the room to rave about salad. This Strawberry Spinach Salad, although? It’s worthy of all of the reward I’m about to heap upon its leafy greens. It’s completely one among my favourite salads and was given to me years in the past by my sister-in-law, Karin.

The mixture of recent spinach with candy strawberries, recent plump blueberries and juicy mandarin oranges completely explodes with taste! Add the candy and bitter dressing and a handful of crunchy almond slices and this spinach salad shouldn’t be solely wholesome–it’s downright crave-able!

A recent salad with juicy strawberries and spinach makes me consider breezy summer time days and gardens overflowing with abundance. It’s the proper salad for the hotter months of strawberry season, however I additionally like to make this salad within the depths of winter to present me a little bit morale enhance (to not point out a dietary enhance!). Sitting right down to a brightly coloured bowl of greens and recent berries is a good reminder that spring is coming. 

Whether or not you’re a complete salad fanatic or in search of new methods to get pleasure from your greens this 12 months, you’ll love this straightforward spinach salad with poppy seed dressing. 

Strawberry Spinach Salad Elements

One in all my favourite issues about this salad is that there are such a lot of methods to customise it based mostly in your style preferences, or what’s in season. Listed here are the straightforward elements I put in my primary strawberry spinach salad:

• Spinach –  recent child spinach leaves are my desire! 
• Recent strawberries, sliced
• Mandarin oranges – Use the canned selection with juices drained.
• Recent plump and juicy blueberries
• Sliced almonds – Slivered almond items are good. 

Poppy Seed Dressing Elements

• Granulated white sugar
• Apple cider vinegar
• Poppy seeds
• Minced onion
• Paprika
• Worcestershire sauce
• Canola oil 

Overview the recipe card beneath for the precise quantities of every ingredient!

Methods to make this Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe

You don’t actually need a tutorial to make a spinach strawberry salad!

In a big bowl, place the spinach, strawberries, drained mandarin oranges, blueberries and almonds. I attempt to make it look fairly for company, however in any other case, I combine all of it collectively.

Methods to make Poppy Seed Salad Dressing

1. In a blender, mix the sugar, apple cider vinegar, poppy seeds, onion, paprika, and Worcestershire sauce. Mix till effectively mixed.
2. With the blender on low, slowly pour within the canola oil by way of the opening of the duvet. Combine completely.
3. In the event you don’t have a blender, you may whisk the elements collectively in a small bowl till all the pieces is effectively integrated. You’ll want to mince the onion very finely and whisk within the canola oil repeatedly as you add it to assist guarantee a clean combination.
4. Retailer the dressing in a mason jar or different hermetic container for a number of days. Costume the salad simply earlier than serving, because the spinach will turn into limp whether it is dressed too early.

Recipe Variations and Substitutions

• As a substitute of strawberries and/or blueberries, add some grapes which might be minimize in half.
• I like this with very thinly sliced apples as an alternative of mandarin oranges.
• Use walnuts or pecans as an alternative of almonds. You might additionally use one other crunchy ingredient like sunflower seeds.
• The dressing may be made with pink wine vinegar or white wine vinegar as an alternative of apple cider vinegar.
• You need to use light-tasting olive oil as an alternative of canola oil if desired.
• Change it up and make this Mandarin Orange Ginger Dressing to toss it in. It gives you a stunning pop of taste and intensify the mandarin oranges already within the salad!
• It’s additionally nice with a balsamic dressing or my Blue Cheese Gorgonzola Dressing!

It’s really easy to combine it up in several methods so that you by no means get bored. 

Can I add hen or one other protein?

Completely! Grilled hen breasts, chopped or shredded, flip this scrumptious salad right into a satisfying and wholesome meal. You’ll be able to even go the tremendous straightforward route and choose up a rotisserie hen from the grocery retailer to serve on high of this salad. 

I like goat cheese and in case you do, too, you’ll discover that it’s a scrumptious addition to spinach and strawberry salads. Creamy feta cheese is one other nice possibility! 

What ought to I serve with this scrumptious Strawberry Spinach Salad?

As a aspect dish, this lovely salad pairs completely with virtually any principal dish. It’s scrumptious served with Lemon Herb Roasted Rooster and a basket of Dinner Rolls for a Sunday dinner.

As we speak’s salad recipe makes a fantastic addition to a potluck meal too. Convey a giant bowl of this salad and a few BBQ Pork Mac & Cheese for a stability of hearty and wholesome dishes!

What number of servings are on this recipe?

This recipe will serve about 6 individuals. Be happy to double or triple it for a bigger crowd!

Extra Salad Recipes

• Searching for a fantastic low-carb lunch thought? These Avocado Tuna Salad Lettuce Wraps are scrumptious and simple to make. Or skip the tuna altogether and make this straightforward and flavorful Avocado Salad.
• Spinach and arugula are the principle greens at play on this Couscous Rooster Salad. It’s loaded with bell peppers, mushrooms, and feta too, then completed with a spicy paprika dressing.
• Greek Quinoa Rooster Salad makes a daily look on our lunch and dinner menus, particularly in the summertime. With or with out the olives, the flavour is unimaginable.

One of the best Strawberry Spinach Salad comes collectively very quickly. Bursting with juicy mandarin oranges and candy strawberries, it’s a salad that packs in as a lot taste because it does nutrients.

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Created by: Lynne Feifer

Strawberry Spinach Salad

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Whole Time 20 minutes minutes

Good for summer time, this Strawberry Spinach Salad is stuffed with taste! It makes use of recent blueberries and strawberries, spinach, mandarin oranges and sliced almonds. Toss it with the candy and bitter poppy seed dressing and serve it as a aspect or add hen to make it a principal course. 

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Directions

Poppy Seed Dressing

• In a blender, mix the sugar, apple cider vinegar, poppy seeds, onion,  paprika, and Worcestershire sauce. Mix till effectively mixed.

• With the blender on low, slowly pour within the canola oil by way of the opening of the duvet. Combine completely.

• In a big salad bowl, place spinach, strawberries, drained mandarin oranges, blueberries and almonds.

• Simply earlier than serving, pour dressing over salad and toss to mix. 

Vitamin

Serving: 1serving | Energy: 387kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 5g | Fats: 25g | Saturated Fats: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 7g | Monounsaturated Fats: 15g | Trans Fats: 0.1g | Sodium: 41mg | Potassium: 592mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 4536IU | Vitamin C: 78mg | Calcium: 151mg | Iron: 2mg

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This submit was republished on January 17, 2022. It has been up to date on June 12, 2024.

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