Spring Salad! Recipe

Because the title suggests, Spring Salad is a seasonal salad crammed with spring’s bounty of greens: Asparagus, snow peas, peas and cos lettuce (romaine), dotted with goats cheese for some creamy tang and a recent lemon dressing. Elegant, fairly and refreshing!

Welcome to Day 9 of the inaugural Vacation Salad Marathon, the place I’m sharing 30 salads in a row by way of to Christmas Eve – only for one thing totally different to the standard sugar-loaded baking countdowns!!

And I really have to share this one right this moment, in any other case I’ll have to alter the title to “Summer season Salad” (right this moment’s the final day of spring)!

This can be a great, vibrantly inexperienced salad that makes probably the most of greens which can be in season throughout spring, once they’re at their least expensive and finest.

The entire level of this Salad Marathon is to share concepts for one thing extra fascinating than a dreary iceberg lettuce with tomato and cucumber routine, and this salad ticks that field!

A mixture of cooked and uncooked substances, this salad is made with blanched asparagus, snow peas and peas that are then piled onto child cos lettuce (aka romaine) leaves, dotted with gentle goats cheese and drizzled with a lemon dressing.

“Seasonal” is commonly not more than a token phrase within the meals world, however this salad’s as really seasonal because it will get!

Right here’s a visible of what you want (which I realise I simply listed above… that is simply in case you glossed over the phrases!!😂)

The greens are all conveniently blanched in the identical pot to simplify the recipe. I simply add them within the order it takes for them to cook dinner till “tender crisp”, that means they’re simply cooked: Not uncooked however nonetheless a bit crisp, somewhat than boiled to demise, soggy and unhappy.

As for the newborn cos lettuce (aka romaine), the smaller leaves can be utilized complete. For the bigger outer leaves, I like to chop it down the center, like so:

There’s nothing this salad received’t pair with (Asian meals apart, actually). Alongside a fast Honey Garlic Chicken Breast, or BBQ Smothered Beef Brisket. A traditional piece of seared fish or Crispy Pores and skin Salmon (maybe with a Lemon Butter Sauce), a giant steaming bowl of Creamy Chicken Pasta or as a aspect to a summer season Marinated Vegetable Pasta Salad.

Traditional, seasonal, vibrantly inexperienced and stylish. I believe you’ll take pleasure in this one!

What’s the Vacation Salad Marathon?

That is my inaugural Christmas recipe countdown the place I’m sharing 30 salad recipes in a row till Christmas Eve – one thing utterly totally different to individuals’s regular baking countdowns!

These salads are along with my common 3 new recipes every week. As a result of aren’t you bored of the standard tomato-cucumber-lettuce backyard salad routine??

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