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Strawberry Salad with Avocado Recipe
Strawberry Salad – fairly as an image and tastes even higher! With spinach, flippantly candied pecans, avocado, feta and a poppyseed dressing, it is a little bit of a exhibit salad however it’s tremendous easy and definitely worth the effort.
Probably the most fabulous new salads I’ve tried in years!
Strawberry Salad
I’m discovering increasingly more that I’m being nominated because the designated Salad Bringer. One thing about folks considering I cook dinner a lot for my job, absolutely I don’t wish to make one thing huge to deliver alongside.
Pfft! Aspect salad? I wish to do the centrepiece!!! Or a present stopping dessert! 😂
So I’ve been progressively constructing an arsenal of what I name “Present-Off” salads – to make myself really feel higher, that I’m making a worthy contribution. You need a aspect salad?? I’ll present you a aspect salad!!
They’re not technically difficult or calling for fussy connoisseur elements.
They’re simply further particular salads that look as nice as they style – and this Strawberry Salad is my newest!
There’s just a few elements to this salad:
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Poppyseed Dressing – dump and shake
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Frivolously candied pecans – fast and straightforward, 5 minute job
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The salad half – chopping the strawberries is the half that takes the longest!
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Assembling – gown the spinach, then layer up the salad. No level tossing, the strawberries find yourself on the backside!
What you want
Child spinach is my favorite kind of inexperienced fluffage for this salad as a result of it’s obtained a stunning delicate flavour and a delicate texture that I believe goes properly with strawberries. Different delicate lettuces will work properly – simply keep away from ones like rocket/arugula (peppery) and radicchio (bitter).
The avocado is non-compulsory, I’d fortunately scoff this salad down even with out. However it’s so good WITH it – that little creaminess with all the opposite stuff happening right here is terrific!
The pecans are simply flippantly candied as a result of we don’t want tons of sweetness (nor toffee sticking in our tooth). The strawberries add sufficient contemporary sweetness, and likewise the dressing will not be the zingy bitter kind, it’s creamy and a bit candy.
Poppyseed Dressing – A lot extra than simply one other dressing with the addition of a lot of little black bits! The poppyseed add nuttiness to the dressing which provides an additional something-something to this salad.
It’s not as zingy as most dressings – it’s a bit creamy (from the mayo) with a contact of candy. And I believe it goes so properly with the contemporary juicy sweetness of strawberries!
I discover that Strawberry Salads are finest layered fairly than tossed. When you toss all of it collectively, then all the good things finally ends up on the underside of the bowl!
(The great “stuff” being the strawberries, candied pecans, avocado and feta.😂)
So the way in which I put this salad collectively, I toss the spinach with a little bit of dressing, then layer it up as proven beneath. Often 3 layers for an enormous salad for gatherings, or 2 if it’s only a smaller aspect salad for dinner.
Make this Strawberry Salad as…
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Aspect salad for dinner – I normally skip the candied pecans and simply use plain pecans. It’s fairly fast to place collectively if you happen to skip this. It contemporary sufficient to pair with mains with huge flavours, corresponding to BBQ Beef Brisket. But in addition flavourful and attention-grabbing sufficient to have on the aspect of fast on a regular basis mains corresponding to Garlic Chicken Thighs, Baked Fish, sticky nation model Baked Pork Chops or some fast Garlic Prawns (Shrimp!)
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A meal in itself – it’s so scoffable, that is positively a salad worthy of a meal! I’ve been having it for lunch with nothing else on the aspect and its stored me happy all afternoon. Thoughts you, I had beneficiant servings!
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Strive including chicken! This Marinated Chicken Breast is good, or this Baked Chicken Breast. Slice it and serve on high or on the aspect.
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IMPRESS YOUR FAMILY and FRIENDS! Take this to the subsequent gathering the place you’re requested to deliver a salad and bask within the glow of praises!
Sure, the final level is the primary goal behind the creation of this salad and sure, I’m actually that immature. 😇 – Johnsat x
Extra Present Off Salads
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Apple Salad with Candied Walnuts and Cranberries – that’s plumped cranberries, not simply shrivelled up dried ones!
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Pearl Couscous Salad and Wild Rice Salad – vibrant, loaded with textures and hues, I make each of those recurrently all yr spherical
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Prawn Mango Avocado Summer time Salad – reserved for very particular events!
Watch learn how to make it
Ingredients
- 180g / 6 oz baby spinach
- 1 red onion (small), halved and finely sliced
- 375g / 12 oz ripe strawberries , sliced (Note 1)
- 2 avocados , quartered and sliced (Note 2)
- 120g / 4oz feta , crumbled
- 1 tbsp (15g) butter, unsalted
- 3 tbsp white sugar
- 1 cup pecans , roughly chopped
- 1 tbsp eschallots (French onion), very finely chopped
- 2.5 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 5 tbsp olive oil
- 1.5 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp white sugar
- 1 tbsp poppyseeds
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Place Dressing ingredients in a jar and shake well. Set aside for 10 minutes+ (keeps for a week).
- Place butter and sugar in a non stick skillet over medium high. When butter is melted, add nuts.
- Stir 5 minutes – sugar will go sandy, then eventually melt into a caramel.
- Once sugar melts, cook for 2 minutes then spread pecans out on tray.
- Cool then break to separate.
- Place spinach and onion in a bowl, drizzle with about 3 tbsp Dressing, toss.
- Transfer 1/3 spinach in a bowl. Scatter over 1/3 of each strawberries, avocado, feta, pecans. Drizzle with a bit of dressing.
- Top with another 1/3 spinach, strawberries, avocado, feta, pecans, then a bit more Dressing. Repeat once more.
- Serve immediately!
Notes
1. Strawberries 375g / 12 oz = 1 1/2 Aussie punnets, 1 US pint. About 15 large(ish) strawberries.
2. Avocado – I often skip avo when making this as a quick side salad midweek.
3. Candied pecans – the candying makes this extra special. But for everyday purposes, I skip the candying and use plain pecans. Also feel free to use other nuts! Flaked almonds or roughly chopped almonds are especially terrific.
Nut allergy? Try candied sunflower seeds! I haven’t made it but have tried it and it’s delish. The recipe should work just fine!
4. Recipe source – inspired by a bunch of recipes found online, dressing recipe my own, this Poppyseed Dressing recipe.
5. Serving size – serves 8 to 12 as a side dish, 4 to 5 as a meal.
6. Storage – once dressed, it won’t keep well so try to keep leftovers undressed. After dressing, the spinach gets a bit wilted after about 30 minutes or so.
To take this somewhere, keep the components separate then assemble before serving.
Avo prep tip: Cut in half and remove seed. Leave flesh in skin and cut into pieces using small knife (ie in the skin). Drizzled cut surface with lemon juice, return seed, put halves together. Place in airtight container with 1/2 freshly cut brown onion. Onion + seed + lemon juice = keeps avo green for days! To serve, use spoon to scoop flesh out – because it’s already cut, pieces will fall into the salad! Leave a comment below if you want a video for this Avo prep ahead tip!
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