Meal Sized Strawberry Spinach Salad
- Minutes to Prepare:
- Number of Servings: 4
Ingredients
* 8 cups fresh spinach * 1.5 pint (or about 2 cups) strawberries, sliced * 1/2 of a red onion, finely chopped * 2 cups chickpeas (garbanzo beans) - can use canned beans, rinsed and drained, or 2 cups final volume cooked from dry beans (nutritional calculation is based on canned beans) * 1 small pkg (~150 g) soft reduced-fat goat cheese * 0.5 cup poppy seed salad dressing (I use Renee's reduced fat, reflected in the calorie count here) * 0.5 cup salted sunflower seeds
1) Combine spinach, sliced strawberries, chopped onion, and chickpeas in a large bowl.
2) Drizzle with poppy seed dressing, tossing to coat.
3) Portion out salad into 4 bowls.
4) Garnish each serving with 1/4 of the goat cheese (slided finely or loosely crumbled, according to your preference) and 1/4 of the sunflower seeds.
This salad keeps in the fridge up to 2 days, even when tossed with dressing. However, if you're planning to save a serving ot two, or to make-ahead, I would recommend not adding the goat cheese or the sunflower seeds until just before serving - both will lose some of their disctinctive flavour and texture if left to sit in the salad for more than a few hours.
Serving Size: Makes 4 generous, meal-sized servings (~2 cups of salad/serving)
Number of Servings: 4
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user ERIKA05.
2) Drizzle with poppy seed dressing, tossing to coat.
3) Portion out salad into 4 bowls.
4) Garnish each serving with 1/4 of the goat cheese (slided finely or loosely crumbled, according to your preference) and 1/4 of the sunflower seeds.
This salad keeps in the fridge up to 2 days, even when tossed with dressing. However, if you're planning to save a serving ot two, or to make-ahead, I would recommend not adding the goat cheese or the sunflower seeds until just before serving - both will lose some of their disctinctive flavour and texture if left to sit in the salad for more than a few hours.
Serving Size: Makes 4 generous, meal-sized servings (~2 cups of salad/serving)
Number of Servings: 4
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user ERIKA05.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 482.6
- Total Fat: 23.2 g
- Cholesterol: 18.8 mg
- Sodium: 786.0 mg
- Total Carbs: 52.5 g
- Dietary Fiber: 11.4 g
- Protein: 18.2 g
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