Mandarin Spinach Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
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Dressings
- 1⁄4 cup white wine vinegar
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 2⁄3 teaspoon dry mustard
- 2⁄3 teaspoon salt, adjust to taste
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2⁄3 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon poppy seed
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Salad
- 1 lb spinach
- 1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained
- 1⁄4 lb bacon, crisply cooked and crumbled
- 1 medium avocado, sliced
- 1⁄4 medium red onions, cut into rings or 3 green onions
directions
- Dressing: Combine all ingredients and whisk to emulsify.
- Salad: Combine all ingredients, drizzle with dressing, toss and serve immediately.
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Reviews
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Made this for our Fourth of July dinner. Served it with chicken salad sandwiches on great rolls and the flavors mixed up nicely on the plate. Used a mix of spring lettuce and spinach (good combo)and Jimmy Dean Hickory smoked ready-cooked bacon (great). I did not have the lemon juice (to my disappointment never made it home in my shopping bag and second trip to store they were out) and really missed the lemon flavor but was still a good dressing. I did not have time for dressing to develop fully (next time will do it it advance if I don't have to go to store twice!). The avocado, bacon, orange flavors are dynamite together. I really enjoyed my salad and noticed the rest of my family cleaned their plates, too. I will be making this again. Roxygirl in Colo.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.