My Favorite Spinach Salad

Submitted by Marg (CaymanDesigns)

"This salad taught me to love spinach! The dressing is WONDERFUL. I also love it on a lettuce salad topped with dried cranberries, pecans and crumbled bleu cheese."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 bunch fresh spinach
• 113.39-226.79 g shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 236.59 ml crouton
• 5-6 slice bacon, crumbled

• Dressing

• 118.29 ml wine vinegar
• 177.44 ml sugar or 177.44 ml Splenda sugar substitute
• 14.79 ml grated onion
• 4.92 ml paprika
• 4.92 ml salt
• 236.59 ml good quality olive oil (no substitutes)

directions

1. Mix first 4 ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. To prepare dressing, warm wine vinegar slightly.
3. Add sugar and stir to dissolve.
4. (If you prefer a tangier dressing, reduce the sugar to 2/3 cup.) If you don't warm the vinegar, you will have trouble getting the sugar to dissolve.
5. Allow to cool.
6. Add onion, paprika and salt.
7. Stir well.
8. Add olive oil and blend.
9. I prefer to put it in a bottle and shake it.
10. Pour over salad and enjoy!

Reviews

[Roxygirl in Colorado]

This was a wonderful way to enjoy spinach salad! My husband gave it a compliment and he's not a spinach lover. I made some quick croutons (using nine grain bread) in the toaster oven. I am not a big cheese lover in salads, so I was surprised how much I liked it in this one! I can see why this is your favorite way to eat spinach salad. It's now one of ours! Roxygirl

 

[~*Miss Diggy*~]

Great salad. The dressing is wonderful, and what really makes this salad. I think you could add many more things to this, like a red onion, a hard boiled egg....it is good without though. I will for sure be making this again. I took this over to a friends home for a dinner that they had invited us to. They all liked it as well. I probly could have eaten the whole thing myself if I could have! LOL Thanks a trillion times over!