Strawberry Salad W/ Poppy Seed Dressing

Brooke the Cook in WI's Note:

Strawberries and cukes over mixed greens with a low fat poppyseed dressing. Great as a main meal or pretty side-dish. Serves 3-4 as a main dish.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 3

Poppyseed Dressing

• 1 lemon (zest of)
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons Splenda sugar substitute
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon poppy seed

Salad

• ¼ cup sliced almonds , toasted
• 2 cups strawberries , quartered
• 1 medium cucumber , sliced and cut in half
• ½ cup red onion , chopped finely
• 6 ounces mixed spring greens

Directions:

1. For dressing, zest the lemon and squeeze 2 T of juice from lemon. Combine lemon zest and juice, vinegar, splenda, oil and poppy seeds with wire whisk.
2. In a large bowl combine salad ingredients. Toss with poppyseed dressing, serve immediately.

Reviews

[FLKeysJen]

Love the dressing! It is quite sweet and the strawberries are too, so this is a salad that kids would probably enjoy (especially if you used iceberg). I thought it could use more dressing and almonds for such a huge amount of lettuce.

[Katzen]

This was delicious! The lemon zest was so good in it! The only change I made was to use sugar instead of Splenda (DH is a bit picky about it). We also didn't toast the almonds, but they were perfect as is. The veggies (and fruit) were all organic - I swear you can taste the difference! Thanks for the new and tasty addition to our salad repertoire! Made for PRMR Tag.

[loof]

I *loved* this salad! I don't care for onions so left them out. I used red wine vinegar as it's what I had on hand and the dressing was *perfect* with the lettuce, cukes, and strawberries. Terrific summer salad - thanks for sharing the recipe! Made for ZWT6, Zwizzle Chicks