Really Green Salad With Avocado Lemon Dressing

Submitted by Sharon123

"This is what I eat everyday for lunch. I just use what I have on hand. Feel free to change around the ingredients to please your tastes. Sometimes I even grate some beet into the mix!"

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 19
• Yields: 1 large serving

ingredients

• 2 cups mixed baby greens (or lettuce of choice)
• 1 cup baby spinach leaves
• 1⁄2 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup chopped fresh cilantro, to taste
• 1⁄2 cup alfalfa sprout
• 1⁄4 cup lentil sprouts (or other sprouts)
• 1⁄4 cup chopped cucumber
• 1⁄4 cup halved cherry tomatoes
• 1⁄4 cup chopped red bell pepper (or yellow or green)
• 1⁄2 cup snow peas, sliced thinly
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 -2 scallion, chopped
• 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup thinly sliced of fresh mint

• Variations

• grated beets or shaved summer squash, etc

• Dressing

• 1 lemon, juice of (about 1/3-1/2 cup)
• 1⁄3 cup olive oil
• 1 tablespoon honey (to taste)
• 1⁄2 avocado, mashed
• salt (optional)

directions

1. In a large bowl, place the lettuces, parsley, cilantro, sprouts, cucumber, tomatoes, bell peppers, snow peas, garlic, scallions and mint.
2. In a small bowl, mash avocado well.
3. Add juice from lemon, honey and avocado.
4. Add oil to taste and mix thoroughly.
5. Salt to taste if desired(I don't use it).
6. Pour dressing over salad and enjoy!

Reviews

[LifeIsGood]

I love the healthy salad ingredients. It is a great combination. The dressing is really tasty, too! I love avocados!

 

[DanPatch]

This salad dressing is great! Just made a regular garden salad (using baby romaine, shredded carrot, cucumber, tomato, chives, yellow bell pepper, and added some chopped mint in this time), and spooned the dressing over top.<br/><br/>The flavour of the salad dressing is awesome. I made it with 1/2 and 1/2 canola oil and olive oil, a dash of seasoning salt. Excellent!

 

[AprilAnn]

This dressing rocks!! Wow! I love it! Easy to whip up and healthy. After finishing my salad, I drizzled some on my salmon. Perfect combination! Try it!! Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe!

 

[Halcyon Eve]

This was a wonderful salad! The salad is so flexible, that really this review is more for the dressing than anything. I did tweak the recipe a bit to suit our tastes and my diet: for 3 dinner salads, I made the dressing using 1 medium avocado, 1/4 cup EVOO, 2 tsp honey, and about 1/3 cup (didn't measure, so just an estimate) of lemon juice (bottled, instead of fresh). This seemed just perfect to us--DH's whole face just lit up when he sampled it! For the salad, I used mixed baby greens, baby spinach, sliced Persian cucumbers, chopped orange bell pepper, chopped sugar snap peas, chopped red onion, chopped cilantro, spicy salad sprouts, and heirloom cherry tomatoes. Served with multigrain rolls and Bing cherries, this made a lovely summer dinner for us. Thanks so much for sharing, Sharon! Made for Everyday is a Holiday tag game.

 

[LindseyKay]

I made this for a get-together (quadrupled), and people couldn't stop raving about the dressing! I reduced the olive oil to 1/4c and added in a few dashes of red wine vinegar. It was excellent. I will make this my new salad dressing; I love that its bright and healthy and there are no nasty preservatives or additives.