Spinach Salad With Raspberry Dressing

photo by Bergy


- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard or 2 teaspoons honey mustard
- 2 teaspoons raspberry vinegar
- fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups Baby Spinach, washed well
- 4 mushrooms, sliced
- 4 strawberries, sliced
- 1⁄2 medium red onion, halved and sliced
directions
- In a large bowl, whisk together olive oil, mustard, vinegar, pepper, garlic salt, dried basil, sugar, and salt until dressing is well combined.
- In another large bowl, combine the spinach, mushrooms, strawberries, and red onion.
- Add the dressing and toss well.
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Reviews
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I have never rated a recipe below a four and I feel bad about rating this recipe a one. No one in my family enjoyed this salad. I even placed walnuts I top. I used to bags of baby leaf spinach which is a little more over four cups. I am not sure if it is a misprint but four cups of oil is way to much to the only 2 teaspoons rasberry vinegar. It was to oily for our taste and you couldn't taste any of the other ingredients. I sure hope someone else will give this recipe a try and not be discourage from this review. Thanks for posting! I do enjoy trying new things.
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I made 2 batches of this: 1 strickly as written, the other I played around with the ingrediants, I have come to the conclusion, that the problem is definatly the 4 cups olive oil. The 2ns batch, I reduced to 1/4 cup of olive oil and it came out much better. You might want to re-check that recipe and be sure it calls for 4 cups of oil - because that really is a LOT of oil, even for an oil and vinegar recipe. The magazine might have been a misprint, but 1/4 cup of oil seems to be right. If you revise the recipe, I will be more than happy to re-write this review with a much better rating, but written as is, I have to rate it a one star. Sorry! Please reconsider the amount of oil.
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I see that the amount of oil has been reduced to 1/4 cup and this made the ratio of oil to the other ingredients just right. It made a delightful dressing - I added 1/2 cup of fresh raspberries and whirred the dressing in a food processor. Instead of strawberries I used Craisins and it was a very tasty salad enjoyed by all
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I see that the amount of oil has been reduced to 1/4 cup and this made the ratio of oil to the other ingredients just right. It made a delightful dressing - I added 1/2 cup of fresh raspberries and whirred the dressing in a food processor. Instead of strawberries I used Craisins and it was a very tasty salad enjoyed by all
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DebbiF
Raleigh, North Carolina
Since my childhood i have LOVED food and cooking. Anything associated with food and cooking. I have an extensive collection of recipes, numbering around 50,000 from various cookbooks, friends and family members that have passed them along. I spend a lot of time cooking and gardening. I am currently working on starting my own catering business out of my home and love incorporating other families recipes in with my own.
Right now my husband is the main taste tester. Our son is too young to try anything, but my husband can't wait until he can help eat things. My husband jokes i will need to give birth to a football team to put away the amount of food i cook for him to try.
We live in North Carolina and both work for the same company as Networking Engineers.