Your Basic Tossed Salad

Submitted by Little Bee

"This is Rachael Ray's recipe and pretty much the salad I grew up on coming from an Italian family. The portions can be increased for larger groups. I love this simple and healthy salad. It is a perfect salad to serve with Italian food!"

 

• Ready In: 11mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 2 romaine lettuce hearts
• 2 small plum tomatoes, diced
• 1 kirby cucumber, seeded and diced
• 1 small yellow onions or 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and shredded
• 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil (a couple of glugs)
• 2 -3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• kosher salt
• fresh cracked black pepper

directions

1. Place salad greens in a salad bowl and top with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, and carrot. Place oil, vinegar and sugar in a small plastic container. Put the lid on the container and shake dressing until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Pour dressing over salad. Season salad with salt and pepper, to taste.

Reviews

[CHEFDLH]

Thanks for posting this Rachael Ray salad Little Bee. Very nice. We enjoyed it very much. The dressing was basic but nice and light. I would mix it ahead let chill and shake again next time to meld the flavors for longer. Made as written for some hungry men. Thumbs up all around. Enjoy! ChefDLH

 

[CJAY8248]

Super simple and delicious! I left out the carrot and added radishes instead. The dressing worked very well with the romaine. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Katanashrp]

Very nice salad. I also added some radishes, for some extra crunch.

 

[Braunda]

Went to my Brothers house Sunday we had Steaks on the grill. I made this salad. Everyone was very pleased with the Salad. This was the first time we had Romaine. I must say we will have this over and over. Thank You so very much for posting. Hugs

 

[Auntie Jan]

I don't know that I have ever made a salad out of just romaine lettuce hearts before but I was quite pleased. Great salad with our meal. I love any kind of vinegar dressing so this was really tasty. I had to leave out the carrot as we didn't have any other than that I didn't change much at all.