Spinach & Mushroom Salad
"Nice refreshing salad, Very low calorie. Eye appealing. Use with Recipe #16611, Lemon-Yogurt Vinaigrette. A variation on this recipe is to use Fresh Spring Greens in place of the spinach and a raspberry vinaigrette"
photo by Lori Mama
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb fresh spinach, washed, stems off & dried
- 6 ounces fresh mushrooms, cleaned, sliced
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
directions
- Tear or cut the spinach leaves into small pieces.
- Toss the mushrooms with the lemon juice.
- Place spinach in salad bowl top with mushrooms and sprinkle with parsley.
- Toss with Lemon-Yogurt Vinagrette (Recipe #16611) dressing just before serving.
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Reviews
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For this recipe I choose to use a combination of baby spinach and the mature type. For the mushrooms we combined both oyster and shitake. It was indeed an eye-catching salad, and dressed with Bergy’s Lemon-Yogurt Vinaigrette (reviewed separately) it tastes even better than it looks. Thanks Bergy for a great addition to a summer’s meal. (prepared for "COOKOUT" Cookathon July 1st - July 4th 2002) -
Nice light salad served with hamburgers. I used brown mushrooms, as I think they have more of a robust flavor and I used the Lemon Yogurt Vinaigrette as suggested. :) -
I'm afraid this really didn't do it for us. I really thought we'd love it--we love spinach, mushrooms, lemon, garlic--everything in this salad and the recommended dressing. I think the lemon juice tossed with the mushrooms is too much. The salad was overwhelmingly lemony--we could barely taste the mushrooms, the spinach, or even the garlic. I'm not sure if I'll try it again, but if I do, I'll definitely skip the lemon juice in the salad, as the dressing is plenty lemony. I think it also needs something besides--maybe a little red onion?
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Bergy
Small town in the Okanagan, B.C.
On January 10 2010 I will celebrate 9 years of Life with Zaar. I can't imagine being without it! It has become part of my daily routine.
I feel very privileged to be one of the hosts on the Photo Forum. Taking photos of my culinary efforts is a full time hobby and I love it. My friends all know what to expect when they come to dinner "Are you finished taking pictures?" or "Did you get a photo of so & so?" I never let them wait too long and the food is NEVER cold! I now have over 6000 photos on Zaar - some fairly good and some definitely not so good. I am happy to say that practice does help.
My roots are in Vancouver BC Canada - a very beautiful city that holds many wonderful memories for me. In 1990, I decided that for my retirement years I may want to settle in a smaller community and found a slice of heaven in the North Okanagan B.C. I love living here but every once in a while I miss the bright city lights, the Broadway shows and some of the small wonderful ethnic restaurants that Vancouver abounds in. That is easily resolved. I just take a trip to the coast, visit with friends for a weekend see a show and feast on Dim Sum or other specialty foods.
I am getting a bit long in the tooth but was a very adventurous person. I have river rafted Hell's Gate on the Fraser river, been up in a glider over Hawaii (no not a Hang Glider!), gone hot air ballooning in the Napa Valley & the Fraser Valley, driven dune buggies on the dunes in Oregon, Para sailing in Mexico and tried many other adventurous, challenging, fun things. I have yet to try bungee jumping or sky diving. I may do them yet. I love to travel and experience other cultures. Mexco has been a favorite haunt. I have visited that lovely country many many times. Australia is another favorite as is England!
In the past 16 months I have taken off 61 pounds and feel wonderful. I am off all medications and all systems are GO! In years I may be 79 but in spirit I am still in my forties. We are only as old as we allow ourselves to feel. Always think positive. Do something a bit challenging every day & always do something silly every day. Be a kid again! Laugh every day - it is internal jogging.
Here are a few of my photos
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