Italian Spinach Salad - Toh
"From TOH Simple and Delicious Mar/April edition 2008. I'm saving this for a spring salad choice when baby spinach is in season locally. It looks very simple to put together. I'm really drawn to it by the warm dressing you use over the salads. Makes 8 salad plates/servings - so adjust as necessary. I've already made a few adjustments based on my personal preferences (cooked bacon over bacon bits, vidalia onion over red, and added the red peppers)."
photo by breezermom
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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8 salads
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 4 cups fresh Baby Spinach
- 2 medium tomatoes, quartered
- 8 large fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 2 hard-cooked eggs, quartered
- 1⁄2 cup cooked bacon, finely chopped (they said Bacon bits but I like only fresh)
- 1 small vidalia onion, sliced and separated into rings
- 1 medium red pepper, sliced thinly
- 3 tablespoons fresh dill, snipped (optional)
- 1 1⁄2 cups Italian salad dressing
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1⁄3 cup seasoned croutons
directions
- On eight salad plates, arrange the spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, eggs, bacon, onion, red pepper and dill (if desired).
- In a small saucepan, cook the salad dressing and sugar over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
- Drizzle over the prepared salad plates and then sprinkle the salads with croutons.
- Serve immediately!
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Reviews
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Very good salad. I normally do my spinach salads with a warm vinaigrette, and this was a nice change. I left out the onion... my stomach is having issues with onions right now! But it would be fabulous with them. Thanks for sharing! Made for Photo Tag game. -
I made this for a luncheon I catered and it was a huge hit! I did omit the dill as I didn't have any. I will definitely make it again. Thank you for posting! -
Thank you for a nice lunch! I quartered the recipe for me and enjoyed it! Made for Gimme 5 tag! -
Yummo, I made this for my dinner, but no mushies, yuck, I used red onion, snipped chives & also topped with some crumbled cottage cheese that I had to use up along with some pesto croutons. This was fabulous, I'm still lickimg my lips! -
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Excellent Spinach salad. I cut this down for the two of us and only omitted the mushrooms, for personal taste. Used red onion because that was all I had. Fresh tomatoes from the garden were wonderful on this. I cheated too and used bacon bits (sorry) Very nice with our Chicken Paprika. Thanks Hokie. Made for SSC Pet Parade.
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