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This Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe is a hearty and delicious healthy salad loaded with flavor and perfect to enjoy all year long. Light, healthy, easy to make, and ready in just 20 minutes.
A hearty and delicious spinach salad recipe loaded with strawberries, pecans, feta cheese, and then tossed in with a homemade honey mustard dressing. Light and healthy salad that pairs well with almost every meal. Make this strawberry spinach salad all year long with family and friends. It is quick, easy to make, loaded with flavor, and oh so delicious. You can make this salad into a complete meal by topping it with some chicken like this Lemon Garlic Marinated Chicken or this Cilantro Lime Chicken recipe.
Why you will love this spinach salad
- Quick and easy: Super easy to make this strawberry chicken salad. Ready in 20 minutes or less.
- Healthy: Hearty and healthy salad loaded with iron and antioxidants
- Delicious: This spinach salad recipe is full of flavor and tossed in with a delicious homemade honey mustard dressing.
Ingredients you will need
For the salad:
red onion, very thinly sliced
baby spinach
fresh strawberries
raw pecans or walnuts
crumbled feta cheese
Strawberry Spinach Salad Mustard Dressing:
Dijon mustard
extra-virgin olive oil
apple cider vinegar or fresh lemon juice
honey
garlic clove
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
How to make strawberry spinach salad from scratch
- Step 1: In a small bowl whisk together all dressing ingredients. Refrigerate until ready to use. Soak the onion in very cold water for up to 15 minutes if you prefer a milder taste. Then drain and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Step 2: Meanwhile, prepare the remaining ingredients: wash and spin dry the spinach, hull and quarter the strawberries, chop the nuts.
- Step 3: To a large serving bowl add the spinach, onions, strawberries, nuts and half of the crumbled cheese. Drizzle the dressing and gently stir to combine.
- Step 4: Top with remaining crumbled cheese and serve!
Recipe notes and tips
- Spinach: Use any other greens of choice
- Nuts: We used pecans, but you can use walnuts
- Cheese: Instead of feta cheese, you can use blue or goat cheese
- Honey: Use maple syrup instead
- Oil: instead of olive oil, you may use another oil like grape seed oil or avocado oil
- Make ahead: prepare salad without dressing. Make and store the dressing separately and toss it in with the salad when ready to eat.
- Consider protein toppers like chicken, shrimp, or salmon.
- Add other berries like blueberries.
- Once mixed, the salad wont store well because it will wilt and become soggy.
frequently asked questions
Milder young Baby spinach is fine to eat raw in salads compared to the thicker and more mature spinach thats usually used in cooking.
The best dressings for strawberry spinach salads are vinegar or lemon based dressings. You can keep it very simple and use a lemon, oil, salt and pepper dressing. Other great dressings are honey balsamic vinaigrettes, lemon poppyseed, or honey mustard.
It is better to store your spinach salad before you toss it in with the dressing. The acidity or the dressing will wilt the spinach and the strawberries. You will end up with a soggy salad the following day. Store the dressing on the side and mix it in when ready to serve.
Other healthy salad recipes
- Brussel Sprouts Salad
- Mustard Potato Salad
- Salmon Avocado Salad
- Grilled Chicken Mango Salad
- Strawberry Chicken Salad
- Chickpea Tuna Salad
- Greek Orzo Salad
What to serve with This Spinach Salad
- Lemon Garlic Salmon
- Easy Salmon Patties
- Beef Kafta
- Mushroom and Steak Bites
- Crispy Baked Chicken Cutlets
- Lemon Chicken Skewers
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Strawberry Spinach Salad
Ingredients
Salad:
- 1/2 small red onion, very thinly sliced
- 8 oz fresh baby spinach
- 8 oz fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
- 1/2 cup raw pecans or walnuts, chopped
- 3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
Mustard Dressing:
- 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar or fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 small garlic clove, grated or minced
- ¼ tsp kosher salt, more to taste
- Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- In a small bowl whisk together all dressing ingredients. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- Soak the onion in very cold water for up to 15 minutes if you prefer a milder taste. Then drain and pat dry with a paper towel
- Meanwhile, prepare the remaining ingredients: wash and spin dry the spinach, hull and quarter the strawberries, chop the nuts.
- To a large serving bowl add the spinach, onions, strawberries, nuts, and half of the crumbled cheese. Drizzle the dressing and gently stir to combine.
- Top with remaining crumbled cheese and serve!
Notes
- Spinach: Use any other greens of choice
- Nuts: We used pecans, but you can use walnuts
- Cheese: Instead of feta cheese, you can use blue or goat cheese
- Honey: Use maple syrup instead
- Oil: instead of olive oil, you may use another oil like grapeseed oil or avocado oil
- Make ahead: prepare salad without dressing. Make and store the dressing separately and toss it in with the salad when ready to eat.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hello
Please can I use sea salt as I don’t have and know anywhere to buy kosher salt.
Yes, you can use seasalt