Spring, Summer salad. For a lot of the year, I can use my garden's produce when I make this cool salad. In spring, it's fresh greens and radishes, and in summer, we have tomatoes, cabbage and carrots. Celebrate spring with this refreshing green salad topped with fresh berries, blue cheese, walnuts, and a blueberry-balsamic dressing..
But as we transition from spring into summer, salad will play a more important role in your diet. Salads are refreshing and bright, usually seasoned with tangy vinaigrettes, fresh herbs, and crisp vegetables. Using pecans as a nut butter in the dressing and salt-roasted on top lends an earthy note to this bright spring salad. You can cook Spring, Summer salad using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Spring, Summer salad
- You need 5 medium of pickling cucumbers.
- You need 1 cup of walnuts.
- It's 1 cup of cashew nuts.
- Prepare 1 cup of blueberries.
- You need 2 1/2 tbsp of mayonnaise.
- You need 1/4 cup of dill weed.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
Little Gem Lettuce with Green Goddess. See more ideas about Summer salads, Healthy recipes, Recipes. This cool and tangy salad is the perfect side for any spring or summer meal. The Pro Tip: Search for yellow and orange tomatoes at the farmers market to add color variation.
Spring, Summer salad step by step
- Peel and wash the cucumbers. Slice them medium thickness on a bias..
- Add them to a bowl. Add walnuts, blueberries, cashews, and mayonnaise.
- Mix well then add the salt amd dill weed. Mix well.
- Serve, hope you enjoy!.
A good way to motivate yourself to eat more salad this summer is to have a delicious, homemade dressing drizzled on top. Freshly made ranch dressing can turn a boring green salad into something divine. Sure, store-bought dressings are convenient, but homemade is so much better, and often cheaper to make too. Salads packed with fresh spring produce, from main dish salads with chicken, fish, or egg with leafy greens, grain salads like rice salad with asparagus and peas, and side salads such as Bibb lettuce tossed with vinaigrette. Every salad should be colorful and crunchy like this one with its bright tomatoes, carrots, peppers and sassy spring mix.
