The Best-Ever Looneyspoons Garden Salad Recipe
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A Beyond Be-Leaf Garden Salad, A Looneyspoons Recipe
This garden salad recipe is special because it mixes many fresh vegetables including a variety of lettuce, radicchio, sprouts, carrot, onion and more together with a tangy vinaigrette dressing and seasoned croutons. It creates a "mouthwatering, colorful salad" that is not packed full of fat like so many salad dressings are. It is a perfect choice for potluck dinners or for enjoing at home.
On this page you will find the recipe for the garden salad, the recipe for the low-fat vinaigrette dressing and the recipe for low-fat homemade croutons. It's a delicious combination; I hope you enjoy it!
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Contents at a Glance
- The Best-Ever Garden Salad Recipe
- Make Washing Your Lettuce Fun With The O...
- The Oxo Good Grips Salad Spinner Reviewe...
- The Tangy Vinaigrette Dressing Recipe
- The Tupperware Quick Shake Container
- Seasoned Croutons Recipe
- Green Salad Nutrition Analysis
- More Tossed Green Salad Recipes
- A Wooden Salad Bowl
The Best-Ever Garden Salad Recipe
Also known as the Beyond Be-Leaf Garden Salad From The Looneyspoons Cookbook by Janet and Greta Podleski
5 cups shredded or torn lettuce -- your choice, romaine, green leaf or mixed
1 cup chopped radicchio
1 cup alfalfa sprouts
1 cup grated carrot
1 small red onion sliced thinly into rings
8 cherry tomatoes cut into halves
24 thin slices of English cucumber (no need to peel it)
1 cup of Seasoned Croutons (recipe follows)
Tangy Vinaigrette Dressing (recipe follows)
If you have your ingredients assembled as discussed in the ingredient list, you have already done most of the work. The Looneyspoons cookbook recommends dividing the ingredients evenly onto four serving plates, drizzling the salad dressing over the salads and serving immediately.
Since I usually make this salad for potluck affairs, I usually prepare the ingredients and mix the lettuce, radicchio, sprouts, carrots and ontions together in my serving bowl. Then I put the cherry tomatoes and the cucumber slices in a second small container and the croutons in a third. When it is time to eat the salad, I throw everything into the bowl, add the dressing and mix.
This salad really is delicious. The recipe always wins rave reviews.
Serves 4.
Make Washing Your Lettuce Fun With The OXO Salad Spinner
(One of my favorite kitchen tools & a great way to convince your children to wash the lettuce!)
This is Amazon's bestselling salad spinner, the OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner. Looks pretty simple and it is but it is also fantastic.
How do I know? Well, a quick look at all of the five-star Amazon Customer Reviews
Several years ago I got tired of my old salad spinner which consistently did NOT work well so I went shopping looking for a sturdy, simple salad spinner. The OXO is the one that I brought home. Believe me I wasn't disappointed and, if you are interested, you can read more about this salad spinner at The Best Salad Spinner.
In really is a simple, sturdy salad spinner at a reasonable price. The handle is cushioned, the bottom won't slip, it spins well and it is dishwasher safe. What more could you ask?
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A real time saver that I could not part with!
The Tangy Vinaigrette Dressing Recipe
(A Looneyspoons recipe.)
3 tablespoons of red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons of apple juice
2 teaspoons of olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon of dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon of oregano (dried)
1/8 teaspoon of black pepper
Mix them all together in a bowl or salad dressing shaker
and serve at room temperature. The Tupperware Quick Shake Container
I use this container to mix the dressing and to carry it to its destination.
Tupperware Quick Shake Container, Red
Amazon Price: $9.80 (as of 02/15/2012)
List Price: $14.00
"It's tupperware, what do you expect? My family owns three of these. They are used daily and are indestructible. You can't wreck them." ~~ J. Parsons' Amazon Customer Review
Seasoned Croutons Recipe
Seasoned Croutovs - The authors of Looneyspoons acknowledged their cousins who risked their lives in order to share this secret, KGB-protected recipe for low-fat croutovs.
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon Parmesan cheese
3 cups cubed fresh bread
Olive-oil flavored cooking spray
Mix the dry ingredients well and then put them into a large plastic freezer bag. Spray the bread cubes lightly with the cooking spray, put the cubes into the bag and shake. Put the bread cubes on a baking sheet and bake until croutons are crisp and golden or about 10 to 15 minutes. Different breads, of course, will take different times.
Store them in a container for up to 1 week...or eat them right away!
Makes 3 cups.
Green Salad Nutrition Analysis
What's In It For Me?
Per Serving:
114 Calories
3.7 grams of fat
17.7 grams of carbohydrate
3.4 grams of protein
142 mgs of sodium
0 mg cholesterol
28.5 percent calories from fat
More Tossed Green Salad Recipes
- Spring Green Salad Recipe by Tyler Florence
- Tyler Florence offers a very simple salad mostly of greens and dressing. Not for everyone maybe (one reviewer commented she just needs to add a tomato or something) but still sounds interesting.
- Lady and Sons Garden Salad From Paula Deen's Recipe Collection
- Paula combines an interesting dressing with greens, red pepper, red onion, walnuts and cheese.
- Simple Tossed Green Salad by Martha Stewart
- Yes, it's a simple recipe with just seven ingredients. Martha's tossed green salad sounds good!
- Jamie Oliver's Big Give Salad Recipe From Oprah.com
- This simple and easy salad from Jamie Oliver is a great complement to any meal. Another recipe with less than ten ingredients!
- Beetroot, Red Apple and Watercress Salad ~~ Jamie Oliver recipes
- Beetroot can be eaten raw but it needs to be very finely sliced - a mandolin is ideal.
- Garden Salad Recipes From N.Y. Times
- SUMMER may not be the best time to cook, but it's certainly among the best times to eat. Toss watermelon and peaches with some ingredients you have lying around already, and you can produce a salad that's delicious, unusual, fast and perfectly seasonal. That's the idea behind the 101 ideas found in this section.
- Summer Salads ~~ The Vancouver Sun
- Summer is the best time to make a salad. Instructions from prepping to dressing, top tips for great greens.
A Wooden Salad Bowl
This salad would be lovely served in the Woodard & Charles cherry finish wooden bowl.
"This bowl was ordered for our vacation house. Since we only have one salad bowl, it needs to be used for as few as 2 people and as many as a crowd of people when we have a dinner party. The size was perfect and the bowl looks like it was more expensive than it was. It was shipped very promptly and arrived much sooner than expected. I am very pleased."~~ Hollis Berney
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Looneyspoons: Low-fat Food Made Fun by Janet and Greta Podleski
This cookbook contains over 150 outrageously delicious low-fat recipes including this tossed salad recipe!
. (If you're a Canadian, order it through Amazon.ca by clicking right here
.)Definitely a great cookbook!
Looneyspoons: Low-fat Food Made Fun!
Amazon Price: $43.98 (as of 02/15/2012)
List Price: $19.95
"Looneyspoons has showed me how fun and easy cooking can be and I love to cook now. I can make great low-fat meals in no time; this is by far the best cookbook I've ever had. The authors are really funny and the recipes taste great. They do a lot with spices which is something I've never experimented too much with before... HIGH APPLAUSE TO THE AUTHORS FOR SUCH AN AMAZING COOKBOOK." ~~ Amazon Customer Review
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Do you enjoy a great green or tossed salad? What do you think makes a great salad?
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poutine
Nov 12, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | delete
- Sounds very healthy.
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PattiHale
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- Thanks for this! Great lens.
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Tipi
Sep 1, 2011 @ 4:00 am | delete
- I've never heard on Looneyspoons but I know I would love their very best salad, my tongue was all tingly as I read the tangy dressing directions....and fresh croutons, oh my!
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RecipePublishing
Jul 22, 2011 @ 2:28 pm | delete
- These looked good!
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SereneSea
Jul 6, 2011 @ 11:41 pm | delete
- Love this garden salad recipe, usually I am too lazy to prepare a salad recipe but I think that it is worth spending time in a green salad.
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