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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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.
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The Tangy Vinaigrette Dressing
(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. I Recommend The Tupperware Quick Shake Container ~~ It Is Perfect For Mixing Salad Dressing
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Seasoned Croutons or, as Looneyspoons Calls Them, 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.
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
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- Simple Tossed Green Salad by Martha Stewart
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- Jamie Oliver's Big Give Salad Recipe From Oprah.com
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- Garden Salad Recipes From N.Y. Times
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino Oct 25, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
- In addition to tempting me with a delicious new salad recipe, you've mentioned two of my favorite kitchen tools. I use my Tupperware Quick Shake Container all the time, usually to make hummingbird nectar. I also love my salad spinner! Artfully designed lens. Squid Angel Blessed.
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Oct 14, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
- Thanks for adding this to my Thanksgiving side dish lens. What I really should do is make this salad and eat THIS as my main dish AND dessert. Maybe then I wouldn't gain any weight that day.
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- perfumelover perfumelover Oct 9, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
- Sounds delicious! I always forget about how tasty alfalfa sprouts are. Thanks for reminding me. ;)
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- Tasty Salad Lens! Fresh Croutons...yummy! Thanks for the recipes. Lensrolling to Green Veggies! :)
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- clouda9 clouda9 Sep 17, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
- Nothing better then a fresh salad - your ingredients are amazing. Thanks for adding to my Let's Visit the Woodland Farmer's Market recipe plexo :)
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