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The Salad I Make for Busy Nights — Everything Spring Green Salad

The Salad I Make for Busy Nights — Everything Spring Green Salad
Prep
30 min
Total
30 min
Serves
6
Calories
226 kcal
Carbs
16.70 g

Ingredients

  • 6 cupsorganic spinach
  • ½ headred or green cabbage, shredded
  • 1 cupmicrogreens (or alfalfa sprouts)
  • ¾ cupfrozen peas, thawed
  • 1 cupcherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
  • 2 unitspersian cucumbers, sliced or roughly chopped
  • 3 unitsradishes, trimmed and chopped or sliced
  • ¼ cuppickled red onions OR very thinly sliced raw red onion
  • ½ cuppitted Castelvetrano green olives, halved
  • 1 mediumripe avocado, sliced or chopped
  • 4 ouncescrumbled feta or crumbled goat cheese
  • ¼ cuproasted and salted pistachios
  • ¼ cuproasted sunflower seeds
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • ¼ cupfresh lemon juice
  • ¼ cupolive oil
  • 1 clovegarlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoondijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoonhoney or sugar
  • 4 leavesbasil, finely chopped
  • Freshly ground salt and black pepper, to taste

Instructions

  1. 1

    To make the basil lemon vinaigrette: Whisk together all vinaigrette ingredients in a small bowl until well combined and emulsified. You can also blend everything together in a high-speed blender. Taste, add salt and pepper and adjust seasonings as necessary.

  2. 2

    Add spinach to a large bowl and drizzle on half of the dressing, toss gently to coat. Add salad to a platter (or leave in the large bowl), then arrange and layer the other ingredients on top of the greens. Garish with salt and pepper. Serve with the remaining basil lemon vinaigrette on the side for guests to drizzle on if they desire.