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Everything Spring Green Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette – A Fresh Delight

Everything Spring Green Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette – A Fresh Delight
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 piecesPersian cucumbers, sliced or roughly chopped
  • 3 piecesradishes, 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

    Whisk all vinaigrette ingredients together in a small bowl until well mixed and emulsified. Taste and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper as needed.

  2. 2

    Place spinach in a large bowl and drizzle half of the dressing over it, tossing gently to coat. Layer the other ingredients over the greens and serve with remaining dressing on the side.