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A salad with all sorts of ingredients that truly go well together. Mix up some spinach with fresh mushrooms, red onions, cantaloupe and green grapes.
How To Make Fruity Spinach Salad
A spinach salad recipe with the right blend of fruity toppings
Prep:
15 mins
Chill Time:
2 hrs
Total:
2 hrs 15 mins
Ingredients
- 1 cantaloupe , half, seeded and skin removed
- 7 cups fresh spinach, torn
- 1 cup fresh mushrooms, chopped
- 1 cup red onion, thinly sliced
- ½ cup green grapes, halved
Dressing
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 2 tbsp vinegar
- 1 tbsp onion, chopped
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp poppy seeds
- ⅓ cup pecans, toasted, chopped
- dash pepper
Instructions
- Cut melon half in ½ inch rings, then into 1-inch pieces. Place in a bowl.
- Add spinach, mushrooms, onion and grapes.
- Chill for at least 2 hours.
- Place sugar, orange juice, vinegar, onion, orange peel and pepper in a blender, cover and blend until smooth.
- With blender running, gradually add oil until slightly thickened.
- Stir in poppy seeds.
- Cover and chill.
- Just before serving, pour dressing over salad and toss.
- Top with pecans. Serve.
Recipe Notes
You can substitute other fruit such as strawberries or blueberries for the grapes, or other types of melon.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 38g
- :
- Calcium: 129mg
- Calories: 483kcal
- Carbohydrates: 46g
- Fat: 34g
- Fiber: 6g
- Iron: 3mg
- Potassium: 1186mg
- Protein: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 21g
- Sodium: 90mg
- Vitamin A: 12806IU
- Vitamin C: 98mg
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