Spinach Cashew Salad

  • Prep Time: 0 mins
  • Total Time: 0 mins
  • Servings: 8-12

    • About This Recipe

    “When choosing salads as a low-fat diet choice be careful ofingredients used and the amount of dressing drizzled over thesalad. Both can add up fat grams and calories quickly. “

    Ingredients

  • 1/2 lbbacon
  • 1/2 cupcashews, pieces
  • 5ouncesspinach
  • 1/2 headlettuce, about 8 ounces bagged
  • 1/2 cupmozzarella cheese, grated

    • Poppy Seed Dressing:

  • 2/3 cupoil
  • 1/3 cupsugar
  • 1/3 cupred wine vinegar
  • 1/4 teaspoondry mustard
  • 1 1/2 teaspoonsred onions, finely grated
  • 1tablespoonpoppy seed

    • Directions

  • Chop bacon and fry until crisp.
  • Drain on paper towel to remove asmuch excess fat as possible. Wash spinach and lettuce then tearleaves into bite size pieces.
  • Place in Salad bowl.
  • Add cashewpieces, grated cheese, and crumbled bacon.
  • Toss when ready toserve. Serve with poppy seed dressing.
  • NOTE: Fat grams may be reduced to 1 gram per serving if baconand cashews are eliminated.
  • Each add approximately 3 grams offat per serving.
  • Poppy Seed Dressing:Place all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.
  • Alternate method:finely grate onion, add remaining ingredients andbeat with mixer until wellblended.

    • Reviews

  • “This is really an outstanding salad.My DD likes the dressing so much that we use it on other salads also.But be warned, it is possible to blend the dressing too long so it emulsifies into a gelatinous goop, something like mayonnaise.Guess who did that one?The first time I made it, i wanted to use the blender to chop up the onion … oops!Now I still put a chunk of onion in the blender with the vinegar, but hold the rest of the ingredients until the onion is pretty much pulverized.”

  • “We LOVE this salad! I was a little worried because the dressing smelled a little overpowering and I really didn’t think I would like it but it tasted really good on this salad. My husband was really leary but he loved this also. I don’t think it needs the cheese so I will skip that next time. I also used the ready made bacon because I really don’t like cooking bacon. Thanks for this wonderful salad recipe!”

  • “We enjoyed this spinach salad with cashews very much.The bacon always gives a special touch.Will make again.Thanks for posting.”

  • “Very good salad, I used swiss cheese instead of mozzarella…”

  • “I made this without bacon. I feel that there was way too much mozzarella cheese. The dressing recipe can be halved given the amount of salad this recipe has as well. May just be a preference, but using it all would’ve been WAY heavy. Thanks for posting!”

  • “Delish! had it pretty much as is, though the bacon I had had gone sour, so we didn’t have it. I reduced the sugar in the dressing, and added a little salt. Will make again!”

  • “Very good and easy too.Added 1/4 t. of salt and used grated parmesan instead of mozzarella.The dressing is best added to salad as soon as you mix it.”

  • “The flavors in the salad did not go together and in my opinion the dressing was too sweet.I had to throw mine out.”

  • “This is a truly amazing salad.Everyone who tastes it asks for the recipe.I made it with pecans instead of the cashews.And if I really want to go over the top, I add Craisins.The dressing is good on other salads, as well.”

  • “Yummy! I made this for company and it was enjoyed by all. There was alot of dressing left over so i made an additional salad with spinach, strawberries and cashews with it and it was delicious. Whirling the onions in the dressing hide them so well that even DD ate the salad 🙂 “

  • “Loved this salad just as is (although I omitted the poppy seeds because I didn’t have any on hand). This is the first time my husband has ever said to me “When can we have this again?”Thanks melanie!!”

  • “Excellent salad.Made just as called for without adding extra sugar, and using the Mozzarella as called for.Added a little extra Mozzarella, and it was just fantastic.Really enjoyed this recipe!Dianne”

  • “Everyone that tryies this salad lovs it.It has great flavor.I added just a little bit more sugar to the dressing and used grated parmesan cheese instead of Mozzerella.”

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