Spring Green Salad with Strawberries, Avocado, and Kiwi

Spring Green Salad with Strawberries, Avocado, and Kiwi

My mom makes this salad often. She just made it for a wedding and everyone wanted the recipe. It is delicious.

From: California Heritage Continues A Cookbook (revised by Janice Gray)

Serves: 6

This beautiful salad is extremely light and colorful.

Salad

12 strawberries, sliced

3 kiwi, peeled and sliced

1 head Boston lettuce or mixture of greens

1 avocado, cut into cubes

Orange Dressing (below)

Combine all ingredients except avocado and dressing and chill. Just before serving add avocado and toss with dressing.

Orange Dressing

1/3 cup olive old

3 tablespoons raspberry vinegar

3 tablespoons fresh orange juice

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon cracked pepper

1/8 c. sugar

Combine all ingredients and mix well.

Asian Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

Salad -

1/2 head of cabbage, chopped or shredded

1 bag of Top Ramen noodles, broken up into pieces

1 can of chicken

4 green onions, sliced

1/2 cup slivered almonds

2 T. toasted sesame seed



Dressing -

2 T. sugar

3 T. white vinegar

1/2 cup salad oil

1 tea. salt

1/2 tea. pepper



In a large bowl, mix cabbage, chicken, green onions, almonds, and sesame seeds. In a smaller bowl, mix sugar, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper. Pour over cabbage and mix together. Add Ramen noodles just before serving.

Southern Cherry Salad

Ingredients:
1 can crushed pineapple (drained thoroughly)
2 cans cherry pie filling
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 large tub of Cool Whip
3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:
1. Mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Chill.
3. Serve cold.

Pasta, chicken salad

Ingredients:
16 oz bowtie pasta
1 package of costco mixed greens
1/2 pack red grapes cut in half
1 cup pine nuts
1 cup graded parmesan cheese
3 cooked, cut chicken breasts

Dressing:
2/3 cup rice vinegar
1/2 cup honey
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp sweet hungarian paprika
2 tsp celery seeds
dash of salt and pepper
1 1/2 cup oil (I usually use 1/2 olive oil and 1/2 vegetable oil)

Cook pasta and cool. Combine all ingredients and pour dressing over it.

BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad

Salad Ingredients:
Chicken (prepared any way you like; I just "browned" mine on the stove top)
Lettuce (I just used a bag to make it super easy)
Can of corn, drained (or you can use frozen, I'm sure)
Can of black beans, drained and rinsed
Tomato
Shredded cheese (I used Colby Jack)
Avocado
Crushed up tortilla chips and/or onion straws (depending on preference)

Note: you'll notice there are no measurements because it's up to how many people you're serving and how much you want of each thing - I just guessed it all out. Like I said, it's hard to mess up.

Dressing Ingredients:
1/2 cup BBQ sauce
1/2 cup Ranch dressing (I used Hidden Valley, I'm sure whatever is fine)

Directions:
1. Put chicken, lettuce, corn, beans, and tomato in a bowl and mix up, set aside.
2. In separate bowl, mix up BBQ sauce and Ranch (you may like more or less BBQ or Ranch, up to you).
3. Put lettuce mixture in bowls or on plates and top with shredded cheese, avocado, and tortilla chips (or onion straws).
4. Put dressing on and mix up and eat!