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You will love how easy my Strawberry Spinach Salad is to make as a side dish or main course salad. It's delicious, too - this spinach strawberry salad recipe is the perfect way to get kids to eat and love spinach! Ready in minutes with a homemade champagne vinaigrette.
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- Strawberry Spinach Salad FAQs
- What to Serve with Strawberry Spinach Salad
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Spinach Strawberry Salad
Personally, I am always on the lookout for easy seasonal salad recipes. You just can't go wrong with a simple salad as a side dish or even as a light main course with some grilled chicken on top.
My strawberry spinach salad recipe is the perfect combination of fresh spinach, sweet strawberries, crunchy walnuts, and crumbled feta cheese, all tossed together with homemade champagne vinaigrette.
It's a gorgeous salad you can enjoy from winter to summer, filled with sweet and savory flavors even kids will love!
I just know you are going to love every bite of this strawberry spinach feta salad as much as I do. It works as a side dish, main course salad, or added to a lunchtime routine!
Spinach Salad with Strawberries Ingredients
- fresh spinach
- strawberries
- chicken breast
- walnuts
- red onion
- feta cheese
Spinach Salad Dressing
- champagne vinegar
- olive oil
- dijon mustard
- sugar-free honey
- salt
- pepper
Recipe for Spinach Salad with Strawberries
- Layer fresh spinach in the bottom of a large serving bowl.
- Top with layers of sliced chicken breast, strawberries, walnuts, and red onion.
- Sprinkle with crumbled feta cheese.
- Whisk together the ingredients for the vinaigrette until well combined, and pour over the salad.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
Strawberry Salad Recipes Tips
- I wouldn't recommend dressing your salad until you're ready to serve, otherwise, the spinach will wilt.
- Not a big fan of spinach? Try out arugula in this salad - or you could do half spinach and half arugula. Spring greens work well in my strawberry chicken salad and my amazing grilled chicken salad.
- I love topping this salad with crumbled feta cheese, but you could substitute it for blue cheese crumbles, or goat cheese.
- Swap out the strawberries in this recipe for blueberries, dried cranberries, raspberries, or mandarin oranges!
Make Ahead Spinach Salad with Strawberries
- To make ahead: You can easily prep this salad ahead of time and store the vinaigrette dressing on the side until ready to serve! Simply shake the dressing when ready to use.
- Storing: Store any undressed salad in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Refrigerate vinaigrette dressing for up to 5 days in an airtight container.
Strawberry Spinach Salad FAQs
Flat-leaf spinach, which baby spinach is a variety of, is the most popular type of spinach used in salads and is what you will find when looking for spinach for salads in the grocery store produce section. It has a mild sweet-and-bitter flavor when raw that pairs well with sweet salad ingredients such as fruit, nuts, and tangy cheeses like feta and goat cheese. This is not the same as savoy spinach, which is best eaten cooked.
For spinach salad, you should not have to trim the spinach leaves of their stems, especially if you are using baby spinach. Unless you're using a larger variety of full-grown spinach with sturdy stems, then it is not necessary.
What to Serve with Strawberry Spinach Salad
This salad is perfect as a bright side dish or starter, but here are a few of my favorite ideas on how to make this a main dish salad:
- Chicken: I love making this strawberry salad with chicken, I like to alternate between grilled chicken, shredded chicken, smoked chicken, or roasted chicken breasts!
- Seafood: This salad is bright and flavorful, I love adding fried oysters, sous vide salmon, grilled crab, or grilled shrimp!
Fresh Strawberry Recipes
Try my Easy Creamed Spinach next!
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Strawberry Spinach Salad
Ingredients
Strawberry Spinach Salad Ingredients
- 6 cups fresh spinach leaves
- ½ cup strawberries - sliced
- 12 ounces chicken breast - fully cooked, sliced
- ⅓ cup walnuts - chopped
- ⅓ cup red onion - sliced
- ⅓ cup feta cheese - crumbled
Vinaigrette Ingredients
- 3 Tablespoons champagne vinegar
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons honey - sugar-free
- pinch salt - to taste
- pinch pepper - to taste
Instructions
- Layer fresh spinach in the bottom of a large serving bowl.6 cups fresh spinach leaves
- Top with layers of sliced chicken breast, strawberries, walnuts, and red onion.½ cup strawberries,12 ounces chicken breast,⅓ cup walnuts,⅓ cup red onion
- Sprinkle with crumbled feta cheese.⅓ cup feta cheese
- Whisk together the ingredients for the vinaigrette until well combined, and pour over the salad.3 Tablespoons champagne vinegar,2 Tablespoons olive oil,½ teaspoon dijon mustard,2 teaspoons honey,pinch salt,pinch pepper
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
Notes
- I wouldn't recommend dressing your salad until ready to serve and enjoy!
- Not a big fan of spinach? Try out arugula in this salad, or you could do half spinach and half arugula.
- I love topping this salad with crumbled feta cheese, but you could substitute it for blue cheese crumbles, or goat cheese.
- Swap out the strawberries in this recipe for blueberries, dried cranberries, raspberries, or mandarin oranges!
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