7 Tips For A Great Salad — Grilled Salmon and Mixed Greens Salad
Do you ever wonder what makes a great salad?
After having years of trying hundreds of various recipes, I’ve got some serious demands for what to include to make a salad a GREAT SALAD!
Here are my 7 tips for preparing a great salad:
1. Use a variety of fresh lettuce, with different shapes and colors.
2. Include a protein such as fish, chicken, chopped hard-boiled eggs, chopped thick, smoked bacon or prosciutto (tofu if you prefer meatless salads).
3. Add another vegetable or two — avocado chunks, red peppers, red onions, cucumbers, etc.
4. Add in nuts — we love both slivered almonds and praline sugared pecans.
5. Include fruit — dried cranberries or fresh strawberries and cherries are superb!
6. Garnish with cheese — shaved manchego, Parmigiano or clumps of gorgonzola/blue cheese or goat cheese.
7. Drizzle on a wonderful vinaigrette (homemade is best).
These are just the foundation of a superb mixed salad, and if you go by this list of ingredients, you can make adjustments for your own taste preferences.
So with those 7 tips for a great salad, this fabulous Grilled Salmon with Mixed Green Salad was created for tonight’s dinner.
Just delicious!
Healthy too! But you’d never know!
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gorgeous sweet, yet tangy dried cranberries with shaved manchego and praline pecans
Grilled Salmon and Mixed Greens Salad
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Ingredients
- 1 salmon filet, grilled
- 2 cups mixed greens lettuce
- 1/4 red grapefruit, sectioned and cut in half
- 1/2 avocado, cubed
- 1/4 dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup praline pecans
- 2 Tbsp. shaved Manchego cheese
- Viniagrette of choice
Instructions
- Grill salmon.
- While salmon is grilling, place a nice bed of lettuce on salad plates.
- Place grapefruit and salmon on top of lettuce.
- Sprinkle dried cranberries, praline pecans, and shaved cheese all over the salad.
- Drizzle vinaigrette of choice on top of salad.
So there are 7 tips for a great salad with a grilled salmon salad with mixed greens to show how to put the ingredients all together!
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Here are a few more delicious salads that follow the same tips that I know you’ll enjoy!
Summer Salad with Cherries, Prosciutto, Goat Cheese and Balsamico
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Broccoli, Dried Cranberries, and Smoky Bacon Salad
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Italian Tuna Pasta Salad
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Let me know what I’m missing! What do YOU insist on being included in a great mixed salad?
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I really love your Italian Tuna Pasta Salad photo. Makes me want to go out right now and serve it up for lunch!
I agree with you about all those things making a great salad, too! Once I started making my own salad dressing it revolutionized salad for me. Some of my favorite ingredients are feta, Craisins, and purple onion. I also love nuts. I always have to make 2 salads for Jeff and me because he absolutely hates fruit in salads, and I just love it. Thanks for sharing your tips. There were some ingredients that I hadn’t thought about using in a while, and it always helps to get inspired with new ingredients!
Love these tips! They would guarantee a delicious salad. And, I love grapefruit and avocado together in a salad!
Thanks Lisa! You’ve always got so many wonderful recipes too!
Roz
Delicious, healthy and perfect for the start of the new year. After all the sweets of the holidays, salads are making an appearance on our table as well.
Hi Karen, So nice to hear from you! I need to have more salads each and every day! I need to do better planning so that I do. Hope you’re doing well!
Roz
Great tips Roz. I could eat your salmon salad often and never tire of it.
Sam
Hi Sam, I never tire of salmon too. I love the salmon cakes that Larry (Big Dude) just re-shared on his blog this week. I hope you’re doing well. Health is so important to our happiness and I know that you eat very healthfully with all of your wonderful recipes!
Roz
These are gorgeous! My husband adores his salmon – and will be making this…. when the temps climb above 0 degrees F! I do concur that adding fruits and nuts really makes a salad interesting. Happy 2015! May it bring all good things.
Hey Claudia! I’m waiting to read more great recipes and stories on your blog! Thanks for your kind visit and comment about this salmon salad. I really feel so good when I eat more salmon. . . it’s just one of those foods that makes me feel better about eating healthier!
Be well,
Roz
Happy New Year, U.S Roz. from Canadian Roz!
Thanks Canadian Roz! Thanks for connecting better as friends on FB! I appreciate all of the love and support you have sending me the last two insane weeks of my life!
xo
Roz
I’m in complete agreement with your requirements for a great salad. These looks delicious!
Best,
Bonnie
Thanks Bonnie . . . it takes a little more than just throwing some lettuce together, but it’s worth it! Thanks for your compliment!
Roz
That’s an amazing salad, Roz. Thanks for sharing all the great tips too.
You’re welcome Angie . . . you’re the one who inspires me with so many salad tips!
Hugs,
Roz
We love salads here for both lunch and supper. It’s a great way to eat more veggies and less meat, which is what we’ve been trying to do. This salad looks really good! š
Thanks Betty . . . if I could just increase the healthier salads in my day, I’d be so much lighter myself! It’s a battle! Thanks for stopping by,
Roz
Of course i love to cook but honestly every week we have salad on tuesday night. it is just this thing my husband and I started doing before we had kids and we keep up with it to this day. I love playing around with salads and your tips are fantastic! so is that grilled salmon:)))
What a great idea to make sure that there is a delicious salad on a specific night of the week! I’ll have to borrow that idea Jessica! Thanks for your sweet compliment! Hope you’re doing fantastic!
Roz
And from all of your posts about salads made by Bev, she would be a go-to authority. I’d say that you are the grill master!
Delicious looking salads Roz. My answer to what makes a great salad would have to be Bev.
Thanks Larry . . . my husband leaves the salads to me too. Like you, I leave the grilling to him! Some things are better that way!