Strawberry & Spinach Salad

This best ever Strawberry and Spinach Salad recipe is easy to make with earthy fresh ingredients. The crispiness of the spinach pairs beautifully with the natural sweetness of the strawberries and salty feta cheese for a wonderful balanced salad. This nutritious salad is popular to serve at Easter and for summer parties!!

If you like this salad try my delicious kale salad with walnuts and feta cheese, Chinese salad chicken salad with mandarin oranges and my easy pea salad with bacon.

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Spinach and strawberry salad dressing

I choose a sweet honey dressing that ties this salad all together. This crowd pleasing salad is always one of the first things to disappear at potlucks, picnics and barbecues.

This is not your traditional fruit salad but something much more special. The sweet berries, salty feta and crunchy walnuts with the drizzle of vinaigrette is one of my favourite summer salad recipes!!

The best thing is this simple spinach and strawberry salad takes just 10 minutes to put together!!

Try my easy house salad, my favorite green salad with mixed dressing, tuna pasta salad and chicken pesto pasta salad next.

Ingredients

Salad

• Spinach
• Strawberries – sliced
• Raspberries – optional berries
• Blueberries – optional berries
• Walnuts – chopped or you can use sliced almonds and pecans
• Feta Cheese

Dressing for spinach salad

• Avocado Oil – or you can use olive oil
• Rose Vinegar – the delicate floral notes of rose vinegar really helps to raise the level of salads with sweet fruit or you can also use white wine vinegar and champagne vinegar
• Honey
• Dijon Mustard
• Salt and Pepper

Substitutions and additions

Check out my handy reference for substitutes for feta cheese or you can use parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese or goat cheese instead.

If you want to use a different dressing other good choices are a balsamic vinaigrette, raspberry vinaigrette or poppy seed dressing.

How to make spinach and strawberry salad

STEP ONE – Clean the spinach and fruit. Place on a clean kitchen towel to remove as much water as possible.

STEP TWO – Remove the strawberry stem and slice your strawberries into quarters.

STEP THREE – Place the spinach in a salad bowl or serving tray. Top the spinach with the fruit, walnuts, and feta cheese. Set aside.

STEP FOUR – In a small bowl add the dressing ingredients. Mix until thoroughly combined.

STEP FIVE – Drizzle the dressing over the salad and serve immediately. 

Variations

Add in some protein like chopped cooked chicken or steak to make it a meal.

Storage instructions

If you plan on storing leftovers I recommend putting the dressing on each individual salad at a time. As the dressing will wilt the spinach and will not hold up after it has been in the fridge.

You can store the salad without the dressing using an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.

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