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This strawberry and spinach salad is light, and refreshing and served with roasted peppers, goat cheese, pickled onions, and candied pecans for the ultimate salad. You will love the robust flavors in this salad and how simple it is to prepare.
If you love big hearty refreshing salads, especially in the summer months, please see how to make my Cobb Salad or my Caesar Salad.
Strawberry Spinach Salad
Strawberry spinach salad is a simple-to-prepare salad or main course consisting of spinach, fresh strawberries, roasted peppers, cheese, and vinaigrette. I took the liberty to add a few more flavors and textures with the pickled onions and candied pecans to enhance the flavors of this further.
Something magical happens when roasted peppers are served up with strawberries, and the flavor combination is to die for. If you need to make this out of season, then try swapping out the fresh strawberries for mandarin oranges.
Ingredients and Substitutions
- Spinach – I prefer to use baby spinach in this recipe. However, you can use regular spinach.
- Peppers – Roasted red bell peppers and yellow bell peppers are perfect. You can also just use 1 or the other.
- Cheese – I like to use goat cheese for this strawberry spinach salad. However, you can also use feta cheese or a combination of both.
- Onions – Pickled onions add so much flavor to this salad.
- Pecans – I added some candied pecans to this dish for some sweetness, nutty flavors, and texture.
- Strawberries – Fresh strawberries are what you will need. Frozen strawberries, once thawed, are a bit too waterlogged and will not work for this.
- Dressing – I prefer my poppy seed dressing or balsamic vinaigrette for this salad.
How to Make a Strawberry Spinach Salad
Start by thinly slicing the fresh strawberries.
Next, julienne the roasted peppers.
Add the washed and dried baby spinach to a large salad bowl.
Garnish the salad with sliced strawberries, candied pecans, pickled onions, cheese, and roasted peppers. Serve alongside your favorite dressing.
Make-Ahead and Storage
Make-Ahead:Keep the dressing separate and the salad accompaniments separate, but you can prepare this up to 2 days ahead of time for freshness. Don’t season it until it’s ready to serve.
How To Store:If you can keep the seasoning and vinaigrette separate, cover and keep it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Chef Notes + Tips
- You can also add fresh basil leaves or micro-greens as a garnish to this dish.
- Feel free to add a protein like cooked chicken, fish, or steak.
More Salad Recipes
- Tomato Onion Salad
- Niçoise Salad
- Kale Salad
- Greek Salad
- Chef Salad
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Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe
5 from 1 vote
This strawberry and spinach salad is served with roasted peppers, goat cheese, pickled onions, and candied pecans for the ultimate salad.
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes minutes
Ingredients
- 6 cups packed baby spinach
- 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries
- 1 cup candied pecans
- ¼ cup pickled red onions
- ½ cup crumbled goat cheese
- 1/3 cup julienne roasted yellow bell peppers
- 1/3 cup julienne roasted red bell peppers
- coarse salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste
Instructions
Start by thinly slicing the fresh strawberries.
Next, julienne the roasted peppers.
Add the washed and dried baby spinach to a large salad bowl.
Garnish the salad with the sliced strawberries, candied pecans, pickled onions, cheese, and roasted peppers. Season with salt and pepper and serve alongside your favorite dressing.
Notes
Make-Ahead:Keep the dressing separate and the salad accompaniments separate, but you can prepare this up to 2 days ahead of time for freshness. Don’t season it until it’s ready to serve.
How To Store: If you can keep the seasoning and vinaigrette separate, cover and keep it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
You can also add fresh basil leaves or micro-greens as a garnish to this dish.
Feel free to add a protein like cooked chicken, fish, or steak.
Nutrition
Calories: 255kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 8gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 570mgPotassium: 362mgFiber: 3gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 4639IUVitamin C: 45mgCalcium: 122mgIron: 2mg
Course: Salad
Cuisine: American
Author: Chef Billy Parisi
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5 comments
- Chris Dean
Loved this Salad ! Even made the pickled onions ! Delish ! Dressing is to die for !
Thank Chef Billy for sharing all of your wonderful recipes!- Reply
so good!!
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- Donna A Pollock
WOW!! Chef…doesn’t this Salad look amazing? This is what I need now after all the BBQ I have had this Summer. I love BBQ bit Oh man have I ate alot of it this Summer. This salad looks so cool, refreshing, and delicious. I can;t wait to make one of these for myself. My boys would have a fit if I tried to serve this o them, but it’s right up my ally. Thank you Chef, for another great recipe….
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- Sandy Crisp
I need a good salad dressing recipe. A Lillie on the sweet side but not overly sweet.
For your strawberry spinach salad- Reply
There are plenty in the salad dressing section of my website 🙂
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