– Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing –
This Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing is an absolute stunner. Loaded with so many different textures and flavors, it truly is an impressive salad. I love to eat to eat salads all the time, so I´m always working on developing new salad recipes. When I started working on a salad that made smoked salmon the star, I knew instantly I had to work with goat cheese and spinach, just because all these flavors work so well together. The real kicker here was adding the roasted red bell peppers, they added a whole new dimension of flavors that really worked well with the smoked salmon. If you´re looking for a healthy salad that packs a ton of flavor and is super easy to make, this Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing is the salad you´ve been looking for.
– Homemade Lemon Herb Dressing –
The best part about this Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing….is well the dressing! Seriously, when I first made this salad I just topped it off with some extra virgin olive oil…and it was so good!!! But then I decided to take things up a notch. As we all know lemon and dill work extremely well with salmon, so I decided to make a really simple and quick herb dressing to enhance the flavors of the salad. The result was this amazing homemade lemon herb dressing that just took this salad to the absolute next level. The dressing just brought all the flavors together and it only takes like 2 minutes to make! Watch the video below on how to make this Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing or check out the recipe card below, which you can print. Salud!
Equipment I Used to Make this Recipe:
Chef´s Knife
Wood Cutting Board
Pyrex 2 Cup Measuring Cup
Watch the Video Below on How to Make this Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing
Smoked Salmon and Spinach Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing
Ingredients
- 2 cups spinach
- 1/2 red onion
- 3 roasted peppers
- 6 black pitted olives
- 3 slices smoked salmon
- 2 ounces goat cheese
- pinch sea salt
- pinch black pepper
- 2 tbsp extra virgin Spanish olive oil
- 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp dried dill
- 1/2 tsp dried parsley
Instructions
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Tightly pack 2 cups of bagged spinach into a cup (I used my pyrex 2 cup glass cup), then transfer the spinach into a cutting board and roughly chop it, add the cut spinach to a shallow bowl, finely dice 1/2 of a red onion and add on top of the spinach, grab 3 jarred roasted red peppers and pat them down with some paper towels, then roughly dice them and add them on top of the spinach, thinly slice 6 black pitted olives and add them on top of the spinach
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Grab 3 slices of smoked salmon, one by one roll each slice up like a cigar, cut it right down the middle and start chopping it, add the chopped smoked salmon on top of the spinach, finally grab about 2 ounces of soft goat cheese and crumble it over the salad, season everything with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper and garnish with a slice of fresh lemon
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To make the herb dressing add 2 tablespoons of extra virgin Spanish olive oil to a bowl along with 1/2 a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill, 1/2 teaspoon of dried parsley and a kiss of sea salt, whisk everything together until well combined and then drizzle the dressing over salad
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Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
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