Spinach Blueberry Strawberry Salad with Balsamic Dressing
You’ll fall head over heels for this easy, flavourful spinach salad with fresh blueberries and strawberries dressed with a creamy balsamic vinaigrette. Who says healthy can’t be craveable? Makes a great side salad or main dish with added protein
Ingredients
- 4 packed cups baby spinach torn or roughly chopped (or your fave salad green!)
- 1 cup blueberries fresh or thawed from frozen
- 1 cup strawberries diced
- 1 cup diced cucumber about ⅓ medium cucumber
- ¼ cup almonds or pecans chopped or whole, sub sunflower seeds if nut free
- ¼ cup mint leaves sliced or torn
- ¼ shallot very thinly sliced, omit for low FODMAP!
- 1 batch Creamy Balsamic Dressing
Instructions
- A little note on texture...I really love it A) when the spinach is torn into smaller pieces that fit easily on your fork and B) when the add ons are all roughly the same size as the blueberries, so dice the strawberries and cucumber smaller! But you do you...it will save you a few minutes if you don't chop the spinach and keep the other stuff larger!
- This salad is so so easy that it almost needs no instruction: just add the spinach, berries, nuts, shallot and mint to a large salad bowl and serve with dressing.
- You can either dress it RIGHT before serving or serve the salad with dressing on the side if you're expecting leftovers (it keeps better that way!). The creamy balsamic vinaigrette makes a LOT, and it keeps for ages in the fridge so you can use it for a couple of weeks.
Notes
This salad makes 4 side dish servings or 2 main dish servings, paired with a protein like baked or grilled tofu, or roasted chickpeas!
Low FODMAP? Ditch the shallot in the salad and the garlic in the vinaigrette and this salad is fully low FODMAP in either the side dish or the main dish serving. Looking for more low FODMAP recipes? I've got some on the blog and in my book, Good For Your Gut.