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This spinach salad recipe is so flavorful, you'll want to make it often. Fresh spinach, red onion, navel oranges and smoky bacon create a mix of flavors and textures you will enjoy any time of the year.
The ingredient exchanges listed below will give you a variety of ideas to make several salads from this single recipe, as well as, an easy way to turn this spinach salad recipe into a meal fit for a vegetarian.
See the simple menu planner for great quick meal ideas.
2 servings
You will need 4 ingredients:
- Fresh Spinach
- Red Onion
- Navel Orange
- Bacon
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Ingredients:
fresh spinach - 6 cups washed and patted dry
red onion - 1 small onion cut in half and sliced thinly
navel orange - 1 large orange - peel, remove pith and
cut in between the membrane to remove each section
(as you remove the sections do all of your
cutting over a bowl and save the juice)
bacon - 3 to 4 strips cooked
(reserve the pan drippings)
(cook bacon as your last step because you want
drippings to be warm when you add them to the salad)
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1. In the bowl with the reserved juice from cutting the orange, add the spinach, onion and orange sections. Toss to combine.
2. Add the warm pan drippings from cooking the bacon to the bowl and toss spinach salad again to coat well and distribute evenly.
Use the serving suggestions below to serve the salad and crumble the bacon pieces and garnish each spinach salad with the bacon.
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Quick Meals - Menu Planner:
** For a quick and light meal serve this quick spinach salad recipe with warm breadsticks.
** This spinach salad makes a quick meal when served along with warm fettucini noodles tossed with olive oil and fresh grated cheese.
** This quick salad can also be paired with grilled steak or baked salmon.
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Ingredient Exchanges:
Instead of Red Onion:
*Leeks - 1 cup sliced thinly with rings separated or
*Red or White Radish - 1 cup thinly sliced
Instead of Orange:
*Mandarin Oranges - 1 small can in light syrup
(use 1/2 cup of syrup to dress salad)or
*Tangerines - 2 small (prepared the same as the orange) or
*Red Grapefruit - 1 small or 1/2 large (prepared the same as the orange)
Instead of Bacon:
*(For Vegetarians) Soy Bacon - 3 to 4 strips
prepared according to package directions
(add 1 tbsp of olive oil to substitute for the bacon drippings)
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Try the following additions to make this spinach salad more of a meal by itself.
*Hard Boiled Eggs - add 1 or 2 chopped or
*Cheese - sharp cheddar, munster or swiss (1 cup cut into chunks) or
*Tofu - great addition for the vegetarian (add 1 cup cut into cubes)
(try one of the flavored varieties)
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