What are your fav at-home salads with few (3-6) ingredients? Greens (bagged lettuce, etc.) might or might not be one of the ingredients, as might non-veg (tuna, bacon, h.c. egg, etc). I’m looking for something to throw together easily when I get home from work. Need I mention that I’m pretty lazy?
Caprese. Tomato, mozzarella, basil. Sprinkle with salt and olive oil.
In the summer, when you can buy tomatoes with taste, a simple tomato and cucumber salad (no lettuce) topped with feta is great. Not so great in the winter when tomatoes suck.
Here are some ideas. They’re my favorite things to top lettuce salads: dried cranberries or other berries; walnuts; pecans; grapes; cut-up leftover cold chicken breast; olives; celery; cherry tomatoes; mushrooms; bleu cheese; green onion; drained canned mandarin oranges; cut-up cold leftover delivered pizza (think of it as croutons).
Obviously not all these ingredients would go well together on a salad. Pick and choose.
Broccoli coleslaw, onion, tomato, chicken w/dressing of choice, all wrapped in a lavash.
Baby spinach, raspberry vinaigrette, Craisins, and shredded Asiago cheese.
Back in my meat-eating days:
Romaine lettuce, chopped up hard-boiled egg, chopped up bacon (or “real” bacon bits, not those hard little fake things, ew), croutons and Caesar dressing.
Green leaf lettuce with yellow grape tomatoes, whole wheat rotini, and walnuts. Dress with pressed garlic, olive oil and salt.
Good lordy I love that salad.
Greens of your choice, toasted walnuts, bleu cheese and dried cranberries topped with rasberry vinaigrette.
One of my favorites is baby spinach with cubed mango, and some sort of asian/ginger dressing.
Radish, chiccory, rocket and parmesan. Needs a dressing - cider vinegar, olive oil and black pepper maybe.
Green lettuce, topped with grated parmesan (the good kind), squeeze some lemon on top, add olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I could eat it all day as a snack.
Another good one is tomatoes (when they’re in season), chopped onions, salt and oil. It’s even better when you prepare it and then let it rest in the fridge a few hours. You can add some feta or olives too.
This is more or less exactly what I was coming in here to post. I use a balsamic vinaigrette, instead, and gorgonzola cheese, but basically the same salad.
Greek - chopped tomatoes, red onions, red pepper, feta cheese, and black olives dressed with the juice of one lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper and served over baby spinach.
Little field greens, heavy on the baby spinach, with sliced strawberries and/or mandarin orange sections, balsamic vinaigrette. This is my summer favorite. I find adding sliced bosc pear or apple to any green salad extends and improves it.