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4 Fresh Salads For Spring

April 1, 2013 by Angie 11 Comments

 

I love salads and I eat them almost every day for lunch. My family prefers to eat salads over cooked veggies, so I often make a salad to go with  dinner. I find the salads that we enjoy the most are the simple salads made with only a handful of ingredients, and a favourite dressing. I want to share with you 4 fresh salads for Spring that are new favourites at  our house!

We are so lucky because a few weeks ago, the kind people at Kraft sent us 4 NEW dressings to try on our salads, which we were very happy to do! The new salad dressings are called Kraft Pourables and they are made with real fruits and vegetables. They are so good, and we loved them all so much that I actually made 4 salads with them to show off their bold, fresh taste. Their dressings also have no artificial flavors & colors, are low in fat & salt, and are between 25-30 calories per serving.The first dressing we tried was Berry Balsamic on a Strawberry & Goat Cheese Salad. The berry flavour was a perfect compliment to the strawberries, greens and goat cheese and I find that when making a salad with greens, you really want a nice bold tasting dressing to make the salad sing.
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Strawberry Goat Cheese Salad

Ingredients:
Field greens, washed
Strawberries, washed and sliced
Goat cheese, crumbled
Cinnamon spiced pecans, {optional}{ I bought mine at the grocery store.}
Kraft Pourables Berry Balsamic Dressing

Directions:
1. Place salad greens in a bowl. Add Kraft Pourables Berry Balsamic dressing and mix.
2. Add greens to a salad plate.
3. Sprinkle with sliced strawberries, crumbled goat cheese and pecans.
4. Serve immediately.

This salad was completely yummy!
 
The next salad I made was a Poached Egg on Asparagus Salad. Asparagus is one of my favorite spring vegetables and I especially love it steamed to a bright green color. The best thing about this salad is that I skipped the traditional rich hollandaise sauce and used the Kraft Pourable Garlic Parmesan with Roasted Cauliflower instead  so my salad wasn’t  high in calories or fat.
 
Asparagus with Poached Egg Salad
 
Ingredients:
Steamed asparagus
Poached egg
Kraft Pourable Garlic Parmesan with Roasted Cauliflower Dressing.
 
Directions:
1. Add hot steamed asparagus to a plate.
2. Slide the poached egg gently on top of asparagus.
3. Add fresh ground pepper to poached egg, if desired.
4. Drizzle with Garlic Parmesan with Roasted Cauliflower Dressing.
This salad was SO good and made the perfect lunch. The taste of the garlic and the parmesan was a great kick to the asparagus and the egg. Delicious!

This  next salad was made at my daughter’s request.  She absolutely adores avocados and eats them every day. She wanted a salad with avocado and grapefruit, so I made this just for her!

Avocado & Grapefruit Salad

Ingredients;
Greens, washed
Diced avocado
Fresh grapefruit, sectioned
Kraft Pourable Roasted Yellow Pepper, Garlic and Lime Dressing

Directions:
1. Add washed greens to a bowl. Mix with Roasted Yellow Pepper, Garlic & Lime Dressing.
2. Add salad greens to plate.
3. Sprinkle diced avocado and sectioned grapefruit.
4. Drizzle with more Roasted Yellow Pepper, Garlic & Lime Dressing, if desired.

I cannot tell you how wonderful this salad was! The Roasted Yellow Pepper, Garlic & Lime Dressing was the perfect partner for the grapefruit and avocado.
This plate of salad was gone in no time at all!
 
The last salad that we tried with the new Kraft Pourable Fire Roasted Tomato & Basil was this super simple cucumber & tomato salad, which is my husband’s favourite salad and we eat this a few times a week.
Simple Cucumber & Tomato Salad

 Simple Cucumber & Tomato Salad

Ingredients:
Sliced cucumber
Sliced tomoato
Diced red onion
Sliced green or black olived, optional
Salt & Pepper to taste
Kraft Pourables Fire Roasted Tomato with Basil

Directions:
1. In bowl, mix together cucumber, tomato, red onion & olives.
2. Season with salt & pepper.
3. Plate on salad plates or bowls.
4. Drizzle with Kraft Fire Roasted Tomato with Basil dressing.
5. Serve.

This salad was my husband’s favourite because he loves anything with a tasty tomato flavour, and this dressing delivered that bold flavour for him. My husband ate huge bowl of this salad with fish for dinner one night.

All of these salads served with the new Kraft Pourables were tasty and delicious!  I won’t hesitate at all to add any of them to my grocery cart. In fact, these 4 NEW Kraft Pourables are the new popular dressings at my house and are more than half gone already. I love how they are made with real fruits & vegetables too!
 

 


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Comments

  1. Grace @ Sense and Simplicity says

    April 1, 2013 at 9:19 am

    Well done on the salad inventing. The avocado and grapefruit looks especially tempting, but they all look good.

    Reply
  2. Mommy Moment says

    April 1, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    Mmm, those salads look wonderful! It's nice to get different ideas and now that Spring is here those salads are even more inviting!

    Reply
  3. Tammy inRdream says

    April 1, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    I gotta say I cannot wait for summer salads and I will be bookmarking yours to come back to.

    Your food photography is amazing.

    Reply
  4. Kerrie @ Family Food and Travel says

    April 1, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    wow! Those look so delicious I am getting hungry just looking at them. I have written them down to try this week. Thank you!

    Reply
  5. Jennifer Van Huss says

    April 1, 2013 at 5:29 pm

    Those all look great! I'd love to try the poached egg and asparagus! I would have never paired the too!

    Reply
  6. Mom vs. the boys says

    April 1, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    those all look really yummy, I've never had goat cheese in a salad before. I will have to give that a try!

    Reply
  7. Debbie Borthwick says

    April 1, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    We love cucumber, onion & tomato salads, usually with my homemade vinaigrette. But this sounds heavenly! And that asparagus salad?? That is the first thing I'm making when it is in season this spring!! I have to find these new Kraft pourables in the store, I've never heard of them before! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  8. Cindy says

    April 2, 2013 at 12:10 am

    Those all look and sound fabulous, especially the first and the last one. I have pinned them.
    Hugs, Cindy

    Reply
  9. Wendy S says

    April 2, 2013 at 12:58 am

    I saw these in the store today! That first one with the goat cheese looks so yummy!

    Reply
  10. Jocelyn says

    April 5, 2013 at 12:44 am

    We eat a lot of salads here too. I think I need to try one of your fun creations next though. They all look delicious!

    Reply
  11. House of Smiths says

    April 6, 2013 at 1:11 am

    Thanks so much for sharing your post at our linky party this week!
    These salads look so yummy, especially the Avocado and Grapefruit salad!
    xo

    Reply

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