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Filla UP Chop Salad

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Filla UP Chop Salad

Outlandishly Good Chop Salad

This chopped salad will wow your group! Or for me, I simply make a small version to spoil myself. The Salad ingredients are versatile, flexible and are tossed dry to start. To serve, each salad is dressed individually and plated. When I crave a salad, this is it! The best part is you can swap in and out ingredients based on your preference. Chop up enough leaf lettuce for each of your guests, and then small to medium amounts of each of the toppings equally, except for the onions.

Ingredients

Salad

Red Leaf lettuce chopped medium small

Spinach chopped medium

Egg - Hard boiled or scrambled

Red Onion - go light here or they overpower

Celery

Tomato - cherry or graped sliced in 1/2 or 1/4

Ham/Bacon or both - When I use ham I saute it with onions to try and get it a bit brown and crispy

Carrots - I used sticks and then chopped a bit

Radishes - Diced

Cucumbers - Diced

Cheese - Gorganzola or Cheddar. Gorganzola is preferred

Avocado - Optional

Mushrooms - Optional, not shown. some in my crew don’t like them

Green Olives - Optional, not shown

Chives or green onions - prefer chives as the add more of a subtle flavor

Dressing

1/2 cup sour cream, or Ranch dressing, or Ceasar dressing

2 tablespoons lemon juice

10 - 15 basil leaves minced well

1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 cloved minced garlic

Ground Pepper

Cayenne - optional or add to salads individually

Toppings

Prepared crispy onions - We used trader joes

And/Or

Small cubed Croutons - homemade or store bought

1.) toasted the cripsy onions in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes

2.) Prep the Dress by mixing ingredients together

3.) Prepare the salad ingredients and quantities you like and toss together - except for the tomatoes. The tomatoes can make your salad wilt if you don’t use it all at once.

4.) For each salad scoop out about 1 cup of your salad and 2 tablespoons of the dressing. Mix well, press it back into your measuring cup and then mound it gently in a salad bowl. Sprinkle the salad with either croutons or crispy onions. Enjoy.

5.) for our family I leave the tomatoes, eggs and avocados, cheese on the side and then when I toss each salad each person can select what they prefer.

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