Summer Salad Recipe
This Summer Salad Recipe is full of delicious fresh ingredient and made perfect with my Lemon Poppyseed Dressing. This is a fast summer salad that you will want to bring to all the summer picnics and BBQs!
Servings: 6 people
Ingredients
Salad Ingredients
- 3 Romain hearts chopped
- 1 cup roasted walnuts see note #1
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 pint raspberries
- 10 small radishes washed, trimmed, and sliced thin
- 5 ounces goat cheese crumbled
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing
- 2/3 cup olive oil
- 1/3 cup lemon juice see note #2
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt (or just a pinch)
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1 tablespoon honey optional
Instructions
- Toss all of the salad ingredients.
- Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, sugar, salt, and mustard until the sugar is completely dissolved. Taste and add more lemon until it has enough of a lemon flavor for you. Add more honey if it becomes overwhelmingly acidic.
- Stir poppy seeds into the dressing.
- Serve salad dressing on the side and allow people to dress their salad to taste.
Notes
- Roast the walnuts at 400 degrees on a parchment lined baking sheet for 5 minutes to deepen their flavor. (Optional step.)
- The balance of sweet and acid in this salad dressing is really important. Start with 1/3 cup lemon juice. If it doesn't taste enough like lemon to you add a little more, about a teaspoon at a time. If you go too far, add a tablespoon of honey to counter balance it.