**With the New Year in full swing and all of you highly motivated followers with your resolutions, I figured it was a great time to repost my favorite salad recipe. This Italian Salad is both healthy and delicious. A perfect recipe to keep you trudging ahead with your healthy eating! Enjoy! **
We just recently returned home from a mini vacation to Mahoney State Park with my parents, my sisters and their families. We had a great time enjoying the outdoors and spending time together. Now that there is a herd of grandkids, vacation meals look a little differently than they use too. Instead of long dinners out at a restaurant, we opt for homemade meals in our cabins, where there is minimal prep and the kids can run free.
This year we set themes for the evening meals and each of us took an evening to “host”. I was in charge of the Italian night. I made lasagna and simple Italian meatballs before we left and froze them for a no prep main course. Threw some spaghetti and sauce on the stove that evening and coerced my oldest sister into making a salad. Boy, did she make a good one! Good enough to get the recipe and share with you! This salad as well the Sugared Almond and Strawberry Salad I posted about last week, have moved into the rankings with some of my favorites!
- 2 Large romaine hearts, chopped
- 1 celery rib, thinly sliced
- ½ small red onion, thinly sliced
- ½ cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- ¼ cup pitted black olives
- 8 pepperoncini
- 1 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, shaved
- Dressing
- 1 garlic cloves smashed
- 2 Tbs mayonnaise
- 2 Tbs red wine vinegar
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- ¼ cup plus 2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- Add salad ingredients to large bowl.
- Just before serving pour dressing over top of salad and toss well.
- Serve right away.
Thank you for sharing this!!! It was absolutely the best salad ever!! I never comment on any posts but had too it was that good and I even messed up the dressing by reading the amount of the oil wrong . But I managed to fix it !! The dressing is AWESOME!!!! My company raved about it !!! So did my husband!!!
Judy, thanks so much for your kind comment. You just made my day! Glad you liked the salad it is one of my favorites! 🙂
So glad you shared this, I brought it to a Fathers Day/Birthday celebration yesterday , it was a huge hit!! I do have a question, I’m trying to figure out weight watchers points, do you know how many servings this make?
Thanks, Claudia
Hi Claudia! So glad you liked this salad. It’s been a hit everytime I take it places too. Servings would be 4-6 depending on how big your romaine hearts are. ?. Thanks for reading our blog
Thank you for the info. I am actually making it again tonight for dinner. Yummm!!!
Didn’t add my rating.