Strawberry Avocado Salad with Lemon Poppyseed Vinaigrette
A delicious light healthy salad made with tender butter leaf lettuce and sweet strawberries!
Servings 6 servings
Ingredients
The Salad:
- 1 ½ heads butter leaf lettuce or your favorite baby greens
- 1 pint organic strawberries washed, stems removed and quartered
- 14/ cup roughly chopped mint leaves
- 6 green onions sliced
- 2 firm ripe avocados diced
- ½ cup crumbled feta or soft goat cheese
- ½ cup sliced almonds
Lemon Poppyseed Dressing:
- zest of one small lemon
- ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons honey
- sea salt pepper
- ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ½ T poppy seeds
Instructions
- Assemble ingredients for salad on a platter.
Dressing:
- Squeeze lemon juice into blender.
- Add honey, sea salt and pepper.
- Blend.
- Drizzle olive oil into blender very slowly.
- When dressing has emulsified (about 60 seconds) turn off blender.
- Pour dressing into mason jar. Add poppy seeds. Shake.
- Dress lightly and toss. Serve