Creative Cooking for the Health-Conscious Gourmet
Low-Calorie | Low-Cholesterol
Healthy Strawberry Spinach Salad
This recipe is perfect for lunch or served with dinner and appropriate for low-calorie, low-cholesterol, and ovo-vegetarian diet regimens.
Ingredients:
10 oz fresh spinach
1 qt fresh strawberries, cleaned and sliced
0.5 cup candied pecans
1/3 cup mayonnaise
0.25 cup sugar
3 tbsp apple-cider vinegar
Kosher salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
Directions:
Place spinach, strawberries, and pecans in a large salad bowl.
Whisk together remaining ingredients.
Pour over salad. Toss well.
Nutritional Information
Servings: 4
Nutrition Facts Per serving
Calories: 221
Total fat: 16g
Saturated fat: 1.5 g
Trans fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 7 mg
Sodium: 267 mg
Potassium: 637 mg
Total carbohydrates: 32 g
Dietary fiber: 5.2 g
Sugars: 22.0 g
Protein: 3.8 g
Chef and Author: Justin Gillette
Medically Reviewed by FibonacciMD editors.
Editor's comment:
Although this is already a low-calorie, low cholesterol recipe, using low-fat mayonnaise would turn this into a low-fat recipe too.