Appetizers / Soups / Salads

Garden Salad is for Dinner.

Garden Salad takes 10 minutes to prepare.

Garden Salad takes several minutes to cook.

Garden Salad makes 2 servings.

The ingredients for Garden Salad are:

6 large leaves of romaine lettuce
1 large tomato
1 sprig fresh basil
handful of freshly grated Gruyere cheese (or Parmesan, or Asiago, Jarlsberg, Cheddar, etc.)
Dressing:
squeeze the juice from one lemon, measure (I got 2 tablespoons) and put in a small glass jar
add 3 times as much virgin olive oil, in this case 6 tablespoons
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon salt

Here is how you make Garden Salad:

Tear the lettuce leaves into a salad bowl, roughly chop the tomato and add, and tear up the basil leaves and add to the bowl along with the grated cheese.Make the dressing, mix well and add 1 tablespoon of dressing to the salad bowl. [Save the extra dressing in the fridge for other salads or for use as a marinade. Use within a week.]Toss well, grind on some fresh pepper, and toss again.Serves two.Number of Servings: 2Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user HOLDINGON2.

The nutritional information for Garden Salad is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 2
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 128.7

• Total Fat: 10.1 g
• Cholesterol: 8.9 mg
• Sodium: 69.9 mg
• Total Carbs: 7.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.9 g
• Protein: 4.7 g

The dietary needs meet for Garden Salad is Vegetarian