Are you a salad lover or a salad hater? I am a salad lover. I particularly love a Chef's Salad with homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing. I frequently eat a big bowl of Chef's Salad for dinner.
Back about 18 months ago, I would occasionally eat a salad with dinner. Then I went on a diet. Yes, after years of food blogging I needed to lose some weight (shocker!) and get a few other issues in check before they became big issues.
So I went on a low carb diet. Well, this Chef's Salad kept me from going crazy. Before I started making my own Chef's Salads I would buy one from a local restaurant every once in awhile.
Even though that huge salad would feed me for two meals I got tired of spending $12 bucks on a salad I could make for myself at home. Plus for the same $12 I could buy enough ingredients to make much more than a 2 serving salad.
Making a Chef's Salad is pretty much like any other salad. You throw all the ingredients into a bowl and pour on some dressing.
The difference is in the ingredients. As you can see from the pictures a Chef's Salad has pretty basic salad ingredients except for the addition of a hardboiled egg, black olives and a couple of pepperoncini peppers.
This particular salad doesn't have any tomatoes in it but that is only because I didn't happen to have any tomatoes the day I made it. I'll add tomatoes if I have them.
If you like a sweet and crunchy salad Green Apple Salad with walnuts is delicious option. And if you like chicken in your salad you can try this Autumn Chicken Cobb Salad.
A salad spinner is a wonderful gadget to have on hand if you eat a lot of salads. I own one and use it every time I make a Chef's Salad. Properly washing fresh produce, especially lettuce is very important.
If you don't have a salad spinner you can pat the lettuce dry with some paper towels for the time being. Then head over to Amazon and buy a salad spinner. It will make washing your salad greens so much easier.
If you don't have a salad spinner you can pat the lettuce dry with some paper towels for the time being. Then head over to Amazon and buy a salad spinner. It will make washing your salad greens so much easier.
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I had a pump style salad spinner like this one that I loved. It was so easy to use.
I'm not sure what happened to it but I picked up a new one that was a crank type salad spinner.
You get a work out on this one which could be a good thing. But the pump style salad spinner was so much easier to use.
Ingredients
- 1 large head of Romain Lettuce or 2 heads Baby Romain
- ½ a head Iceberg Lettuce
- green pepper cut into slices
- onion, sliced
- tomato sliced or cut into wedges
- cucumber, peeled and sliced
- black olives, sliced
- hard boiled egg, cut into wedges
- pepperoncini peppers
- ham
- turkey
- provolone cheese
Directions
- Wash and dry the lettuce.
- Cut the ice burg lettuce into bite size pieces and spin it in a salad spinner to remove all the water from washing.
- Cut or tear the romaine lettuce and give it a spin in the salad spinner.
- Toss the two types of lettuce together in a large bowl.
- Place the tossed lettuce into a salad bowl for each serving.
- Top each salad bowl with some green pepper, onion, and cucumber.
- Place one hardboiled egg onto each salad.
- For each serving of salad roll a piece of deli ham, turkey and cheese into a roll. Cut into slices and place on top of the salad.
- Top with the black olives.
- Place 2 peppers into each salad bowl.
- Drizzle on your favorite Ranch Dressing and serve.
- Makes 4 large salads.
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How to Make a Chef's Salad
Ingredients
- 1 Head Romain Lettuce
- 1 Head Iceberg Lettuce
- 1 Medium green pepper cut into slices
- 1 Small onion (sliced)
- 1 Medium tomato sliced or cut into wedges
- 1 small cucumber (peeled and sliced)
- 1 handful Black olives (sliced)
- 1 large hard boiled egg (cut into wedges)
- 4 medium pepperoncini peppers
- 2 slices deli ham
- 2 slices deli turkey breast
- 2 slices Provolone cheese
Instructions
- Wash and dry the lettuces.
- Cut the iceberg lettuce into bite size pieces and spin it in a salad spinner to remove all the water from washing. Cut or tear the romaine lettuce and give it a spin in the salad spinner.
- Toss the two types of lettuce together in a large bowl.
- Place the tossed lettuce into a salad bowl for each serving. Top each salad bowl with some green pepper, onion, and cucumber. Place one hardboiled egg onto each salad.
- For each serving of salad roll a piece of deli ham, turkey and cheese into a roll. Cut into slices and place on top of the salad.
- Top with the black olives. Place 2 peppers into each salad bowl.
- Drizzle on your favorite Ranch Dressing and serve.
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