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Best Layered Salad

Best Layered Salad is so quick and easy to make ! Low-fat too and the best layered salad I have ever tasted and you can make it ahead of time ! The dressing (more a sauce topping) is to die for delicious.

Best Layered Salad

This is the best Layered Salad I have ever had, and that is saying a lot, seeing as we are a family who practically lives on salads.

No strange ingredients, but this combination is just wow ! To be honest, I would say the creamy dressing, which is more like a thick sauce, makes this salad. One taste and you will be hooked.

A couple of days after we had this salad the first time, we had some snacks. But I had forgotten to get our usual dips and I also were not in the mood to make something complicated.

I then remembered this dressing-sauce, and made a batch for dipping. What a surprise, it was delicious, so now we not only have a new dressing, but a sauce and a dip all in one.

Best Layered Salad

No need to feel guilty afterwards as well, as the salad ingredients are diet-friendly to most diet plans I know of and the dressing-sauce is made with low-fat Cottage Cheese.

Therefore, dig in, I surely did as did my health conscience mom-in-law who lives with us now.

Best Layered Salad

The only bit of cooking is the sauteing of the Onion and Mushroom, but that takes only a couple of minutes and you can get it ready in advance.

How many layers ?

As I am typing this post, I quickly counted the layers, I count eleven layers. Which makes it the most layers in a salad I have ever seen.

Ten layers, yes, seen that, but I have never really looked at the ingredients of layered salads until I made this best Layered Salad.

Best Layered Salad

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I made the salad a day in advance once, covered the bowl with plastic wrap and it was still fresh, crispy, crunchy and delicious the following day.

As long as you do not mix up all the ingredients, and cover the bowl well, this will make a fantastic picnic or potluck salad.

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Best Layered Salad

Best Layered Salad

Best Layered Salad

Linda Nortje
Best Layered Salad is so quick and easy to make ! Low-fat too and the best layered salad I have ever tasted and you can make it ahead of time ! The dressing (more a sauce topping) is to die for delicious.
4.72 from 7 votes
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Salad
Cuisine American
Servings 12 Servings
Calories 158 kcal

Ingredients
  

SALAD:

  • 1 TB Vegetable Oil
  • 1 Onion finely chopped
  • 250 g Mushrooms sliced ( 8 oz )
  • 1 ½ cups Lettuce shredded
  • 1 cup Mixed Bean Sprouts
  • 1 cup Celery Ribs chopped
  • 1 Red Bell Peppers chopped
  • 2 Yellow Bell Peppers chopped
  • 2 cups Frozen Peas defrosted
  • 2 cups Frozen Corn defrosted

DRESSING:

  • 3 TB Brown Onion Soup Powder
  • 1 cup Low-Fat Cottage Cheese smooth, plain
  • 3 TB Low-Fat 1000 Island Salad Dressing

TOPPING:

  • 1 cup Cheddar Cheese grated (low-fat if preferred)
  • ½ cup Fresh Chives chopped

Instructions
 

  • Heat the Oil in a pan – saute the Onion until soft – add the Mushrooms and stir-fry until soft and golden – remove from heat and let cool
  • SALAD : Start your layers in this order : Lettuce, Bean Sprouts, Celery, Red Bell Pepper, Yellow Bell Pepper, Peas, Corn and the cooled Mushroom mixture
  • DRESSING / TOPPING: Combine the Soup Powder, Cottage Cheese and Salad Dressing – spoon over the Mushrooms, followed by the Cheddar and ending with sprinkling over the Chives
Nutrition Facts
Best Layered Salad
Amount per Serving
Calories
158
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
6
g
9
%
Saturated Fat
 
2
g
13
%
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
3
g
Cholesterol
 
11
mg
4
%
Sodium
 
495
mg
22
%
Carbohydrates
 
19
g
6
%
Fiber
 
4
g
17
%
Sugar
 
6
g
7
%
Protein
 
8
g
16
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition value, where given, is not always accurate. Please also check your ingredient labels.

Serve chilled.

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Carlee Scharnhorst

Saturday 27th of June 2015

This looks delicious! I love the mushroom layers as well!

Evelyn Osborn

Thursday 25th of June 2015

Love that you added a layer of sauted onion and mushroom to this awesome salad!!

Jamie Sherman

Tuesday 23rd of June 2015

I could live on salads - especially layered salads! I love this version and I think 11 layers is the most I've seen too! Delish salad, Linda!

Çağnur Işır

Tuesday 23rd of June 2015

very good choices

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