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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

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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Course Salad

Cuisine American

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

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Servings 12 Servings

Calories 158 kcal

Ingredients

  

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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.