Italian Chopped Salad Recipe
Description
How to make a chopped salad. This is the best & most beautiful way to serve your favorite Italian chopped salad ingredients. Make it today!
Ingredients
Salad Ingredients
- Romaine Lettuce chopped
- Iceberg Lettuce chopped
- Parmigiano Reggiano grated into large shavings
- Garbanzo Beans marinated in vinaigrette for 30 minutes or more prior to assembly
- Cherry Tomatoes sliced in half
- Salami in slices
- Pepperoncinis chopped
- Cucumber peeled & chopped
- Kalamata Olives or Italian Marinated Olives chopped
- Basil sliced & chopped
Dressing Ingredients
- Olive Oil
- Balsamic, Red Wine or White Wine Vinegar
- Salt & Pepper
- Dried Oregano and or Dried Basil
Instructions
- Make salad dressing with 3 parts vinegar and 1 part olive oil. Add salt, pepper and dried herbs to taste. I suggest starting with 6 tbsp oil to 2 tbsp vinegar to uphold the ratio.
- Open canned garbanzo beans, drain and rinse. Then, marinate in store-bought Italian dressing or some of the salad dressing mixture noted above. You could also wing it and just drizzle olive oil, salt & pepper over the beans. Let sit for 30 minutes up to 24 hours.
- Wash & dry all produce
- Chop produce
- Depending on if you are making Option 1 or Option 2, put out your chopped lettuce into a side serving bowl or line the bottom of the board with your lettuce
- Line up all ingredients in rows. Be mindful of color order. One order option is: cumber, basil, Parmigiano Reggiano, tomatoes, garbanzo beans (in the middle), salami, more Parmigiano Reggiano, pepperoncinis, then olives.
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