Green Salad with Cantaloupe and Blue Cheese
A crisp Green Salad with Cantaloupe and Blue Cheese is the perfect summer side salad! The Creamy Orange Champagne Vinaigrette tops off the salad.
Servings: 4 Servings
Ingredients
- 6 cups salad greens
- 2 cups fresh mint sprigs and leaves
- 1 cup red radicchio leaves torn
- 1/2 small red onion thinly sliced
- 3 cups cantaloupe cubed
- 4 oz. blue cheese crumbled
- 8 oz. roasted walnut halves
- 1/4 cup Creamy Orange Champagne Dressing
Instructions
- Rinse and spin-dry the greens and tip into a large salad bowl. Add the mint leaves, radicchio and red onion, toss to combine.
- Distribute the cantaloupe, blue cheese and walnut halves on top of the greens. Drizzle the dressing on the salad and toss to combine. Serve immediately.
Notes
- Choose a variety of leafy salad greens such as butter lettuce, oak leaf, frisée, baby spinach or arugula.
- Pass on the pre-crumbled blue cheese and buy a chunk and crumble it yourself.
- Tear the salad greens directly into the basket of the salad spinner, then set the basket into a pan of ice water, rinse, drain and then spin them dry.
- This salad an be made a couple hours in advance without the dressing added. Cover the salad with a damp towel and refrigerate until ready to toss with the dressing and serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 237kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 442mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 12g
