Quick, simple, healthful, and resembling a fancy restaurant’s salad menu. It can be placed on the plate alongside the meal or as a salad to be served prior.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 20 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 (5 ounce) packages arugula
- ¼ cup roughly chopped cilantro
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- ¼ cup shaved Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Toss arugula and cilantro together in a large salad bowl. Drizzle arugula mixture with lemon juice, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes and black pepper; toss salad again. If desired, add more lemon juice, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, red pepper flakes, and black pepper to taste.
- Sprinkle salad with Parmesan cheese shavings and toss again to serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 54 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 4 g |
| Cholesterol | 4 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 106 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My new favorite!
I love arugula and this recipe was spot on. My boys enjoyed it as well.
Delicious and easy to make salad. I could eat this every day.
Light and easy..great as a side w pizza..I used all natural lemon vinaigrette pre made dressing and added toasted walnuts
This is so easy and delicious! I love arugula and have it growing in my garden this summer. Looking forward to making this often.
Doubled the lemon juice, olive oil and vinegar. Used serrano honey balsamic vinegar from one of those olive oil and vinegar shops. Gave it a nice kick.
This is a nice salad. The flavor is fresh and such a nice start to a dinner. It is in my rotation.
Made this today it was awesome omitted the black pepper!
I really loved this salad. Unfortunately, my hubby did not like it….he is still at war with leafy greens 🙁 BUT I LOVED IT so I know I have a new favorite salad for myself for whenever I want to have a different kind of leafy green salad. I omitted the red pepper flakes as I can not eat spicy things and it was perfect! Maybe next time I will add dijon mustard to the dressing to give it a kick without too much heat!
I love rocket 🙂
Yum! I added more dressing (2 tblsp of each liquid ingredient) as suggested by other reviewers, and added some diced jicama for crunch. When I tasted it, the nutty flavor of the arugula prompted me to add some sliced almonds for even more crunch! Did I mention I like crunchy foods? This was awesome on the plate with some grilled salmon steaks and brown rice!
Served with marinated flank steak, and mixed together was very tasty. Only rated it a 4 because pepper flakes made dressing way too hot. Will omit next time (although hubby like how hot it was.) Didn’t have cilantro on hand, so it was just arugula, but very tasty. Dressing was nice and light otherwise.
Be sure to make this dressing several hours before mixing it with the arugula. I found it much better after it sat for a while! I also think that there is not enough dressing for this amount of greens, so at least double it. I also missed some salt in the directions. I dearly love both arugula and cilantro, so for me this is a beautiful salad. The dressing is all that needs a few tweaks! Thanks for this dish!