This salad is excellent and works well with any dinner, particularly Italian!
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup blanched slivered almonds
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 1 head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
- 1 head red leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
- 1 (8 ounce) package crumbled feta cheese
- 1 (4 ounce) can sliced black olives
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 red onion, halved and thinly sliced
- 6 fresh mushrooms, sliced
- ¼ cup grated Romano cheese
- 1 (8 ounce) bottle Italian salad dressing
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Place the almonds in the skillet, and cook, stirring frequently until lightly browned. When the almonds are beginning to turn, add sesame seeds, and cook 1 more minute, or until seeds are toasted.
- In a large salad bowl, combine lettuce with feta cheese, olives, almonds, sesame seeds, tomatoes, onion, mushrooms, and Romano cheese. When ready to serve, toss with Italian dressing.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 204 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 9 g |
| Cholesterol | 19 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 7 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 639 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Great salad recipe. Not a fan of bottled Italian dressing, so I make my own. Also used green olives instead of the black. Cut the ingredients back to serve two. So good! Will make again for company. Always wash my lettuce using a salad spinner and ice water. Crispy every time and worth the few extra minutes that it takes. You can also buy boxes of baby green lettuce, which will keep for a week and produces a crisp salad. Not an inexpensive alternative, but worth it if you’re pressed for time.
My wife loves tossed salad. For days, and nights, afterward she talked about nothing else. My wife looks forward to this “recipe”. It brings a smile to anyone’s face.
I have made this salad twice with great reviews both times. It’s a keeper!
It took a little longer to make, but that’s just me. Left off the dressing so everyone had their own choice. Very colorful. I’ll do it again but add some green olives. A lot of compliments. Thanks for sharing
Used pepitas instead of sesame seeds
This was the best salad ever! Took a bit of prep time, but so worth it. The tastes were amazing, I also added cranberries. Couldn’t get enough reviews from it. Great job, smokin’ excellent salad!
Made this salad as written, but had only kalamata olives, so of course used them. Everyone enjoyed it.
Great combination of flavors. I get compliments on this salad whenever I serve it.
This salad is a classic. I generally make it exactly as submitted and it always gets rave reviews.
Very easy and simple delicious salad. Very nutritious too.
When I think “classic” I surely don’t think “bottled dressing”! but the ingredients were spot on, and we do enjoy finely sliced red onion. Make your own oil/vinegar dressing: you’ll know what goes into your dressing and it will be a “classic”. 🙂
This is a “classic”. I always substitute bleu cheese for the feta (matter of personal preference) and use any bottled salad dressing. Going to add a couple of anchovies next time.
What a great salad! Really couldn’t believe how tasty this was and will be repeating it frequently over the upcoming summer months. Thanks for posting this awesome recipe.
Delicious. I thought I had a red onion at hand but didn’t…….that was the only thing I had to leave out. Very good.
I omitted the olives, used mozza instead of Romano cheese, and used a bought balsamic dressing. I made this for Thanksgiving and everyone loved it!
I loved making this salad!! I made it for my entire family because we wanted to try something new and it hit the spot!! Definitely will be making the salad again anytime!! Thanks for the awesome recipe 🙂
I have made this salad so many times. I always have more than one person ask me for the recipe. When invited to a potluck or family gathering I am always asked to bring this salad. I make it exactly like the recipe states but sometimes I don’t add all the dressing. This is a personal preference since I don’t care for lots of dressing. The almonds give a nice flavor.
I loved this salad! I didn’t use the sesame seeds and used a bag of Almond Accents oven roasted almonds (not flavored) so I skipped the cooking part and used grape tomatos instead of cherry, but left everything else the same. I will make this again for sure. Flavors were wonderful and goes perfect with italian meal!
I realize this is just a salad, but can I say WOW? I did omit mushrooms and sesame seeds (did not have) and added sunflower seeds. I also did not have italian dressing so I used Balsamic instead. Absolutely the best salad I have ever eaten! Thanks!
Our new favorite salad! Every bite is a new flavor, this salad will never be boring!
GREAT!