Even vegetable haters are requesting more of this garlicky broccoli recipe! When you just have time for the microwave on some nights, it’s ideal.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 servings |
Ingredients
- 6 cups fresh spinach, rinsed and dried
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- ½ cup walnut halves
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 1 pound top round steak, thinly sliced
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
Instructions
- Arrange spinach on a large plate. Sprinkle with cranberries and walnuts, and arrange tomato slices on top. Set aside.
- In a non-stick skillet (or a regular skillet coated with non-stick spray) cook steak over medium heat until no pink remains and steak is thoroughly cooked.
- Arrange cooked steak over salad. Sprinkle salt and pepper on top, and drizzle with your favorite dressing. Note: I suggest using a light flavored dressing. Citrus dressings taste especially good on this salad!
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 620 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 121 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 53 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 135 mg |
| Sugars | 22 g |
| Fat | 32 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is great! I cooked the beef in my slow cooker to get it really tender and then served the salad with all the ingredients in separate dishes so people could choose the proportions they wanted. It was delicious with poppy seed dressing!
As written, it’s probably not more than a 3 star salad. Round steak is just too tough for this, and any steak will need SEASONING. I used a sirloin, seasoned well with coarse salt, cracked pepper, and onion powder, seared it in a scorching hot cast iron pan to medium rare, and let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing. I also added crumbled Amish blue cheese to my salad, and served with a balsamic vinaigrette. We loved the results and ate the whole (giant!) bowl.
Good combination of spinach and beef. But I prefer a recipe with specific instruction for dressing and spice. That would be more helpful.
This is a fantastic recipe! I changed it slightly by adding candied walnut pieces, crumbled Gorgonzola cheese and tossed it with lemon juice and drizzled a raspberry vinaigrette over it all. Yum and yum!!
I like a lot of salads, but this one was different, and quite tasty. I made it exactly as written – I had a little more steak, 1.14# of top round, but it was probably less than a pound after cooking (a decent amount of melted fat was left in the skillet). As suggested, I used a citrus dressing, in fact made with another recipe from this website. My only quibble is that I think this is at least 4 servings, not the listed 2. I had two platefuls for dinner, and I had the rest for lunch and dinner the next day. It was nice when the steak was hot, but also good the next day when everything was refrigerated. It was that good, and probably worth making again sometime. Thanks for a nice entree salad.
this was an excellent use for a leftover rib eye steak! I added feta cheese and a few slices of cucumber, topping it off with raspberry vinaigrette. Yummy!
Make this salad at least once a month and use the same dressing from the sweet spinach salad with mandarin oranges. It’s a perfect yummy salad with no changes needed.
Awesome! So glad I tried it out. I didn’t have any tomatoes, which worked fine. I did add feta cheese and used raspberry vinaigrette to go with the cranberries. For a less sweet alternative, I skipped the cranberries and used Italian dressing. That was great, too! Both ways I combined spinach and a pre-packaged salad mix which went very well together.
This salad was out of this world. I made some changes at the suggestion of others. I added red onion and used gorgonzola cheese. Instead of walnuts I used pine nuts and I toasted them before adding them to the salad. I also used a Rasberry Vinaigrettte dressing. I will definately make again.
My family enjoyed this
This was excellent, so tasty with a wonderful combination of flavours. The only thing I added was crumbled feta as per other reviews. Will be making again and again. Thanks so much for sharing this great recipe.
Excellent combination of taste and texture. I didn’t have any walnuts left so used sliced almonds instead. Hubby said it looked too good to eat!
Great idea, but I don’t like the combination of cranberries, walnuts, steak and tomatoes.
We really enjoyed this salad as a main course, adding Parker House rolls to round out the meal. From adults to little kids, we all loved the flavor combination. The only changes we made were to use cherry tomatoes after reading some of the posts, and we grilled the steak instead of frying it. Thanks for a great recipe!
Delicious salad. I made it by the recipe, took the photo, and then added crumbled feta afterwards (as recommended by other cooks).
Although some might like cranberries and walnuts, it’s not for me in the salad. But the raw fresh spinach and beef are appetetizing. Used thinly carved sirloin, cherry tomatoes halved, and of course bleu cheese. Dressing is up to the individual. A fresh vinegarette or Bleu Cheese compliments the beef. Warming the beef is fine, but don’t get rid of that pink!
620 calories without the dressing and 32 g of fat!!! I would never eat such unhealthy sallad.
The secret to this is,the steak should be at least 1″ thick.When cooked you slice it very thin at 45% angle.
Great recipe! if you want to use a cheaper cut of steak but want it tender slice your steak and cook in the slow cooker with beef broth and spices while you are at work. Drain and use the steak slices for your salad. Quick and easy dinner and the meat is very tender without the cost
I followed some suggestions like crumbled blue cheese and red onion…AWESOME!!!!
I make a salad similar to this but grill the steak outside and make sure it’s crusty outside and nice and rare within. For a sauce I mix an 8oz container of sour cream with a small grated apple, grated ginger and horseradish. Salt and pepper to taste.