| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 10 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup Asian Vinaigrette (recommended: Newman’s Own)
- 2 tablespoons syrup from canned lychees
- 1 scallion, finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
- 1 (9-ounce) package baby spinach (recommended: Fresh Express)
- 1 (8-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained and liquid reserved (recommended: La Choy)
- 1/2 (20-ounce) can lychees in syrup, juice reserved (recommended: Golden Star)
- 1/4 cup real bacon crumbles
- 2 large hard-boiled eggs, peeled and quartered
Instructions
- In a jar or sealable container, combine vinaigrette and 2 tablespoons reserved lychee juice, scallion, red pepper flakes, and sesame seeds. Shake vigorously; set aside.
- Add spinach and water chestnuts to a large bowl. Add dressing and toss. Top with lychees, bacon bits, and eggs.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 261 |
| Total Fat | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Carbohydrates | 23 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Sugar | 14 g |
| Protein | 7 g |
| Cholesterol | 98 mg |
| Sodium | 134 mg |
Reviews
My husband saw you make this recently and asked if I’d make it. Finding the lychees was a bit of an adventure as we’re very new to this area. However the search led me to an awesome Asian market as well as a City Market. Salad was great. Even my picky 4 year old gobbled it up and asked for more ‘lychee’! Thanks Sandra Lee!
this is a nice and different salad. i have done it with logans as well as lychees.
because i don’t like eggs, i substitued those little tiny canned corn ears
that you find in the oriental section of the grocery. they provide the nice color-
without being and “egg”.
because i don’t like eggs, i substitued those little tiny canned corn ears
that you find in the oriental section of the grocery. they provide the nice color-
without being and “egg”.
This recipe gave me a yeast infection. That was fun.
I thought the Leeches were good next to the baby spinach, but I would’ve like to have seen her use “Adult Spinach” next time. I really didn’t care for the har-bowled eggs, but that’s just me. It’s still a good salad. Thanks, Sandy 🙂
The recipe says to reserve the liquid from the canned water chestnuts after draining (“can sliced water chestnuts, drained and liquid reserved”), but it never says what to do with the liquid. On the show, Sandra drained the water chestnuts through a strainer over the sink, so it didn’t look like she did anything with it.