Easy Blackberry Spinach Salad
This Blackberry Spinach Salad is one of the easiest salads you'll ever make. Topped with a ginger lime vinaigrette, or your own favorite vinaigrette, this salad packs a powerful punch on flavor while delivering a nourishing and satisfying salad for your meal.
Servings: 2
Calories: 370kcal
Ingredients
- 3 c fresh spinach
- 1 c blackberries
- 2 Tbsp sliced almonds, toasted
- 1/4 c Feta cheese, crumbled
For the Vinaigrette
- 2 tsp rice vinegar
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
- 2 tsp fresh minced or grated ginger
- 1 pinch red pepper (optional)
- 1 pinch kosher salt (taste before adding)
- 5 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
Toast the sliced almond
- Pre-heat oven to 350° F. Place sliced almonds on a small baking sheet in a single layer.
- Toast almonds in the heated oven for 6 to 7 minutes, until fragrant. Watch carefully as almonds burn easily. Remove from oven and let cool.
Make the vinaigrette
- In a small bowl, whisk together the rice vinegar, honey, lime juice, fresh ginger, red pepper and salt (if using). Slowly whisk in the olive oil until combined.
Assemble the salad
- Clean the spinach and blackberries.
- For each salad, place in a bowl 1 1/2 c. spinach, 1/2 cup blackberries, 1 Tbsp. sliced, toasted almonds, and 2 Tbsp. crumbled feta cheese.
- Top with prepared vinaigrette just before serving. **
Notes
**To prepare in advance, store in a lidded container in the refrigerator after assembling the salad. Top with the vinaigrette just before serving and not before.
**Calorie calculations include about 2 Tbsp. vinaigrette
**Makes about 1/4 c. of vinaigrette