Summer Cook-out Salad
Amy’s Summer Cook-out Salad
This recipe is inspired by one of my favorite local farm to table restaurants – MT Local. It is a fantastic salad that can be paired easily with a summer barbecue protein – grilled chicken, steak, shrimp or fish.
Salad Ingredients:
- 5 oz. container of spring greens
- 3 cups of kale, hard stalks removed and thinly shredded
- 7.5 oz jar marinated artichoke hearts
- 2 medium zucchini, thinly sliced lengthwise
- ½ medium red onion, diced
- 1.5 cups marinated mushrooms (You can make your own, but I like to pick-up mushrooms and olives at the antipasto bar at Whole Foods.)
- 1 cup Kalamata olives
- 1.5 cup grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 medium cucumber, sliced
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- feta cheese (optional)
- olive oil for brushing
Balsamic vinaigrette dressing:
- ¼ cup good quality balsamic vinegar
- 1 clove garlic, pressed
- 1 tsp. honey
- 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
- ¾ cup olive oil
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
Prepare grill. Brush artichoke hearts and zucchini slices with olive oil and grill on both sides until lightly charred. Roll the grilled zucchini slices and set aside.
Mix greens and kale and place in wide salad bowl. Top greens with each of the salad toppings in sections. Before serving, drizzle with dressing.
Amy Medling, best-selling author of Healing PCOS and certified health coach, specializes in working with women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), who are frustrated and have lost all hope when the only solution their doctors offer is to lose weight, take a pill, and live with their symptoms. In response, Amy founded PCOS Diva and developed a proven protocol of supplements, diet, and lifestyle programs that offer women tools to help gain control of their PCOS and regain their fertility, femininity, health, and happiness.
