Strawberry Spinach Salad

By Maria Lichty

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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Strawberry Balsamic Dressing – spinach salad with fresh strawberries, avocado, candied pecans, red onion, feta cheese, and a simple strawberry dressing. The perfect salad for spring and summer!

strawberry spinach salad with avocado, candied pecans, feta cheese, and red onion in bowl with strawberry balsamic dressing on the side.

Strawberry season is my favorite season. I love red, juicy, sweet strawberries. They are one of my very favorite fruits. During strawberry season, I make as many strawberry recipes as I can: strawberry shortcake, strawberry scones, strawberry smoothies , and this Strawberry Spinach Salad.

This is one of those salads that you will fall in love with after one bite, maybe even one look because it is so pretty. It is just a GOOD salad. It is the perfect salad for spring and summer and goes great with any meal and can be served at any occasion.

It is a great one for baby showers, bridal showers, BBQ’s, potlucks, pool parties, or any holiday. You can also make it for lunch or a simple dinner. Feel free to add grilled chicken if you want to make a meal out of it. You can’t go wrong with this strawberry spinach salad. Everyone loves it!

strawberry balsamic dressing for strawberry spinach salad in jar with spoon on side.

Strawberry Balsamic Dressing

Let’s start with the dressing. The fresh strawberry balsamic dressing is SO SO good. It may sound fancy, but it only takes a few minutes to blend up! That’s right, everything goes in the blender and voila, you have a gourmet salad dressing that is SO much better than any store bought dressing.

  • To make the dressing, add the strawberries, olive oil, vinegar, honey, salt and pepper to a blender. Blend until smooth. Set aside.
  • If you need the salad dressing to be vegan, you can use pure maple syrup instead of honey.
  • The dressing will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days. Whisk well before using.
strawberry spinach salad in white serving bowl with dressing being poured on top.

Salad Ingredients

For the salad, you will need:

  • Spinach– I love using fresh spinach for this salad, but any greens will work.
  • Strawberries– the star of the salad!
  • Avocado– avocado makes every salad better!
  • Red onion– I love the pop of color!
  • Feta cheese– goat cheese is another good option. And if you need the salad to be vegan, you can leave off the cheese.
  • Candied Pecans– I love making candied pecans for this salad. The sweet crunch is so nice! I always make them in advance and keep then in a jar in my pantry. You can use regular pecans or even almonds, pistachios, or candied walnuts.

How to Make Strawberry Spinach Salad

Once the dressing is made, it is GO TIME!

  • To assemble the salad, place the spinach, strawberries, avocado, red onion, cheese, and candied pecans in a large bowl.
  • When ready to serve, drizzle with dressing and toss. It’s that simple!
  • Alternatively, you can plate the salads and serve the dressing on the side.
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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Strawberry Dressing

Spinach salad with fresh strawberries, avocado, candied pecans, red onion, feta cheese, and a simple strawberry dressing. The perfect salad for spring and summer!
4.48 from 34 votes

Ingredients
  

For the strawberry dressing:

For the strawberry spinach salad:

  • 8 ounces fresh spinach
  • 2 cups sliced strawberries
  • 1 large avocado, sliced
  • 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
  • 2/3 cup crumbled feta cheese or goat cheese
  • 2/3 cup roughly chopped candied pecans or pecans

Instructions
 

  • To make the dressing, add the strawberries, olive oil, vinegar, honey, mustard, salt and pepper to a blender. Blend until smooth. Set aside.
  • To assemble the salad, place the spinach, strawberries, avocado, red onion, cheese, and pecans in a large bowl. When ready to serve, drizzle with dressing and toss. Alternatively, you can plate the salads and serve the dressing on the side.

Notes

Feel free to add cooked crumbled bacon or use almonds, walnuts, or pistachios instead of pecans.

Nutrition

Calories: 295kcal, Carbohydrates: 20g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 23g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 15mg, Sodium: 275mg, Potassium: 512mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 13g, Vitamin A: 3673IU, Vitamin C: 57mg, Calcium: 148mg, Iron: 2mg
Keywords spinach, strawberry

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I'm Maria and my husband is Josh. We share a love of cooking, baking, and entertaining. We enjoy creating recipes that are simple, fresh, and family friendly. We love sitting around the table with good food, good conversation, and good friends and family! Our kitchen is always open!
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  1. I wish you well on the bake sale and the tv appearance!! 🙂 I love fruit in salads (well, and fruit salads too…), balsamic vinegar would be a great addition to the dressing as well!

  2. Random comment here, but it occurred to me this a.m. as I was tweeting this link to this recipe, I tweet your recipes a lot… I follow a ton of blogs, but it’s like day after day your recipes are the ones that I think… “yeah, I’d make that.” So hats off to you and your blog. Love it!

  3. We’ve had that same kind of busy week around here too. Wish I could have helped with the bake sale. I hope it all goes well! Good luck with your TV spot and may you sale every last crumb at the bake sale! Here’s to hoping next week will be a little calmer!

  4. Your salad is beautiful, I love strawberries with feta….the sweet savory thing is my favorite. xo

  5. Very pretty salad, Maria! I like the light dressing. Good luck on your Studio 5 appearance. I’m sure you’ll be great!

  6. 2009 was the year of strawberries. They were juicy and sweet. Great for making the recipe. Hopefully this year it will be as wonderful as 2009. I can’t wait to try this recipe.

  7. I love strawberries and spinach together! GOOD LUCK with your cooking segment! Can’t wait to hear how it goes!

  8. Your salad has wonderful color, Maria. I love that you’ve used a lighter dressing for it. I love sweet and savory. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings…Mary

  9. those strawberries look sooooo yummy! i love all of your delish recipes!!! thanks for sharing! good luck at the BAKE SALE! whoop whoop! xoxo

  10. Good luck with the TV work AND the bake sale, Maria! Your strawberry salad looks gorgeous, I love combining sweet and savory during the warm months.

  11. My son is a big fan for strawberries. We had tried dessert and yogurt but straberry salad is a new discovery for me. A must-try recipe! Your salad looks amazing! I just can’t keep my eyes off them. Hope both your bake sale and TV show are great success!

  12. 99 cents for a pound?! That’s awesome!! I can’t wait for strawberry season to come to Boston. This salad looks spectacular – simple yet I’m sure flavorful. Good luck today and tomorrow. This is the exciting kind of busy. 🙂

    1. I was surprised to find out about feta and watermelon, too! But it’s great!

  13. This looks wonderful, and I have all of the ingredients on hand. I know what’s for lunch tomorrow! Have fun at the bake sale tomorrow!

    1. Thanks everyone for your kind words and support with the bake sale. I am excited for tomorrow! I Hope we raise lots of money for Share Our Strength!

  14. We ate at Applebee’s on Dixie Highway tonight because my husband is Retired Navy and first of all we appreciate what you all do for the Veterans. We do eat there on occasion anyways.
    My problem is I had the Spinach & berry w/grilled chicken salad and I can’t seem to locate the Nutrition Data on the dressing. Is is included in the calories of the Salad or can you give me the information ?
    Also, not on my Diet of course I get to blow it once in awhile but I had a Strawberry Daiquiri which was delicious. I need the Nutrition Data on it to. I keep a journal every day and if it goes in my mouth I write it down. I’ve been on this Diet since Feb. 12th, 2012 and have lost about 73 pounds by counting calories. Thats why this is so important to me. By the way I am 62 years old so it took me till this past Feb. to make up my mind to be healthy and get that weight off and keep it off.
    Thank You,
    Joanie Grant 502 298 3299

  15. This is very nice blog because information provided here through the article and the pictures are very effective. Because sometimes words cannot explain the things that pictures can and here the words and pictures both are expressing the things in balance.

  16. 5 stars
    The strawberry dressing ingredients list 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard.

    However, dressing instructions do not include dijon mustard.

    Is the mustard part of the dressing?

    Thank you.

  17. 5 stars
    Oh Yum!! This salad has all the flavour you could ask for. The only change I made was to simply toast the pecans as I’m trying to keep my sugars low. The dressing was SO tasty.

  18. This salad is fabulous! I am so thrilled to have the strawberry dressing as a new favorite. Thank you, Maria!

  19. 5 stars
    Your recipes are the best! I love your blog. The magnificent pictures, directions and tips. Thank you!

  20. 5 stars
    This spinach and strawberry salad salad is delicious. I made it for our family get together and
    we all wanted seconds! now I am having it for dinner almost every night.

    Thank you Maria!

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