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This Sweet & Sour Salad has the perfect amount of tang and the perfect amount of sweet!

Sweet and Sour Salad

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

I originally shared this recipe in July of 2010.  It was one of the dishes I had served at my mom’s 80th birthday party. It was a nice addition to the salad buffet at the party. The dressing has a nice sweet and tangy flavor to it.

It is also an easy one to add chicken to and make into a main dish. A perfect lunch or dinner in the summer.

Sweet and Sour Salad

Ingredients

  • Lettuce
  • Spinach
  • Mushrooms
  • Sweet Onions
  • Avocado 
  • Bacon or Ham
  • Swiss Cheese
  • Grapes

Sweet and Sour Dressing Ingredients

  • Sugar
  • Dry Mustard
  • Salt
  • White Vinegar
  • Canola Oil
  • Poppy Seeds
Salad with lettuce, spinach, red onion, mushrooms, bacon, and grapes

How to Make Sweet and Sour Salad Dressing

  • Pour White Vinegar, Sugar, Dry Mustard, and Salt into a blender.
  • Blend on low while slowly pouring in oil.
  • Once well plended, add in poppy seeds and give a quick stir.
  • Add dressing to salad just before serving or store leftover dressing in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Tips

  • This recipe uses grapes, but it also works well with mandarin oranges and pineapple.
  • To make the salad a main dish salad, you can add cooked chicken or substitute the bacon for diced ham.
  • This is a great salad to make ahead. Wash and cut all fruit and vegetables and make the dressing ahead of time. The day of, combine ingredients in a salad bowl and slice the avocado.
Sweet and Sour Salad Dressing

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5 from 3 votes

Sweet and Sour Salad

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
All of the flavors in this salad create a nice balance with just the right amount of sweetness and tang thanks to the delicious sweet and sour salad dressing
serves: 6 servings
Prep:7 hours 55 minutes
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Total:7 hours 55 minutes

Ingredients

  • 12 oz Lettuce and spinach washed and torn into pieces
  • 1/2 c Mushrooms fresh and thinly sliced
  • 1/4 Sweet Onions purple, thinly sliced
  • 1 Avocado sliced in small pieces
  • 4 slices bacon or ham cooked and cut into small pieces
  • 1/2 c Swiss cheese grated
  • 1/2 grapes you can substitute mandarin oranges or pineapple

Sweet and Sour Dressing

  • 5/8 c sugar one heaping 1/2 cup/
  • 1 tsp dry mustard
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/3 C white vinegar
  • 1 C canola oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp poppy seeds

Instructions

  • Wash and tear spinach and lettuce into pieces and combine with diced mushrooms, diced avocados, crumbled bacon, sliced grapes, and grated cheese.

Sweet and Sour Salad Dressing

  • Blend all salad dressing ingredients, except poppy seeds together.
  • Then add poppy seeds and stir.
  • Add dressing to salad at the last minute and toss gently or store in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 582kcal (29%) Carbohydrates: 28g (9%) Protein: 6g (12%) Fat: 51g (78%) Saturated Fat: 7g (44%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 12g Monounsaturated Fat: 30g Trans Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 18mg (6%) Sodium: 512mg (22%) Potassium: 330mg (9%) Fiber: 3g (13%) Sugar: 23g (26%) Vitamin A: 414IU (8%) Vitamin C: 6mg (7%) Calcium: 102mg (10%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
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Course:Salad
Cuisine:American
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  4. Kirstie says

    Yummy looking salads. They will definitly go into my recipe box!
    Here is a yummy salad that I just had this past weekend…
    Summer Corn Salad

    3-4 ears of fresh corn boiled, then cut off put into bowl.
    Basket of cherry or grape tomatoes (1-2 c.), halved.
    Half of a red onion, dice and added.
    2-3 avacados, cubed and added.
    Bottle of Girards Greek dressing. Add until all ingredients are coated. Let sit in the fridge for a hour or 2 to marinate. Then serve!
    This was super easy and really tasty.
    Enjoy!

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  5. Emily says

    This looks yummy! Your Celestial Salad is my standard go to salad. Kelly Johnson’s Bow Tie Salad is another good choice, but a salad from Cafe Rio is my favorite!

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