Get outta right here, lettuce! There’s a brand new salad on the town, and it’s this No Lettuce Italian Chopped Salad. This scrumptious and hearty salad is loaded with all your favourite Italian flavors with no single leaf of lettuce in sight.
We love serving this salad over a 1/2 cup of cottage cheese for an additional protein and taste enhance 😋.
Contemporary, tangy, salty, savory… this Italian chopped salad has obtained all of it. Made with a mixture of crunchy greens, meaty salami and prosciutto, creamy mozzarella cheese, and zesty Italian dressing, its impressed by our favourite chopped salad on the town right here within the Twin Cities — Punch Pizza’s chopped Italian salad.
Three parts make up this salad, and it’s tremendous simple to organize:
- Mixing the greens
- Making the dressing
- Cooking the prosciutto.
Deliver all of it collectively on the finish, and omg it’s so dang good.
No laborious emotions, lettuce. We initially made this salad with greens, too, however we discovered that the opposite components have been so flavorful and hearty that they didn’t want the additional greens. It reminded us of all the explanations we ❤️ our OG no lettuce salad recipe.
For those who can’t justify not having greens, be happy to toss in 4 oz. of spring combine or chopped romaine to the salad!
Make this recipe a pasta salad by tossing in 4 oz. of cooked pasta. You might wish to add a bit additional dressing if you happen to go this route.
Don’t have garbanzo beans? Be at liberty to substitute any kind of bean for the garbanzo beans.
This salad is finest loved recent, however if in case you have leftovers, retailer them in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 2 days. We suggest storing the dressing individually and including it simply earlier than serving to forestall the salad from getting soggy.
What To Serve With This Italian Chopped Salad
Go full Italian mode and luxuriate in this salad with a basic pasta dish like this Entire Wheat Solar Dried Tomato Basil Pasta or Simple Rooster Alfredo. It’s also possible to pair it with a comfy soup! Our Olive Backyard Zuppa Toscana can be good.
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Add the carrots, onion, garbanzo beans, tomatoes, pepperoncini, salami, and crumbled cheese to a bowl. Toss to mix. Put aside.
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Put together the dressing. Add the components for the dressing to a bowl and whisk to mix.
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Warmth a big skillet over excessive warmth. Add the prosciutto to the pan and cook dinner it till it turns into brown and crispy. Take away from the warmth and let cool to grow to be very crispy.
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Add the dressing to the salad and toss to mix.
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Serve the salad topped with crispy prosciutto.
- If you wish to add greens, be happy to toss in 4 oz. of spring combine to the salad.
- Make this recipe a pasta salad by tossing in 4 oz. of cooked pasta.
- Be at liberty to substitute any kind of bean for the garbanzo beans.
Energy: 408 kcal, Carbohydrates: 29 g, Protein: 17 g, Fats: 25 g, Fiber: 7 g, Sugar: 9 g
Diet data is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.
Pictures: photographs taken on this publish are by Erin from The Picket Skillet.