Composed Chopped Salad
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A composed chopped salad makes a wonderful salad to introduce to young children. All ingredients are already well-chopped, the composition of the salad provides different textures, shapes and colors, and they are able to sample ingredients to find the tastes they prefer the most. The best part is you can easily include your family’s favorite ingredients. How fun is that?
A composed chopped salad makes a wonderful salad to introduce to young children. All ingredients are already well-chopped, the composition of the salad provides different textures, shapes and colors, and they are able to sample ingredients to find the tastes they prefer the most. The best part is you can easily include your family’s favorite ingredients. How fun is that?
This salad by the very nature can easily be made as a gluten-free or dairy free salad. Simply omit ingredients that may cause a food sensitivity to any guests and switch out with other ingredients as you like. Serve dressing options on the side and allow your guests to add as they wish.
Here’s how I make my Composed Chopped Salad.
Composed Chopped Salad
Ingredients
- 4 cups lettuce
- 1 cup cooked ham
- 1 cup cooked turkey
- 8 pieces cooked bacon
- 2 green onions
- 4 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 avocado
- 1 cucumber
- 1 cup grape tomatoes
- 1/2 cup cheese, blue or feta
Instructions
- Chop all ingredients.
- Compose ingredients beginning at one end of your platter by placing a single ingredient in a line, followed by another ingredient, repeat until salad has been composed as you wish.
- Top with cheese in the center of the salad or provide on the side of the salad if gluten or dairy allergies are of concern.
- Serve with dressing option on the side. Favorite dressings for our chopped salads are a simple oil and vinegar, vinaigrette, honey mustard, and ranch or blue-cheese.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Yum! The salad looks delish Robyn! I bet my hubby and middle son would love it!
~Liz
Gorgeous salad! I love that there are so many ingredients!
My family loves meals like this – and I love the prep and presentation. Beautiful!
That is so beautiful! I am so excited that you are part of our online holiday progressive party for Share our Strength! xoxo
Easy peasy. That’s what I like about this salad! And it lends itself to so many variations. Thanks for sharing it. I’m delighted to be a part of this event – such a worthwhile cause.
This looks so great, my kind of salad!! Your pictures are beautiful!! 🙂
chopped salads like this one are great even for adults!! reminds me of a Cobb Salad which was one of my dad’s favorites!
Such a beautiful presentation!!! Great job and recipe!
What a beautiful salad, Robyn. I completely agree that this is probably a much better way to introduce salad to kids. Great photos too.
Great idea to present salad in a fun way- w/ the hope that kids will be more interested in eating it. I’ll try this!