Apple Spinach Salad Recipe

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Apple, onion and bacon flavor this crunchy salad from Roberta Ashcraft of Twin Falls, Idaho. "After eating a similar salad at a restaurant, I concocted my own version," Roberta relates. "The dressing gets its zip from chili powder and hot pepper sauce."

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Apple Spinach Salad Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 15 min.

Yield: 2 Servings

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Ingredients

2 cups fresh spinach, torn
1 medium apple, chopped
2 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
2 red onion slices, separated into rings
2 tablespoons chopped nuts
DRESSING:
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Dash hot pepper sauce

Directions

In a salad bowl, toss the spinach, apple, bacon, onion and nuts. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the dressing ingredients; shake well. Drizzle over salad; toss to coat. Refrigerate any remaining dressing. Yield: 2 servings.

Nutritional Analysis: 1-1/2 cups of dressed salad equals 268 calories, 15 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 144 mg sodium, 33 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 5 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2-1/2 fat, 2 vegetable, 1-1/2 fruit.

Originally published as Apple Spinach Salad in Taste of Home April/May 2005, p56