Green Goddess Salad

This week in class is all about slow cookers also known as crock pots! Slow cookers are great because you can prepare everything the night before or the morning of, plug it in, go to work, and come home to a delicious dinner! Slow cookers get their name because that is exactly what they do, cook your foods very slowly for a long period of time. You can cook most meals in a slow cooker with a little bit of tweaking. Check out THIS post to find out 7 tips to convert your recipes to slow cooker recipes. This is a great quick and easy salad to serve with your slow cooked meal!

Delicious looking salad!

Salad with dressing!

Close up of salad

What you'll need:

• Knife
• Cutting board
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons
• Food processor or blender
• Large serving bowl

Ingredients

For the salad

• 4 Cups spinach 
• 1 -2 Cups pea shoots
• 1/4 to 1/2 Cup feta cheese
• 1/4 to 1/2 Cup almonds, crushed or chopped
• 1 Avocado, cut into chunks 

For the Dressing

• 1/2 Jalapeño pepper (you can leave ribs and seeds if you prefer it spicy)
• 2/3 Cup Greek yogurt
• Juice from 1 lime
• 1/4 Cup olive oil
• 1/2 Teaspoon salt
• 1 Tablespoon maple
• 1/2 Teaspoon minced garlic
• 1/2 Cup packed cilantro

Directions

1. Puree all the dressing ingredients together, adding the cilantro last until you reach a texture/consistency you like.
2. Toss together all of the salad ingredients in a large serving bowl.
3. Either toss the dressing into the salad or serve the dressing on the side.

This week we only made one slow cooker recipe with a salad, then prepared a slow cooker recipe to be cooked the next day, and then one more slow cooker recipe as a take home challenge recipe. Curious about them? Click on any of them below and you can see their recipes!

• Honey and Chili Chicken Thighs
• Green Goddess Salad
• Chicken Tagine with Apricots, Almonds & Chickpeas
• Collard Greens Stew with Meat and Garlic 

Honey chili chicken with green goddess salad!

And as always if you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them below!