Southwest Chopped Salad

When it’s hot outside, the last thing you want to do is cook, right? I will typically opt for salad on hot days. I mean, they’re good just about any day, but on hot days, they’re even better! Salads are quick, easy, and don’t necessarily require any cooking. For this salad, we started with a bag of Taylor Farms Southwest Chopped Salad. The salad itself is good on its own with a mix of romaine lettuce, green cabbage, carrots, green onion, and a mix of tortilla strips and pumpkin seeds and the creamy cilantro dressing is a nice add.

Since we like to embellish around here, we added more green onion, hard boiled eggs, small potatoes, tomatoes, mushrooms, and avocado. We took this from side salad to full meal status and it was sooooo good! You might be wondering why I’m writing about making salads that don’t require cooking when we clearly added eggs and potatoes and they both require cooking. Good for you, if you caught that! We always keep hard boiled eggs in the house, so they were already chilled in the fridge and the potatoes were leftover. They were just boiled and chilled so we could use them in other dishes, as needed. So, no cooking actually happened for this dish (at least not at the time we put it together). Go ahead and say it, we’re cheaters! Haha!!

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Southwest Chopped Salad

Punch up this great Southwest salad with some additional ingredients to make it a full meal.

Prep Time 20 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 3

Author Vegetariant

Ingredients

• 10 oz bag Taylor Farms Southwest Chopped Salad with dressing
• 1 tomato chopped
• 1 avocado chopped
• 5 mushrooms chopped
• 5 small boiled potatoes chopped
• 2 hard boiled eggs sliced or chopped

Instructions

1. Pour Taylor Farms Southwest Chopped Salad into a large bowl. Set dressing and tortilla strips and pumpkin seed mix aside.
2. Chop all the veggies listed above and toss into salad.
3. Add Creamy Cilantro Dressing and toss salad to lightly coat.
4. Slice or chop eggs and top salad.
5. Sprinkle with tortilla strips and pumpkin seed mix and serve.

Recipe Notes

Small potatoes and eggs were hard boiled and chilled prior to adding to this salad.

Adapted from Taylor Farms Southwest Chopped Salad

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Enjoy!