Shelly's Super Salad

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings

Description

This is an easy salad to prepare and you can vary the ingredients depending upon what is freshest at the market. The dressing is fat-free Italian, and is tossed with the cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms, red onion, and eggs, along with the chopped lettuce and spinach.

Ingredients

1 head iceberg lettuce - rinsed, dried, and chopped
1 bunch fresh spinach - rinsed, dried and torn into bite-size pieces
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 red onion, diced
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
4 eggs
1 cucumber, cleaned and diced
2 cups fat free Italian-style dressing
1/4 cup melba toast, crumbled

Directions

1 Place eggs in a saucepan and cover completely with cold water. Bring water to a boil. Cover, remove from heat, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.
2 In a large salad bowl, combine the lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, red onion, mushrooms, eggs and cucumbers.
3 Pour enough salad dressing to coat; toss and serve with fat-free croutons or melba toast.