Easter Spring Salads

Spring Salads are a great dessert for Easter. It comes out as a colorful meal that gives the dinner table a certain look to it. Yes. A well-made Easter Spring Salad is one way to show your culinary skills to the rest of the family at an Easter gathering.  Here we reveal some of the best Easter Spring Salad recipes available. Most of them are quite easy to prepare and you basically need to learn just one.  Variations on the theme of almost any salad will work.

Creative Easter Spring Salads for Healthy Celebrating

The Tropical Spinach Salad with Grilled Chicken, and Tropical Spinach Salad with Grilled Steak are basically the same ingredients, the only difference being the grilled chicken or beef as the case may be. You may add grilled shrimp, turkey, or duck for a special salad recipe. Again, the strawberry-chicken salad and Raspberry Vinaigrette have the same base ingredients - they taste different through.

The essence of having a Spring Salad as part of festivities for Easter has grown to become a tradition in the US and some parts of Europe since the 20th century when salads dishes became more popular.

• Strawberry-Chicken Salad
• Raspberry Vinaigrette
• Shrimp-and-Artichoke Salad
• Honey Chicken Salad
• Tropical Spinach Salad With Grilled Shrimp
• Citrus Marinade
• Fresh Basil Vinaigrette
• Tropical Spinach Salad With Grilled Chicken
• Tropical Spinach Salad With Grilled Pork Tenderloin

Now let's get to the core ingredients of a basic Easter spring salad.

Easter Spring Salad Recipe

• 3 cups washed baby spinach leaves
• 3 cups washed and torn salad greens
• 1 cup sliced strawberries
• 1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup sliced almonds
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon poppy seeds
• Salt
• Pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

These core ingredients are key to unlocking any spring salad. Depending on your gustatory preferences and of course that of those at the dinner table, select a particular type of Easter salad and go for it.

- The real secret however to a tasty Easter Spring Salad does not lie solely in its ingredients but in their freshness and how they are handled as you make the salad.
- The ingredients must be fresh and well-prepared.
- Salad greens should be very fresh, slightly cold and crisp while fruits, and almonds are best at room temperature.
- The salad is best prepared the night before or in the morning.
- If you'd need to have it stored for a while before dinner put it in a refrigerator and make sure the settings are right.
- You want to preserve the salad as well as maintain the crunchiness of the greens.

Impressing those at the table with a colorful spring salad is not nearly enough. Do you have an exquisite collection of teacups and silverware? Now is the time to put them to use. Also be sure to serve a salad in attractive dishes and it's sure they taste better. Dressings and croutons are best served in little side dishes.