A Spoon for Your Salad?

You know you got a good salad when you have to eat it with a spoon...

The selection of ingredients in this salad below is the result of trying to use up all my left-over produce from the top of this week's grocery shopping run (I do not tolerate food-wasting).
Nevertheless, the finished product was still superb!

 The Left-Over Produce Sesame Spinach Salad

ingredients:
baby spinach
broccoli florets
tomatoes
sliced mushrooms
thinly sliced red onion
fried minced garlic
shredded mozzarella cheese
Asian sesame dressing

Don't be discouraged by the simplicity or 'boring' (if you will) facade of this recipe.
I must confess that the salad was a little bland before I added the shredded mozzarella and fried minced garlic components to it. The cheese I luckily had as left-overs from my pizza-making dinner party with Amber on Halloween. And the garlic- well, the garlic factor is because I am Filipino and that's what we do. We add garlic to everything.

Before combining ingredients into a bowl, mince the garlic and deep fry in a pan on medium to low heat. The key here is patience. You want the garlic to fry crispy, not stale and hard.
Fry until golden brown.
Combine and toss spinach, mushrooms, red onion, broccoli, tomatoes, and sesame dressing in a bowl.

Top with fried minced garlic and shredded mozzarella.

There.

A guilt-free (and cost-free) meal.

Eat well.

Miss Sabado