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Olive Garden Style Garden Salad
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Olive Garden Style Garden Salad

Olive Garden Style Garden Salad is an easy and refreshingly crisp salad made with greens, salad vegetables, croutons, dressing and parmesan cheese.
Prep Time10 minutes
Total Time10 minutes
Course: Salad
Cuisine: Italian
Servings: 2 -4
Author: Sonal Gupta @ simplyvegetarian777

Ingredients

  • Romaine Lettuce - 1 head cleaned+washed+base removed. Chopped roughly.
  • Black Olives - 2 to 3 tbsp sliced or 10 to 12 whole & pitted. You may use Green Olives if you like.
  • Cucumbers - 1/2 cup or 1 medium sliced medium thickness or chopped into medium pieces
  • Cherry Tomatoes - 12-15 or as less or much you like. You may use 1 large tomato chopped instead.
  • Red Onions - 1/4 cup sliced thin or few thinly sliced rings of onion. Again you may use as much or as less, to your liking.
  • Croutons - handful or 1/2 cup. Use ceasar croutons or any other either store bought or home made.
  • pepperoncini pepper - 3 to 4 optional. These are pickled and peppery small yellow colored peppers relished much with Italian salad, pizza and sandwiches.

Condiments & Dressing

  • Parmesan Cheese - 1/4 to 1/2 cup grated as per your liking.
  • Olive Garden Italian Creamy Dressing - 1/4 to 1/3 cup as desired. You may make it at home, as per the recipe link given above by copykat or buy from the market. You may use regular or light version.

Instructions

  • Take a large bowl and literally dump all the main ingredients together. Toss well.
  • Add parmesan cheese and Olive Garden Italian Dressing. Toss once more with tongs.
  • You may refrigerate the salad for 20-30 minutes for flavors to marinate well or serve immediately.
  • Whichever way, you have an amazing salad to savor upon. Simple and Easy.

NOTE

  • If you made the dressing at home, refrigerate the leftover.