No Lettuce Italian Chopped Salad

Get outta right here, lettuce! There’s a brand new salad on the town, and it’s this No Lettuce Italian Chopped Salad. This scrumptious and hearty salad is loaded with your whole favourite Italian flavors with no single leaf of lettuce in sight.

We love serving this salad over a 1/2 cup of cottage cheese for an additional protein and taste enhance 😋.

A salad with cherry tomatoes, red onion, carrot shreds, bacon, cheese, and chickpeas, accompanied by two bread pieces. Dressing is in a small cup nearby.

Contemporary, tangy, salty, savory… this Italian chopped salad has bought all of it. Made with a mixture of crunchy greens, meaty salami and prosciutto, creamy mozzarella cheese, and zesty Italian dressing, its impressed by our favourite chopped salad on the town right here within the Twin Cities — Punch Pizza’s chopped Italian salad.

Three components make up this salad, and it’s tremendous straightforward to arrange:

Mixing the greens
Making the dressing
Cooking the prosciutto.

Convey all of it collectively on the finish, and omg it’s so dang good.

No arduous emotions, lettuce. We initially made this salad with greens, too, however we discovered that the opposite elements had been so flavorful and hearty that they didn’t want the additional greens. It reminded us of all the explanations we ❤️ our OG no lettuce salad recipe.

Salad preparation: cooked bacon in a skillet, dressing in a bowl, shredded vegetables being added to a salad, dressing poured over, and tossed salad with toppings in a white bowl.

In the event you can’t justify not having greens, be happy to toss in 4 oz. of spring combine or chopped romaine to the salad!

Make this recipe a pasta salad by tossing in 4 oz. of cooked pasta. You might wish to add a little bit further dressing when you go this route.

Don’t have garbanzo beans? Be happy to substitute any kind of bean for the garbanzo beans.

This salad is finest loved recent, however if in case you have leftovers, retailer them in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 2 days. We advocate storing the dressing individually and including it simply earlier than serving to forestall the salad from getting soggy.

A bowl of salad with sliced red onions, cherry tomatoes, chickpeas, shredded carrots, crumbled cheese, and cured meats. Two forks are placed in the bowl. A small bowl of dressing is beside it.

What To Serve With This Italian Chopped Salad

Go full Italian mode and luxuriate in this salad with a traditional pasta dish like this Entire Wheat Solar Dried Tomato Basil Pasta or Straightforward Hen Alfredo. You may also pair it with a comfortable soup! Our Olive Backyard Zuppa Toscana could be good.

Add the carrots, onion, garbanzo beans, tomatoes, pepperoncini, salami, and crumbled cheese to a bowl. Toss to mix. Put aside.
Put together the dressing. Add the elements for the dressing to a bowl and whisk to mix.
Warmth a big skillet over excessive warmth. Add the prosciutto to the pan and cook dinner it till it turns into brown and crispy. Take away from the warmth and let cool to turn out to be very crispy.
Add the dressing to the salad and toss to mix.
Serve the salad topped with crispy prosciutto.

If you wish to add greens, be happy to toss in 4 oz. of spring combine to the salad.
Make this recipe a pasta salad by tossing in 4 oz. of cooked pasta.
Be happy to substitute any kind of bean for the garbanzo beans.

Energy: 408 kcal, Carbohydrates: 29 g, Protein: 17 g, Fats: 25 g, Fiber: 7 g, Sugar: 9 g