Refreshing Summer Luncheon Salad
via Spinach Tomato Cottage Cheese
Loving simple seasonal salads!
I adore a great simple seasonal salad that I can whip up from the fridge, don’t you? This Spinach Tomato Cottage Cheese Pasta Salad is just what I am talking about! It’s prepared with fresh spinach and tangy cherry tomatoes. The cottage cheese substitutes for dressing and the prepared pasta adds a warm element without adding meat!
I was inspired to create this seasonal salad by the P&Geveryday website which features seasonal salad lunch suggestions. I found the P&Geveryday recipe section so valuable, as it highlights food that is in season at that time period followed by salad recipe creations. For example, summer is listed and these ingredients that are in season are suggested: summer squash, zucchini, cucumber, melon, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, corn, peppers, eggplant, peaches, plums, apricots and then a recipe is provided for raw zucchini salad. Check out this wonderful Harvest salad they have for fall containing baby kale, grapes, pomegranate seeds, apple, pumpkin seeds, feta cheese, your favorite dressing or extra virgin olive oil and apple cider vinegar! MMMM!
As we are basically starting summer in Michigan, my seasonal inspired salad includes several items from spring and summer and then I coupled it with items I had in my fridge.
- Fresh spinach (enough to cover bottom of each plate)
- ½ to ¾ of cup cottage cheese as desired
- 4 oz of stuffed hot/warm agnolotti or ravioli (cooked)
- 12-15 cherry tomatoes
- Parmesan cheese
- Spread fresh spinach over bottom of plate to form a bed
- Mound cottage cheese in center of lettuce bed
- Arrange cooked agnolotti or ravioli in a circular pattern around center mound of cottage cheese
- Place cherry tomato around arrangement in a pleasing manner with one in middle of cottage cheese mound.
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I haven’t quite seen a salad like this before but it looks delicious! And I am very much looking forward to trying this!
I’d probably substitute some type of lettuce because I don’t like raw spinach. But these sounds really tasty.
When I saw the name of the recipe I was like ‘huh??’ But the photo cleared it up, lol. I’d really like this.
always good to have some starchy food with salads
This sounds delicious and looks beautiful.
This looks soooo delicious, I’ll have to give the recipe a try!
THis looks amazing and healthy! Thank you for sharing your idea! I love spinach and fresh tomatoes.
This does sound really good. I was just talking with someone the other day, and she was using cottage cheese in her recipes. I need to get back to using it! So good for you, and yummy!
I love that today you can buy so many interesting premade foods today. These ravioli look homemade. And it used to be that the only greens you could get were lettuce and spinach.
Looks like a great light lunch recipe. Fairly healthy. And it would make for an elegant presentation. I’m always looking for new lunch recipes. Thanks to the internet my cooking is improving.
I always try to buy and eat seasonally. Fresher food and usually cheaper.
Looking good like to try this
This sounds so awesome..I love trying new salad combinations..Thanks for sharing 🙂