Mom's Special Salad
Mom's Special Salad

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mom's special salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Remove from the heat; cool to room temperature. For salad, place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water. Drain and cool to room temperature.

Mom's Special Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mom's Special Salad is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mom's special salad using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mom's Special Salad:
  1. Prepare 1 (5 oz) bag spimach
  2. Make ready 1/2 lbs chicken breast
  3. Get 12 large carrots
  4. Take 1 cup Israeli couscous
  5. Take 1/2 cup roasted pine nuts
  6. Get Salt
  7. Prepare Freshly ground pepper
  8. Take Dried dill
  9. Get 1/3 cup olive oil
  10. Take 3 tbsp white balsamic
  11. Prepare 2 tsp chopped garlic
  12. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  13. Prepare 1/2 tsp black pepper

If you have vegetarians, go ahead and serve their salad. Add the sausage to your meat-eaters' salads. Mother's Day is a special chance to celebrate mom and give gratitude for all she's done. My Mom has made this for years, I love the dressing, this is the only recipe I use for potato salad.

Instructions to make Mom's Special Salad:
  1. Preheat oven to 425
  2. Peel carrots, thinly slice on a diagonal. Place on parchment covered cookie sheet. Drizzle lightly with olive oil, sprinkle with dill, salt, and pepper. Roast in oven untill cooked and the edges of the carrots are slightly brown (25-30 mins). Let carrots cool before adding to salad.
  3. Cook chicken breast and shred by hand into bite sized pieces
  4. Toast pine nuts and cook Israeli couscous as per package instructions. Rinse couscous and coat with olive oil.
  5. Toss to combine chicken, nuts, spinach, couscous, and dressing. Sprinkle with salt to taste.

Eventually, extended family members would get a taste of the salad at a family party, and suddenly my mom become "the salad lady". Everyone loved her unique Italian salad dressing, and to this day, if there's a holiday or family function, my mom is always asked to bring the salad. My mom's potato salad is better than your mom's potato salad. There, I said it and I'm not taking it back! wink Seriously though, my mother has magical abilities in the art of potato salad making. My mom makes traditional mustard, pickle, and hard-boiled egg potato salad.

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