Basil Spinach Salad With Lime Vinaigrette

Basil Spinach Salad With Lime Vinaigrette

Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 7 -8 ounces of fresh baby spinach
• 1 cup loosely packed chiffonade fresh basil
• 1 medium avocado
• 6 medium fresh shiitake mushrooms
• 1 medium plum tomato
• 1/3 cup feta cheese
• 2 eggs
• fresh ground black pepper

Directions

• 1 Hard boil eggs, peel and set aside.
• 2 Wash spinach, removing tough ends, and tear into bite size pieces and place in large salad bowl.
• 3 Add chiffonade of basil to spinach.
• 4 Wash the mushrooms and slice thin, add to salad bowl.
• 5 Wash tomato, dice; adding to salad bowl.
• 6 Peel, pit and slice avocado, lengthwise, place in salad bowl along with feta cheese.
• 7 Remove about 1 teaspoon of lime zest, cut lime in half and juice.
• 8 In a blender jar, combine the lime zest and juice with remaining ingredients for the vinaigrette, pulse until thoroughly blended, pour over salad ingredients tossing to coat.
• 9 Divide salad mixture into 4 equal portions and place on chilled salad plates.
• 10 Thinly slice egg and garnish each salad with egg slices.
• 11 Add a few grinds of fresh black pepper and serve.