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    Bless This Mess > Recipes > Sides Dishes and Salads > Salads

    Rainbow Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing

    Published: Jul 26, 2016 · Modified: Feb 26, 2020 by Melissa · 1 Comment

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    a bowl of ingredients for a rainbow salad with eggs and mushrooms

    I'm here today with Rainbow Salad and Honey Mustard Dressing - a gorgeous, colorful, healthy salad recipe to get you out of your salad rut and to get you excited for dinner (or lunch)!

    With rainbow salad, you get a whole host of veggies with protein for a well rounded, easy lunch or dinner. Serve it with honey mustard vinaigrette!

    Healthy Rainbow Salad Recipe With Honey Mustard Dressing

    Thai Chopped Salad with the Best Peanut Dressing, Easy Apple Spinach Salad with an Apple Vinaigrette and The BEST Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad are a few you need to put on your meal plan ASAP!

     

    I feel like salads are like smoothies. You can make a million and one different combinations, but it's so easy to get into a rut and make the same one over and over again.

    Rainbow Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette from above

    I was going for a whole rainbow of colors, and it turned out just perfect. There's a phrase that bounces around the internet that goes something like "eat the rainbow," and I've always really liked it. I think if you get a good variety of color in your diet in the form of whole foods, you are going to be pretty healthy and well rounded. When you eat lots of colors, that generally means you'll have room for a little dessert too (I recommend the best chocolate chip cookies ever). Eating the rainbow and cookies is what I considered a well balanced real-life approach to food.

     

    Rainbow Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

    How Long Does Homemade Salad Dressing Last?

    When refrigerated, vinaigrette type dressings can last  for up to 2 weeks.

    Can I Prep this Salad Ahead of Time?

    The bulk of this rainbow salad can be prepped ahead of time and then when you are ready to eat it, you'll have minimal things to do. You can wash, shred, and store your romaine lettuce in a large mason jar (lasts forever like this), prep the bulk of the veggies (I have a bunch of them in our veggie box washed and ready for chopping), make the chicken, and shake up the dressing. Then when you are all ready for an easy healthy lunch or dinner, you just have to bring all the components together into one grand Rainbow Salad.

    What Other Salad Dressings Can Be Used for this Salad?

    You can serve this with the honey mustard vinaigrette recipe I have included or it would also be great with ranch, blue cheese, or even a classic vinaigrette.

    Rainbow Salad - Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

     

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    Simple Rainbow Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing


    • Author: Melissa Griffiths - Bless this Mess
    • Total Time: 15 minutes
    • Yield: serves 4-6 1x
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    I'm here today with Rainbow Salad and Honey Mustard Dressing - a gorgeous, colorful, healthy salad recipe to get you out of your salad rut and to get you excited for dinner (or lunch!)


    Ingredients

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    • 2 cups shredded romaine hearts
    • 2 cups roughly chopped spinach leaves
    • ½ cup chopped ham
    • ½ cup halved grape tomatoes
    • ½ cup chopped orange bell pepper
    • 3 boiled eggs, sliced
    • ½ cup chopped mushrooms
    • ½ cup chopped chicken
    • ½ cup shredded purple cabbage
    • One recipe honey mustard dressing (follows)

    Instructions

    1. Toss romaine and spinach together and then add them to a salad bowl. Add the other ingredients (I like to put them in lines because they are pretty, but you don't have to).
    2. To make the Honey Mustard dressing: Whisk 2 tablespoons each of honey, Dijon mustard, and white vinegar and ½ teaspoon kosher salt and pepper to taste. Gradually whisk in ¼ cup olive oil. So easy, super classic, I love honey mustard dressing on all the things.
    3. Toss the salad before serving with the dressing on the side.

    Notes

    Rotisserie chicken or chicken you have prepped ahead of time (my favorite ways to cook chicken breast are here) are great options for the chicken in this salad.

    • Prep Time: 15 mins
    • Category: Lunch
    • Cuisine: American

    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: 4-6
    • Calories: 196
    • Sugar: 2.5g
    • Sodium: 153.5mg
    • Fat: 7.3g
    • Carbohydrates: 6.8g
    • Protein: 26.3g
    • Cholesterol: 196.7mg

    Keywords: rainbow salad recipe, how to make rainbow salad, honey mustard vinaigrette recipe, healthy salad recipe, easy salad recipe

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    Enjoy this Rainbow Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing gorgeous, colorful, healthy salad recipe to get you out of your salad.

     

     

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    1. Becky H

      July 31, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      Ooo, this looks like heaven!!!

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