Here is the recipe for the Spinach Salad with Orange Sesame Dressing prepared by the seniors in the Cooking Club for Seniors in South Arm Community Center. This salad is a nice change from lettuce and tomato and much less expensive. In spring, one can get a bunch of spinach for fifty cents.
Spinach and oranges are both rich in fibre and folate, as well as vitamins A and C. Spinach is a rich source of iron and that’s why the Chinese use spinach for treatment of anemia.
Spinach is undoubtedly one of the best nutritional valued healthy vegetable as the creator of Popeye the sailor man cartoon used spinach as a source of strength.
This salad is very refreshing with the citrus dressing. The toasted sesame seeds and slivered almonds add crunchiness and nuttiness to the salad.
Ingredients
Salad ingredients:
- 2 cups (500ml) chopped fresh spinach
- 1 orange
- 1 tablespoon chopped red or green onion
- 1 tablespoon raisins
- 1 tablespoon toasted slivered almond
Dressing ingredients:
- 1 1/2 teaspoon (7ml) olive oil or canola oil
- 1/2 teaspoon (2ml) sesame oil (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon (1ml) honey or sugar
- 1 pinch powdered ginger
- 1 pinch pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon (2ml) orange rind
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) orange juice
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds, toasted
Instructions
Hi Suanne, I used to think that spinach was rich in iron until I saw this…
“The iron content of spinach is actually one-tenth of what was reported. The scientists put the decimal point in the wrong place! The mistake was corrected in 1937.”
http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment.php4?seg=238
Just thought you might want to know! Nice refreshing salad by the way! 🙂
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