This is the best green salad recipe. It has crumbled pecorino, rich panko, soft butter lettuce, and a bright jolt of red spring onions.
It's the perfect green salad because it’s lush, easy to make, and has a delicious mustardy dressing. You’ll love this green salad recipe!
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This is my favorite green salad recipe - and here's why I think it's the best. The mild butter lettuce combined with the kicky dressing pairs well with many dishes - it’s a perfect side salad for roast chicken or pasta.
So many green salads are easily forgotten—spending a bit of extra time to pull this one together is truly worth it. It’s a standout salad and an excellent side dish that will be remembered. It combines soft lettuce, crunchy panko, a zesty dressing, and mellow cheese into something truly special.
Green Salad Recipe Ingredients
To make this butter salad recipe, you’ll need: butter lettuce, red spring onions (or red onion), panko breadcrumbs, and Pecorino Romano cheese.
For the dressing, you’ll need: olive oil, red wine vinegar, whole grain mustard, sea salt and pepper, and sugar.
How to Make this Butter Lettuce Salad
To make this green salad, you’ll need to:
- Combine the salad ingredients. Add the butter lettuce, spring onions, breadcrumbs, and Pecorino to a large bowl.
- Make the dressing. Combine the olive oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper, and sugar in a small bowl and whisk vigorously to combine.
- Dress the salad. Right before serving, add the dressing to the salad and toss to combine. Serve immediately.
Tips for the Making this Salad
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- For this recipe, I used a few products I purchased online (you can get them at a grocery store as well), like this Mantova Red Wine Vinegar, Maldon Sea Salt, and Maille Old Style Whole Grain Mustard.
- For this salad, I found red spring onions at the store, but you can easily make it with regular red onions. It will still have a great kick!
I hope you enjoy this delicious green salad recipe!
The Best Green Salad Recipe
This is the best green salad recipe - it's got crumbled pecorino, rich panko, soft butter lettuce, a bright jolt of red spring onions.
Ingredients
- 4.5 ounces butter lettuce
- ½ cup red spring onions (or red onion), finely sliced
- 1 cup Panko breadcrumbs
- 4 ounces crumbled Pecorino Romano
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon whole grain mustard
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Instructions
- Add the butter lettuce, spring onions, breadcrumbs, and Pecorino to a large bowl.
- Combine the olive oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper, and sugar in a small bowl and whisk vigorously to combine.
- Right before serving, add the dressing to the salad and toss to combine. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 393Total Fat: 27gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 18gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 1180mgCarbohydrates: 24gFiber: 2gSugar: 4gProtein: 13g
Jayme says
Delicious! Used gluten free Panko and lactose free butter and it was great!
KAREN says
WHAT WAS THE BUTTER FOR? i DON'T SEE THAT IN THE RECIPE
Cheryl says
@KAREN, the lettuce is a type called “butter lettuce”. You could use any tender greens. Bibb or baby lettuces, maybe, if you can’t find butter lettuce where you live.
Albertina says
Your favorite green salad is now my favorite salad. I really can’t see anyone who would say no to this salad everyone loved it.
Emily says
How wonderful to hear! So glad you like it 🙂
Sydney says
Do you toast the panko breadcrumbs?
Emily says
You can toast them but you don't have to!
Barbara says
For being a very simple salad it was pretty great. The panko crumbs actually added quite a bit for texture and didn't get soggy with the dressing like croutons tend to. It was perfect with my dinner of peppercorn crusted steaks, asparagus casserole and crusty bread. I will definitely add this into my salad rotation!
Emily says
So glad you liked it!
Germaine says
Very different salad and delicious.
Next time I’ll cut back on the cheese and salt in dressing. It tasted salty. Cheese can always be added.
Thank you for sharing
Alyson Smith says
This was seriously the most perfect salad! Simply Delicious! Instead of pecorino, I used trade joes parmesan cheddar and it was amazing. thank you!
EW says
So glad you liked it!!
Kira Clarke says
This salad is so delicious! I have been making it for a couple years now thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
EW says
So glad you like it! I remake this one a bunch too 🙂