Southwest Steak Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

This week I will be sharing a salad recipe each evening. I don’t want you to think I have reformed and am going to get all healthy on you; this week of salads is one of necessity. All of my lettuce is getting ready to go to seed, as is my Swiss chard, so I am trying to use it all up before it goes bad. Which would you prefer, a salad recipe each night or a horrid food waste picture on Friday? That’s what I thought!

Southwest Steak Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

20 mins

 

Author: Alea

Recipe type: Salad

Serves: 6

Ingredients

Salad Ingredients:

• ¾ – 1 pound steak, thinly sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped (I used ½ red and ½ yellow pepper)
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 jalapeño pepper, seeds removed and chopped
• 12 cups mixed lettuces, torn
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes
• 1 carrot, julienned
• 3 – 4 stalks of celery, chopped
• 5 –6 radishes, sliced
• cheese (optional)

Honey Lime Dressing Ingredients:

• ½ teaspoon mustard powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon onion, minced
• juice of 2 limes ~ ¼ cup**
• 2 tablespoons honey
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro, no stems
• ½ cup extra light olive oil
• dash pepper

Directions

1. Salad Directions:
2. Brown steak with pepper, garlic, and onions until meat is cook through and onions are translucent.
3. Remove the steak mixture from heat and set aside while you make Honey Lime Dressing and prepare the vegetables (directions below).
4. Mix greens with steak mixture.
5. Sprinkle cheese on top if you wish and then coat with the dressing.
6. Dressing Directions:
7. Place all the ingredients except for the oil in a food processor to combine. Slowly add in oil and process until creamy.
8. Drizzle over salad.

Notes

**To get twice as much juice from your lemons and limes microwave them for about 10 seconds before you juice them.

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More Salad Recipes:

Asparagus and Pasta Salad
Quinoa and Avocado Salad

I have had fun experimenting with salad dressings. Do you like to make your own or do your prefer to stick to bottled?

This post has been linked to Hearth and Soul Hop and Kitchen Tip Tuesday.