Southwest salad has become one of the most favorite and pinned recipes in all the dinners as a dessert. That is not only delicious but also quick and easy to make. Its creamy texture, filling, and taste are increasing its craving every day.
Moreover, there is a lot of diversity and flexibility in making it because additions of ingredients in the salad could be variated according to your taste and budget and the same principle applies to the dressing as well. Let’s try this budget-friendly and delicious recipe for our home cooks.
Ingredients of southwest salad recipe
For the preparation of 6 servings of the most delicious homemade spicy southwest salad, we use some of the following ingredients:
- To make dressing items being used are:
- Sour cream
- Lemon juice
- Honey
- Cumin
- Chili powder
- Onion powder
- Salt and pepper
To make salad things being used are:
- Spring green mix
- Black beans
- Sliced red onion
- Avocados
- Corn kernels
- Tomatoes
- Cotija
- Tortilla strips
- Fresh cilantro
Steps of Preparation of southwest salad recipe
Here stepwise guidelines are mentioned to prepare your favorite southwest salad:
- before starting with the preparation of dressing. Gather all the ingredients and measure them according to instructions.
- To make dressing take a mixing bowl and add all the ingredients being used for dressing in it.
- Mix them well until all of them are mixed well and have become a smooth and fluffy mixture of it.
- As one step has done move to the next one to prepare the salad.
- To make salad use a large-sized bowl and add the ingredients of salad as black beans, red onion, avocado, corn kernels, tortilla strips, cilantro, and tomatoes.
- After that mix all of these well and make sure all of these should be bite-sized and if some of them need slicing do them properly.
- When all items get mixed in each pour dressing on it.
- after that chill for 2 to 3 hours after its preparation to make a consistent texture of dressing and salad.
Tips and substitutions for southwest salad recipe
- before starting Use yellow onion because it is most suitable instead of red one give some extra delicious.
- As garlic cloves are not mentioned but their use could add more taste.
- To make it a full meal some chicken breasts could also be used.
- If you couldn’t get avocado as it is also expensive guacamole with lime and water could be used.
- After that finds thicker texture addition of yogurt is also a good idea.
- While mixing ingredients be conscious to use a large-sized bowl as until items are not well-mixed variety in flavor and appearance wouldn’t be fine.
Serving
To serve it add salad at the bottom of your serving dish. After that dressing make the layers of salad and dressing. At the top add some extra dressing. On its side put some cilantro leaves as well.
Nutritional content in southwest salad
No doubt it is one of the healthy meals and full of all health benefits and nutritional contents. Each of its servings will be full of 336 calories, 5.5g of sugar, 21.2g of fat, 8.3g of saturated fat, 27g of carbohydrates, 9g of fiber, and 30mg of cholesterol as well.
How to store your salad?
As you have prepared your southwest salad and want to use it again and again with no effort, then the solution of it is also available. Once you make it prepared it could be stored for a week by keeping it in the fridge. But to store in its original form store in an air-tight container. One more caution that should be kept under consideration is that store your salad without dressing and make its addition at the time of serving. The addition of dressing with make it soggy in an airtight container.
