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Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad)

Name: Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1 head romaine lettuce; 2 tomato; 1/2 red onion; 1/4 cup black olives; 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp sherry vinegar; 1/2 tsp salt

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Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Diabetic friendly Low carb High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 head romaine lettuce
2 tomato
1/2 red onion
1/4 cup black olives
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp sherry vinegar
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Wash and tear the lettuce into a large salad bowl.
Cut the tomatoes into wedges and add them to the bowl.
Thinly slice the onion and scatter it over the top, along with the olives.
Drizzle with the olive oil and the sherry vinegar and season with the salt.
Toss gently and serve right away, the default everyday salad on a Spanish table.

Watch how to cook Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
Something to sip
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 130 kcal
Protein: 2 g
Carbs: 8 g
Fat: 10 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 320 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Ensalada Mixta (Spanish Mixed Salad) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.