I wanted to do something with the strawberries besides eat them plain. I recently received some delicious sweet and salty cashews from Oh! Nuts, and I knew they’d be great in a salad with my berries.I decided to go with watercress as the base for the salad. I really like watercress, but I don’t use it often enough. I tossed the watercress in a very simple dressing of minced shallot, lemon, honey and olive oil. I added lots of strawberries, the cashews and some shaved ricotta salata.
This is a great summer salad, and very easy to put together. Strawberry season has just started, and I’ll be getting berries from the yard for a few more months. I need to come up with some other ways to use them, any ideas?
Strawberry, watercress and cashew saladServes 3-4
Whisk together the shallot, lemon juice, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper. Add to the watercress and toss to coat. Top with strawberries, cashews and ricotta salata.
2 bunches of watercress, trimmed
1 cup of strawberries, halved or quartered
1/4 cup sweet and salty cashews
1/4 cup ricotta salata, shaved
1 small shallot, minced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 heaping teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Whisk together the shallot, lemon juice, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper. Add to the watercress and toss to coat. Top with strawberries, cashews and ricotta salata.
64 comments:
This sounds delicious. And you grow strawberries in the backyard? Good for you!
From the yard? Lucky you. The salad looks amazing!
How nice to get the strawberries from your backyard - and they are gorgeous! The salad sounds lovely!
The first picture of the strawberry in the backyard looks so beautiful!
I would love to plant strawberries, too bad the weather in Jakarta is too hot and humid.
I love strawberries in a salad. That's a perfect way to use them!
What a delightful salad! You are lucky to grow strawberries ;-P...
Cheers,
Rosa
Wow really beautiful and delicious salade.
Oh to have strawberries in the yard!! This salad loooks fantastic, love the combo you chose.. and the dressing sounds perfect also.
My kinds salad!
Absolutley delicious looking! Watercress is one of my favorites, unfortunately it has a very short shelf life so very few of our grocers carry it!
Those are from your yard?? You're so lucky! The salad looks colorful and delicious!
Beautiful salad, too beautiful to eat! I love watercress; what a delightful combo with the sweet strawberries.
I'm so jealous that you have strawberries in your back yard!! I bet they were delicious :)
Just lovely, this looks so good!
so many strawberries in your yard! & what a colorful, flavorful way to use them.
Oh my, what a beautiful summer salad. Our local berries are a couple weeks away. Can't wait.
Strawberry sour cream ice cream! :)
Perfect salad Sara can't wait to try thanks for passing it along.
What a great looking salad! I was looking at the strawberry plants at the nursery...I may just have to give it a try.
My MIL always, always puts strawberries and red onion in her salads (even in the dead of winter), and I love the way it brightens things up. And it looks so pretty!
What is watercress like? Is it peppery? I don't see it here often, and when I do it's expensive.
The salad looks fantastic--of course! All your food does!
How about a future strawberry semifreddo?
You are so lucky! I can't find such nice looking strawberries here.
LOVE the first photo. And the salad looks great too! I've only had that cheese once, but really liked it.
This sounds like a great match! Aren't homegrown strawberries the best!
I just read in Bon Appetit that watercress and strawberries are two of the healthiest foods. The list also included bacon, but that's okay. :)
Salad looks great!
Strawberries fresh from your yard sound perfect!! How delicious...please send some here!
I really like this! My strawberries usually do not make it past the bowl in which they are washed :) I've been trying to save a few for baking, but I would love to use them in a creative salad like this as well!
These look so much better than any strawberries I've seen this season! Hopefully in a few weeks I'll start seeing more at the Farmer's Market here in the Northeast.
I need to eat more watercress. I rarely ever eat it and when I do, I wonder why I don't.
Strawberry season is one of hte best times of year! I must try this salad.
We eat ours as soon as we pick them so sorry no help here.
Watercress! Yum! This is so light and fresh.
Fresh and free strawberries...lucky you, sara. Colorful summer salad....you have always those healthy dishes at home, did your husband even complain that he has nothing else to eat?
What an interesting combination! Last summer I had my own, and it was wonderful... Now I have to buy them and have a hard time eating them all (I buy too many) Great salad idea... I dearly love cashews, too.
That looks delish! I love the strawberries.
simply delicious! That is one gorgeous bowl of strawberries.
Those strawberries look gorgeous!!! I've been trying to stay away from ohnuts.com, I know I would go crazy buying everything!! :)
Such a great combination of ingredients, love the addition of the cashews...the colors are so elegant. By the way, thank you so much for visiting my site.
Oh, Sara, this salad sounds so delicious and refreshing!! I can't wait to try this one out. What a great way to showcase the fabulous flavor of the strawberry. YUM!
Sounds fantastic! I love strawberries in a salad. I wish I had some in my backyard, but I've never tried growing them.
Simple and beautiful! I have little wild strawberries growing in my yard but they are not as gorgeous and plump as yours. How fun to have your own. This salad looks wonderful!
What a lovely basket of berries! How nice to have them right in your yard. That makes them extra sweet! Your salad looks elegant and delicious!!
Your salad look so pretty with the addition of that strawberry. Yummy!
What a gorgeous salad, and you're right, so perfect for summer! I love your strawberry and cashew combo!
Those strawberries look better than any you could by anywhere! So gorgeous! I really need a backyard! :-)
Amazing looking salad!
Ideas? Yes, send me some!
Amanda - Watercress is peppery, but delicious. It's also good mixed with other greens. The stems can be tough, so it needs to be trimmed well.
Angie - My husband doesn't complain about my cooking. Not much anyways!
Healthy salad... looks great :)
I love strawberries, and I aggre with selba Jakarta is too hot for plant strawberries, but In Bandung,west java more cool and many strawberries plant in there.
Great idea to include the cashews with the strawberries. We've started to get California strawberries in our market. How exciting to grow your own.
Sam
This is a great idea! I love strawberries in salads.
I have never had ricotta salata so I will have to hunt that one down. I am guessing that it is a firm ricotta? This salad is a classic!
Sara, that looks absolutely delicious! I'm anxiously awaiting strawberry season here...we have a few weeks to go yet.
The other day we had a tone of strawberries and I wanted to make a salad. This looks like a good one!
Definitely making this. Tonight I think!
Another home run Sara! Simple, sweet, salty. All my fave s'! I can't wait until my strawberries are ready for picking. HURRY!!!! I need to make a salad.
You know, I've never tried a salad with watercress - and I like your addition of honey into the dressing! I bet it was delish!
In my house the cashews might not make it passed opening them...and your strawberries are at a stones throw, how nice!
what a great summer salad! and you grow your own strawberries?! im jealous!
yum! looks like a perfect summer salad :)
Your pictures are gorgeous.
You might want to try a mixed greens salad with strawberries, avocado, cukes, and kiwis with a poppy seed dressing.
Mine was really good:
http://www.kitchensaremonkeybusiness.com/search?q=poppy+seed+dressing
How about strawberry pie?
This salad is perfection. I made a very similar one (didn't make my own dressing!) with some beautiful strawberries last week for my best friend's bridal shower. Everyone went crazy for it.
As for uses for the berries, you can make the warm strawberry crumb cake I blogged about last month. It's from Food & Wine and it's AWESOME.
Beautiful strawberries! I can't wait until it's strawberry season here. Unfortunately, I still have a couple of months to wait. Boo.
That salad looks so pretty. We tried growing some strawberries last year, but had only limited success.
Cool, I actually bought some watercress on Monday evening to make a salad that they were sampling but I think I'm going to try yours instead. thanks for sharing!
I live in Florida you'd think I would be growing something other than grass.
~ingrid
What a beautiful salad and such a great combination of ingredients!
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