Salmon and Green Vegetable Salad with Green Goddess Dressing

Take your salad to the next level with this Salmon and Green Vegetable Salad with Green Goddess Dressing! Loaded with asparagus, sugar snap peas, cucumber and zucchini ribbons. Top it with salmon and a fresh, herbaceous and healthy dressing for the perfect summer dinner.

Thanks to Gorton’s Seafood for sponsoring this post. As always all opinions are my own.

In case you missed it last week, it snowed in Colorado. It’s the latest I’ve seen it snow since we moved here 4 years ago. While everyone else was posting pictures on Instagram sitting outside, swimming, wearing shorts and sandals, I was pulling out the winter coat…again. Growing up in Arizona, sometimes it’s still surreal to me that it can snow in May. Hopefully…knock on wood, that was the last of it.

The saying around here is that you wait until Memorial Day to plant your garden, and luckily I was smart and held off. My plan is to attack the garden this weekend. In the past I’ve had a lot of success with zucchini, tomatoes, sugar snap peas and basil.

This year I’m planning to try cauliflower, beets and cucumbers as well. It’s such a satisfying feeling being able to make something with the things you grow and this Salmon and Green Vegetable Salad with Green Goddess Dressing will be perfect for this year’s harvest.

During the warm months I’m all about salads, but I need a variety of them. I can’t just eat the same salad every day or I lose interest. I like to pack my salads full of as many different vegetables as I can. It not only gives them more flavor and texture, but more nutrients as well. If I’m having a salad as a main dish it’s almost always topped with some kind of protein. Grilling chicken or salmon are my favorites, but sometimes I’m short on time or forget to pull it out of the freezer to defrost and that’s where Gorton’s Seafood Classic Grilled Salmon comes in handy.

Gorton’s Seafood has been providing consumers with their trustworthy products for 167 years. It’s easy to spot their products at the grocery store, just look for the iconic fisherman in the yellow raincoat. You might remember a couple months ago when I made these Crispy Fish Taco Bowls using Gorton’s classic line, they’re great for an easy weeknight dinner and a fun way to change up taco night.

I recently discovered that they also have other lines of products and was particularly drawn to their Classic Grilled Salmon. The salmon is wild caught and gluten-free as well. At only 90 calories per serving and 15 grams of protein, it’s a great way to turn this Green Vegetable Salad with Green Goddess Dressing into a main dish salad.

I’ll be enjoying this easy and healthy salad all summer long and I’m especially excited to make it when all the green vegetables start popping up in my garden!

Salmon and Green Vegetable Salad with Green Goddess Dressing

Yield: 2 servings

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

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Ingredients

Salmon and Green Vegetable Salad

• 1 box Gorton's Seafood Classic Grilled Salmon (2 fillets per box)
• 4 cups mixed baby greens
• 1 cup sugar snap peas, raw or blanched
• 1 cup asparagus, raw or blanched and cut into 2 inch pieces
• 1 zucchini peeled into ribbons using a vegetable peeler
• 1/2 of a cucumber peeled into ribbons using a vegetable peeler

Green Goddess Dressing

• 1/2 cup plain non-fat Greek yogurt
• 1 green onion, sliced thin
• 1/4 cup packed basil leaves
• 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley
• 1/2 of a lemon, juiced
• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic
• Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

Green Goddess Dressing

1. Place all of the ingredients for the dressing into a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Taste for seasoning, then cover and refrigerate until ready to use. Makes approximately 1 cup of dressing.

Salmon and Green Vegetable Salad

1. Bake the salmon according to package instructions.
2. Fill two bowls with equal amounts of the mixed baby greens and vegetables.
3. Top the salads with the salmon and desired amount of green goddess dressing.

Nutrition Information:

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 0 Total Fat: 0g Saturated Fat: 0g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 0mg Fiber: 0g Sugar: 0g Protein: 0g