This red white and blue salad is bursting with all the goodness of summer! Ripe, juicy berries combine with spinach and goat cheese for a strawberry spinach salad that is sweet, savory, and nutricious.
Combine strawberries, olive oil, vinegar, honey, and mustard in a food processor. Pulse until smooth. Fold in poppyseeds.
Toss with spinach to evenly coat your greens.
Spread the coated spinach onto a platter if you're creating a flag.Add your blueberries to the left top corner of your salad display.Add sliced strawberries into stripes across, lengthwise.Finally, create small balls of coat cheese by rolling it into ½ inch spheres in your hands.Add goat cheese spheres to be the white stripes in your 4th of July salad display!
Notes
Tips
Goat cheese is easier to work with when chilled. Make goat cheese balls ahead and refrigerate until you are ready to assemble.
Use strawberries of a similar size to make stripes.
Scale up for large groups.
VariationsYou can use the dressing of your choice.