• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Joe's Healthy Meals

  • Home
  • About
    • Privacy Policy
  • Recipe Index
    • Meals
      • Breakfast
      • Lunch
      • Main dish
      • Fruit
    • Side dishes
    • Seafood
      • Salmon
      • Shrimp
      • Tuna
      • Crab
      • Scallops
      • Seafood Pasta
      • Mixed Seafood
    • Appetizers
    • Sauces
    • Salads
    • Pasta
    • Desserts
    • Meats
      • Beef
      • Chicken
      • Pork
      • Turkey
    • Condiments
    • Soup
    • Baking
    • Sandwiches
    • Tips
You are here: Home / Salads / Fresh Garden Greens Salad with Fruit and Yogurt Dressing

Fresh Garden Greens Salad with Fruit and Yogurt Dressing

June 8, 2018 By Joe Boyle 1 Comment

97 shares
  • Facebook
Jump to Recipe

Last Updated on October 2, 2024

Now is the time to pick those leafy greens from the garden and make a fresh garden greens salad. And I hope you don’t mind that I mix in a lot of fresh fruits and top it with a homemade yogurt dressing.

Fresh garden greens salad with fruit and yogurt dressing.

If you don’t have a garden, (or a friendly neighbor with a garden), just grab some spring mix greens from your local grocer. It’s all good.

Fresh Garden Greens Salad

There is something about warmer weather that makes the idea of a light, low calorie salad like this seem appealing. Maybe it has to do with outdoor grilling. Oh yeah, I did just grill up some Brined Chicken Thighs and some Orange Glazed Shrimp. This salad would be a natural with either of these grilled meats.

Garden salad with strawberries and peach slices.

My daughter Josie planted a gourmet blend of leaf lettuces and some curly endive. I picked and cleaned a bunch of these two, then grabbed a couple sprigs of tarragon. The tarragon has a kind of sweetness that goes well with the other fruits. The tarragon was sprinkled on after the dressing as a kind of garnish…if you can actually call this a garnish on a fresh garden greens salad!

Pouring yogurt dressing on a salad.

The dressing is a simple Greek yogurt recipe. I adapted it from a Dole recipe, (you know…the pineapple people). Their recipe called for 1/4 cups yogurt, 1 tsp. vinegar, 1 tsp evoo…yadda yadda.   This is a salad dressing…it’s not rocket science. The recipe amounts are guidelines and I usually don’t measure ingredients for dressings but make an educated guess, mix it up and take a taste. And this one tasted great. Ok…the recipe card below has the ingredient amounts.

Close up garden greens salad with fruit and yogurt dressing.

 

The fruits in the salad included: strawberries, blueberries, peaches, and some grill charred pineapple, and charred red onions. Use what you have on hand and make a freshly picked garden greens salad with homemade low calorie Greek yogurt dressing to top it off.

Here are some more salad recipes you might like:

  • Smoked Salmon and Egg Salad
  • Shaved Radish Salad with Feta Cheese
  • Kale and Fennel salad
  • Peach Cucumber Salad
  • Fresh Greens Salad with Basil and Mint
  • Traditional Caesar Salad
Fresh garden greens salad with fruit and yogurt dressing.

Fresh Garden Greens Salad with Fruit and Yogurt Dressing

This is a salad with fresh spring mix greens, fresh fruit topped with a Greek yogurt dressing. 
5 from 1 vote
Print Pin Rate Save Saved Recipe
Course: Salad, Salad dressing
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Fresh garden greens salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 36kcal
Author: Joe Boyle

Ingredients

Dressing

  • 1/3 cup 2% Greek yogurt
  • 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp white wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp fresh squeezed orange juice
  • salt and black pepper to taste

Salad

  • 5 oz. fresh garden greens, washed and chilled or spring mix greens from the grocery
  • 2 cups sliced strawberries
  • 1 ripe peach, cut into wedges
  • 3/4 cup blueberries
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh pineapple, approx. 1" cubes
  • fresh tarragon leaves if desired
  • 1/2 red onion, cut into wedges
Prevent your screen from going dark

Instructions

Dressing

  • Whisk all ingredients in a small bowl. Add salt and pepper to your taste. Keep refrigerated until used.

Salad

  • Mix greens and fruit in a large bowl or on individual serving dishes and serve with the yogurt dressing on the side.

Notes

The nutrition label is for the dressing only, assuming 4 servings.
 

Nutrition

Calories: 36kcal
 

97 shares
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Salads, Sauces

Previous Post: « Grilled Shrimp Kabobs with Orange Glaze
Next Post: Curly Endive Lettuce Salad with Bacon and Poached Egg »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Eileen Herbert

    June 9, 2018 at 2:10 pm

    5 stars
    Sounds wonderful!

    Reply
5 from 1 vote

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Joe profile picture.

           Hi, I’m Joe!

I know you can make healthy food using unprocessed, easy-to-find ingredients. Most of my recipes don’t take a lot of time to make, but taste amazingly good. Glad you found me…let’s get cooking.

About Me

Are you ready to make delicious meals from fresh ingredients? Come along and never miss a new recipe post.

Featured in

Companies that have featured me on their website.

Search for recipes

Copyright © joeshealthymeals.com 2013 - 2025 -     All Rights Reserved    
Privacy Policy   Web Accessibility Statement

Rate This Recipe

Your vote:




A rating is required
A name is required
An email is required

Recipe Ratings without Comment

Something went wrong. Please try again.