Napa Chopped Salad
If you love antipasti you will love this salad. It is basically antipasti in the form of a salad! You won’t be able to stop eating it! Fresh, crisp, zingingly full of flavor!
I landed in Sacramento and stayed at the Hyatt hotel on the campus of the University of California at Davis. A very nice hotel BTW! Smack dab in the middle of our adventure we got to eat at Redd Wood in Yountville. I don’t know if I was just really hungry or if the food at this restaurant was exceptionally good, but I have been thinking about it practically every waking moment since!
We ate family style which was super fun! They placed plates full of pasta, pizza, and salads all around the table and we all shared! It was just how I like to eat, together!
One of the salads we were served, was so amazing that I had to recreate it at home. I’ve been dreaming of this Chopped Salad! Do you ever eat out somewhere and then obsess over what you’ve had? Sometimes it’s not something I want to go to the trouble of making at home, but then other times I just can’t help myself! This one is pretty easy, just a lot of chopping, obviously, but OH it’s worth it!
I was so busy picking it apart and basically not sharing it and just mowing down that, I didn’t get any pics of the original. I couldn’t find the exact same beans, and I didn’t make my own red wine vinaigrette I bought a good one and used it instead.
I have a weird family, no one like olives. Who are these people. No one would eat it, well my oldest son did, but he picked off the olives. More for me! So I pretty much once again took on this salad all by myself, over the course of two days, just for clarification.
Napa Chopped Salad
Ingredients
- 1 head of Romaine Lettuce washed and chopped in to thin slices
- 1 cup of Frisee or Arugula lettuce chopped into smaller than bite sized pieces
- 1 cup of Radicchio cleaned and cut in to thin pieces
- 6 Radishes sliced thin
- 1/2 cup Red Onion sliced paper thin
- 1 15 ounce can of Cannellini or Garbanzo Beans drained and rinsed
- 1 can Black Olives cut in half
- 10 slices Salami sliced into thin strips
- 3 ounces Provolone Cheese cut into thin strips
- 1/2 cup Pepperocini’s chopped
- fresh cracked black pepper per your taste
- Red Wine vinaigrette
Instructions
- 1 Cup Red Wine Vinaigrette, make your own (HERE is a great one) or use your favorite bottled variety
- In the order given above place ingredients in a large bowl, give a light toss. If you are eating the salad as a whole immediately drizzle with vinaigrette and toss to coat, add a few turns of fresh ground black pepper. However, if you will be eating this salad over the course of a couple of days add vinaigrette to your plated salad as you go.
Notes
I hope you are eating something YUM with family or friends this weekend!
Much love, Sheila
From all the places we ate in California for me this was the high point and that salad was also my favorite great recipe amiga!
MMMM… Now I’m craving this again! Lucky for all of us, you’ve created a no-fail recipe 🙂 Thanks Sheila! It was awesome to have you with us on the Taste Tour!
I can’t wait to make this salad! It was so delicious at Redd Wood, and I can’t wait to recreate it with your recipe! : )
I love meats, cheeses and beans in salads!!! So glad you had fun in Cali!
It was an amazing trip, I’m so glad that I was able to go!!
I have a thing for chopped salads. This looks like an awesome one!!
I recently made your Mediterranean Salad, it was a huge hit!
You do get around. 🙂 I love this salad!
I would LOVE to get around to seeing YOU!! xoxo, Sheila