Make a simple and light salad for lunch if you are watching that waistline. Here’s a lovely and colourful salad that you can easily toss up in 20 minutes to serve about 4 persons. Absolutely easy stuff to make!

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Ingredients needed:

• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons snipped fresh tarragon
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped shallot
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Dash of black pepper
• 8 cups fresh baby spinach
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes and/or yellow pear-shape cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
• 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion
• 2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled

Cooking method:

1. For dressing, combine the olive oil, rice vinegar, tarragon, shallot, salt and pepper in a jar. Cover the jar tightly and shake well.
2. Arrange the spinach and tomatoes on a platter. Top it with the red onions and blue cheese.
3. Drizzle the salad with the dressing.

Nutrition facts per serving:

• 236 calories
• 22 gram total fat (5 gram saturated fat)
• 13 milligram cholesterol
• 449 milligram sodium
• 5 gram carbo
• 2 gram fiber
• 5 gram protein

Is this meal nutritious for you? Find out more here on my nutrition page.

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