Low Carb Salad on a Stick, Italian-Style
Ingredients
- 4 cups romaine lettuce, chopped into large chunks (1 bag of chopped romaine lettuce will work)
- 8 large black olives, pitted
- 8 small cherry tomatoes or grape tomatoes
- 6 slices of reduced-fat salami, each slice cut into fours, see shopping tips
- 8 teaspoons light dressing, such as Girard’s light Champagne or Cardini’s Light Caesar, see shopping tips
- 2 teaspoons Parmesan cheese
- 4 wooden, bamboo or other disposable skewers (such as plastic), see shopping tips
Instructions
To make each salad stick:
- Place 1 little triangle of salami on a wooden stick.
- Make a small stack of lettuce (about ¼ cup of lettuce) and thread onto stick.
- Next, add 1 olive.
- Add 1 more stack of lettuce.
- Add 1 tomato.
- Repeat these steps two more times ending with 2 triangles of salami on top.
- Place on serving plate. Drizzle each with 2 teaspoons salad dressing and sprinkle ½ teaspoon Parmesan cheese on each.
- These can be prepped in advance and stored in the refrigerator. Drizzle the dressing and sprinkle with cheese just before serving.
- This recipe can be doubled, tripled, and so on.
Nutrition
Serving: 1stickCalories: 72kcalCarbohydrates: 4gProtein: 4gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 412mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gBlue Smart Points: 2Green Smart Points: 2