• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Get our Freezer Meal Quick Start Guide
freezer meal quick start guide

Get Our Freezer Meal Quick Start Guide

Loading

About
Free Resources
Contact

Instagram

Facebook

Pinterest

YouTube

TikTok

Thriving Home

Food & Lifestyle

  • Recipe Index
    • Course
      • Breakfast
      • Lunch & Dinner
      • Sides & Salads
      • Soups & Chilis
      • Appetizers
      • Snacks
      • Desserts
      • Baked Goods
      • Beverages
      • Condiments
    • Method
      • Freezer Meals
      • Stovetop
      • Oven
      • Slow Cooker
      • Instant Pot
      • Grill or Smoker
      • 6 Ingredients or Less
    • Diet
      • Gluten-Free
      • Dairy-Free
      • Vegetarian
    • Ingredients
      • Chicken & Turkey
      • Beef
      • Pork
      • Seafood
      • Pasta & Pizza
    • Holiday
      • Birthday
      • Christmas
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • Thanksgiving
      • Valentine's Day
    • All Recipes
  • Freezer Cooking
    • Start Here
    • Freezer Meal Recipes
    • 1 Hour Freezer Prep
    • Cookbooks
  • Menu Plans
  • Shop
    • Cookbooks
    • 1 Hour Freezer Prep
    • Shop Our Favorites
    • Gift Guides
Search...
Home Recipe Index

Strawberry Fields Spinach Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

★★★★★ 5 /5 Updated: 9/8/22
Jump to Recipe Rate Recipe

This post may contain affiliate or sponsored links. Please read our disclosure policy.

Perfect for an Easter holiday table or weeknight meal, this colorful spinach salad packs a flavor punch with every bite! Spinach, strawberries, bacon, feta, red onion, and more are topped with a mild, lemony, sweet dressing that’s sure to please all ages.

spinach salad on table with dressing

Disclaimer: This post is created in partnership with Burgers’ Smokehouse.

The Perfect Strawberry Spinach Salad

We created this Strawberry Fields Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette to be the perfect spinach salad for your Easter brunch table, but it’s versatile enough to work anytime! The vibrant colors of strawberries, spinach, and red onions and the bright golden dressing make this salad part of the lively table decorations. Thanks to the delicious Burgers’ Smokehouse Bacon, every bite is a salty-tangy-sweet combo.

spinach salad on table

Salad Dressing Cheat Sheet

Our best homemade salad dressings all in one place!

  1. Download it.
  2. Print it.
  3. Use it over and over again!
Loading

Our Favorite Bacon

The Burgers’ Smokehouse Uncured Bacon (or any of their bacon!) takes this salad to the major leagues. This family-owned mid-Missouri business uses their age-old family recipe to cure bacon with a mixture of salt, brown sugar and pepper, then slow-smoke it over natural wood chips…never adding any water. Because who wants to cook water with their bacon?

Burgers' Smokehouse Uncured Bacon

The Uncured Country Bacon is unique in that they use their traditional dry cured recipe without the added Sodium Nitrite. So, this bacon includes no MSG, gluten, preservatives, or added nitrate or nitrite. I find it in the Health Food section at our local Hy-Vee stores. Or you can order it online here.

spinach salad with strawberries and bacon

The result of their method: perhaps the most flavorful bacon that I’ve ever had. Don’t buy Burgers’ Bacon if you want to be a little disappointed with all other bacon in the future. Consider yourself warned. 😉

About the 3 Ingredient Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing

While I love talking about bacon, let’s chat about this golden goodness in the form of dressing, shall we?

spinach salad on table and dressing

The Lemon Vinaigrette for this spinach salad only requires THREE main ingredients! This simple, elegant dressing provides a little extra sweetness (thanks to the honey) and tartness (thanks to the lemon juice and zest) to balance out the saltiness of the bacon and bite of the red onion. It’s a mild, lighter dressing that anyone will like and complements, rather than masks, the flavors of the different ingredients in the salad.

spinach salad on table

Bonus: You can throw this beautiful Strawberry Fields Spinach Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette together in just minutes. Serve it at your next holiday meal or gathering, and you and your guests may be singing “Strawberry Fields forever!”

Did you make this? Snap a photo and tag us on Instagram at @thrivinghome so we can see your creations and cheer you on!

spinach salad on table
★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews

Strawberry Spinach Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

This colorful spring-inspired salad packs a flavor punch with every bite! Spinach, strawberries, bacon, feta, red onion, and more are topped with a mild, lemony, sweet dressing that’s sure to please all ages.

Yield: 8 side salads 1x
Prep: 10 minutesCook: 0 minutesTotal: 10 minutes
Print Recipe Rate Pin for Later
  • Email
Scale:

Ingredients

For the Vinaigrette:

  • 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (about juice of 3 large lemons)
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, to taste
  • 1/2 cup Extra Virgin olive oil

For the Salad:

  • 8 cups baby spinach, loosely packed
  • 1/2 pound Burgers’ Smokehouse Uncured Bacon, cooked and chopped (find this at Hy-Vee and other local grocery stores)
  • 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted*
  • ½ cup thinly sliced red onion
  • 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries
  • 4 ounces crumbled goat cheese or feta cheese

Before You Begin! If you make this, please leave a review and rating letting us know how you liked this recipe! This helps our business thrive & continue providing free recipes.

Instructions

  1. Make the Vinaigrette: Add all the ingredients to a mason jar with lid. Seal tightly and shake until combined. Taste and adjust the seasoning to your preference. This dressing can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
  2. Assemble the Salad: On a serving platter, add the spinach. Top with the bacon, toasted almonds, red onion, strawberries, and cheese.
  3. Shake up the dressing and serve alongside the salad.

Notes/Tips

*To Toast the Almonds: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place the almonds on a rimmed sheet pan. Bake for about 4 minutes. Give them a shake, and bake another 3-5 minutes until they begin to smell toasted and are starting to turn golden. Keep a close eye on them, so they don’t burn! Remove from the oven and immediately transfer to a plate or parchment paper to cool.

© Author: Rachel Tiemeyer from Thriving Home
Cuisine: American Method: Mix

Did you make this?

Snap a photo and tag us on Instagram at @thrivinghome so we can see your creations and cheer you on!

Rate Recipe

Tag Us on Instagram

spinach salad on table
461 shares
  • Share
  • Email
Rachel Tiemeyer

Rachel Tiemeyer

As co-founder of Thriving Home, Rachel dreams about creating recipes (literally) and uses her husband, her 3 kids, and even the neighbors as guinea pigs several nights a week. She believes that good food has the power to bring families and friends closer together and continues to wake up excited about her job each day, even after 10+ years!

Read more...

Reader Interactions

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Have a question? Submit your question or comment below.

Recipe rating ★☆ ★☆ ★☆ ★☆ ★☆

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

  1. AvatarShawna says

    Posted on 3/7/21 at 5:45 pm

    This was so simple & amazing! I had no almonds, so I used pepitas & as well as blueberry chèvre! Definitely a keeper!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Rachel TiemeyerRachel Tiemeyer says

      Posted on 3/8/21 at 8:01 am

      Yum! Love your swap-out ideas!

      Reply

sidebar

polly and rachel

Welcome

We’re moms, cookbook authors, and freezer cooking evangelists. Our mission is to help your home thrive, one delicious meal at a time. Let’s make the most of your time in the kitchen! Read more.

Follow Us On Instagram!

freezer cooking

Order On:

Amazon • Target

Autographed Copy

Learn More

freezer to table

Order On:

Amazon • Target

Autographed Copy

Learn More
freezer meal quick start guide

Get Our Freezer Meal Quick Start Guide!

We’ll send you the best of the best recipes, tutorials, and freezer meal expertise. A $9.99 value for free!

Loading

Reader Favorites

marinades for chicken breasts in freezer bags

7 BEST Chicken Marinades

freezer meal

The 70+ Best Freezer Meals on the Planet

20+ Easy Crock Pot Recipes

smoothie packs

7 Frozen Smoothie Packs (+ Printable with Shopping List)

freezer meal update
New to freezer cooking?

Grab Our Freezer Meal Quick Start Guide!

5 days of recipes & tips from freezer meal experts.

Loading

Instagram

Facebook

Pinterest

YouTube

TikTok

About
About Us
Work With Us
Press
Recipes
All Recipes
Freezer Meals
Menu Plans
Shop
Cookbooks
1 Hour Prep Sessions
Gift Guides
Explore
Free Resources
Shop Our Favorites
Facebook Group
Privacy Policy
Accessibility
Disclaimers
Contact
© 2023 Thriving Home
Site Credits
Designed by Melissa Rose Design Developed by Once Coupled
Back to Top
461 shares