Craving a salad with robust flavor? Try this zesty combo of fresh cucumbers, red onions, cherry tomatoes, and kalamata olives mixed with our tasty sausage patties, bread cubes and tangy feta cheese. Add your favorite balsamic vinaigrette dressing and you have a hearty salad to serve along with a nice grilled steak.
Italian Bread & Sausage Salad
Directions
- Into a large glass or ceramic serving bowl, place each of the lemon soaked onions slices, red & yellow bell peppers, tomato quarters, sliced cucumber pieces, chopped olives, and feta cheese cubes.
- Sprinkle the Swaggerty's Farm Sausage quarter cut patty pieces over the top.
- Drizzle over all the ingredients, about ½ cup of the balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
- Top salad with bread cubes and toss well. Make sure you coat all the vegetables and bread with some of the dressing. Add more dressing if desired.
Notes
If you want to make this salad ahead of time, make it through step #3, and place in the refrigerator loosely covered.
A hearty ciabatta bread will resist getting soggy, even mixed in the salad after a few days.
To Serve
When ready to serve, add bread cubes, toss well, and serve immediately.
6 - 8
servings
10 - 15 min
prep time
5 min
cook time
ingredients
5 Swaggerty's Farm Sausage Patties, cooked until golden brown, then each one cut into quarters to make 20 wedges of sausage, drain until ready to add to the salad
½ of a small red onion thinly sliced tossed in lemon juice
½ red bell & ½ yellow bell pepper chopped
1 cucumber cut in half lengthwise, seeded & thinly sliced
1 pint grape or cherry tomatoes cut into quarters
½ cup chopped pitted Kalamata olives or other black or green olives
1 cup cubed Feta Cheese
½ loaf Ciabatta or French Bread cut into large cubes
Your favorite bottled Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
Level of complexity:
Easy
Number of ingredients:
11
Pairs well with:
Grilled steak or chicken, as a light entree, or double for a party side
Special Kitchen Tools:
N/A
