Written by Crafty Spices
Join in as 8 bloggers come together and share with you a progressive dinner, online style. Each blog will "host" a course, and share with you a favorite recipe for the holiday season. This dinner is being hosted by:
We are looking forward to serving you! All you need to do is follow along the blogs, and you'll get a full course meal to bring in your holiday season! Thanks for joining us and being our guest!
We are so excited to be a part of this Thanksgiving Progressive Dinner and featuring our Healthy Salad with Spinach Mangoes, Sweet Potatoes, and tasty flavors.
Ready in: 20 minutes (12 Prep + 8 Bake) | Serves: 2 - 4 | Complexity: Easy
Ingredients
-
4 Cups of Spinach
-
2 tsp Freshly grounded Pink Salt
-
4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
-
2 Mangoes (one ripen and one half way)
-
1 Sweet potatoes
-
1 Cup dried cramberies
-
1 Cup Sliced Almonds
-
3/4 Cup Feta Cheese
Directions
-
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 C)
-
Rince and air dry spinach
-
Meanwhile, Cut and cube mangoes. Set aside
-
Wash and peel sweet potato, then make very thin slices using a potato peeler. (some call it peeling)
-
Place sweet potato slices in a baking pan and into the oven for about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside
-
Place spinach in a large serving bowl.
-
Add all ingredients except almonds, EVOO and feta cheese
-
Slitly fold in, mixing all ingredients together.
-
Serve and lastly add Feta cheese and almonds
-
Alternative Serving Option: Separate individual larger spinish leaves. Mix all ingredients except spinich, then plate large spinach and serve salad over each leaf. (See picture below, makes a great presentation)
This is it for our healthy: Thanksgiving Salad with spinach, mangoes and sweet potato.
Learning Time
Fun educational activities or questions to do with little ones while preparing this recipe.
-
When ever we are making a meal or anything for that matter in celebration of a holiday we explain to the little ones the meaning of the holiday and why we celebrate it.
-
Since this salad is for a Thanksgiving dinner we also made it while giving thanks for every ingredient that we included.
-
Talking to children about the benefits of certain foods while making a meal is a great way to get them involve and interested.
-
No only individual ingredients are good but in this case talking about why we eat salad.
-
Spinich is a leave but not all leave can be eaten, this is very impotant to clarify to little ones.
Learning can be a great experience, don't pass an opportunity.
Enjoy and don't forget to have Fun!!
Author: Jay
"Friend, companion, wife, and modern mom to 2 beautiful baby girls. Loves to travel and enjoys the outdoors, likes to cook and bake, enjoys doing crafty things and spending time with her family.
Hits: 11147