Recipe Low Carb Salad on a Stick

Low Carb Salad on a Stick

Ingredients

4 cups romaine lettuce, chopped into large chunks (a 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 teaspoon Parmesan cheese
4 wooden, bamboo or other disposable skewers (such as plastic), see shopping tips

Method 

1. To make each salad stick:
a. Place 1 little triangle of salami on wooden stick.
b. Make a small stack of lettuce (about ¼ cup of lettuce) and thread onto stick.
c. Next add 1 olive
d. Add 1 more stack of lettuce
e. Add 1 tomato
f. Repeat these steps two more times ending with 2 triangles of salami on top
g. Place on serving plate. Drizzle each with 2 teaspoons salad dressing and sprinkle ½ teaspoon Parmesan cheese on each.

2. These can be prepped in advance and stored in the refrigerator. Drizzle the dressing and sprinkle with cheese just before serving.

3. This recipes can be doubled, tripled and so on.

Makes 4 serving. Each serving 1 salad stick with dressing and cheese.