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Spring Mix Salad with Hearts of Palm and Honey-Dijon Vinaigrette

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A colorful salad made with dark leafy greens, sliced hearts of palm, sliced red onions, chopped tomatoes and chopped boiled eggs sits on a white plate. A luscious, yellow  honey mustard dressing is drizzled over the top.

It’s officially spring y’all and we are all pretty ecstatic about it! These last few months have been gloomy and overcast around these parts and it’s restored some our energy to feel the sunshine again, for sure. My favorite part of Spring, aside from Easter and Spring Break, of course, are the amazing patches of vibrant wildflowers that are popping up all over the place now. Here in Texas the famously large patches of our state flower, the Bluebonnet, are being visited regularly by people wanting to take photos showcasing the gorgeous natural backdrop the flowers provide.

Here in our own yard, the grass is lush and green (thank you crazy, scary Spring thunderstorms!), our big trees are coming back to life, and my flowering shrubs and rose bushes are bursting with color. Being outside is our favorite place always, but the vivid colors of Spring are most definitely a bonus feast for the eyes lately.

A heart of palm is sliced and ready to use on a white cutting board. A sliced sections of green avocado and one half of a purple onion  are beside a knife on the cutting board also.

With so much inspiration to be taken from nature at the moment, I definitely feel motivated to start creating meals that are looking a lot lighter and brighter too. Lately, I’ve been loving mixed salads and having loads of fresh, leafy greens on my plate.

A salad is in a large, clear mixing bowl, ready to be tossed. The layers include dark leafy greens, chopped tomato, and a sliced heart palm. A sliced hard cooked egg sits beside the mixing bowl on a white cutting board.

This hearts of palm salad with homemade honey-Dijon vinaigrette is chock-full of bright colors, crisp, healthy veggies and delicious flavors. We’ve enjoyed it for lunch a few times in the last week and if we’ve had any left over vinaigrette, it’s been used up as a drizzle of dressing inside some ham and cheese tortilla-wrap sandwiches that we’ve been hooked on lately too. Those wraps have been absolutely stuffed with leafy greens too, just f.y.i. We’re seriously digging the rabbit food right now!

This is a two photo collage. One side shows a bright yellow honey mustard salad dressing in a mason jar. The other side depicts a plate of Spring Mix Salad on a white plate and a hand drizzling the honey mustard dressing onto the colorful salad.

If you are unfamiliar with hearts of palm, I think you’re in for a treat if you try them. They have a  terrific, mild, earthy flavor that is incredibly similar to artichokes and asparagus. They are the harvested inner core of the Cabbage Palm tree and are commonly imported to the U.S. from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and a few other South American countries. There are a few delicious ways to cook with them, but I enjoy eating them in my salads. Hearts of palm are good sources of folate, potassium, Vitamin C, calcium, iron, magnesium, fiber and a few other nutrients too. When they are packaged for sale, they are brined and pasteurized to ensure a healthy shelf life. So, I usually just give them a quick rinse and a pat-down dry with paper towels before I use them to reduce the sodium content a little bit.

Here’s just a few pics of some of those pretty wildflower patches I wrote about. We came across these near our house during our evening walk yesterday!

A field of wild flowers including bluebonnets and Indian paint brushes at sunset.
A lush field of wild bluebonnets in the sunlight.
A rose bush on the side of my home with gorgeous light red blooms.

I’ll be serving this flavorful salad as a starter on Easter Sunday along with these other family favorite recipes that I’ve shared here on the blog so far:

Weekend Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Mississippi Mud Cake

I’ll also be making a glazed ham and some homemade skillet dinner rolls that we can’t get enough of lately too. That dinner roll recipe will be posted very soon, so stay tuned, y’all!

Happy Easter, everyone!!

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Spring Mix Salad with Hearts of Palm and Honey-Dijon Vinaigrette

Recipe by Marcelle at A Little Fish in the Kitchen Course: Lunch, DinnerCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings

4-6

servings
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking timeminutes
Calories

300

kcal

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil

  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice

  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

  • 2 tablespoons honey

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper

  • 6 cups mixed baby greens, (I used an organic baby Spring mix from my grocer)

  • 1 jar (14.4 oz) hearts of palm, drained and cut into 1/3-inch thick slices

  • 1 large tomato, seeded and chopped or one cup cherry tomatoes halved

  • 1/2 cup red onion, thinly sliced

  • one large avocado, seeded and cubed

  • 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

Directions

  • Make the vinaigrette by whisking the first 6 ingredients together in a small bowl, adjust seasoning to taste, cover and set aside.
  • Place the salad green in large mixing bowl with the sliced hearts of palm and tomato bits and gently toss veggies to mix. Separate salad onto individual serving plates and top with sliced onion, avocado bits, chopped hard-boiled eggs and a drizzle of honey-Dijon vinaigrette, as desired.
  • Serve immediately and enjoy!

Recipe Video

Notes

  • Recipe from A Little Fish in the Kitchen blog at www.alittlefishinthekitchen.com. All content is owned by Marcelle G. Bolton. Please contact the author for permission to republish.Β 

16 Comments

  1. Hi Marcellina, thank you πŸ™‚

  2. I have seen heart of palm but never used it. I will buy some now that I've seen your recipe! It looks light and fresh.

  3. Hi Abbe! Thank you!! πŸ™‚

  4. Hearts of Palm is one of my faves! I have a favorite salad on my blog that I love and now I can't wait to try yours! And those flowers are fabulous!

  5. I hope your Easter was wonderful too, John!! Thank you! 😊

  6. Thank you, Grace! 😊

  7. I hope it warms up soon for y’all, Laura!!

  8. This looks excellent! So full of flavor and goodness, and it's not every day one sees heart of palm in a salad. Really nice — hope you had a terrific Easter Thanks!

  9. i've seen hearts of palm as an ingredient in salads at restaurants, but i'm pretty sure i've never eaten it and i DEFINITELY didn't know what it looked like! very festive salad!

  10. I wish it felt more like spring here. I am definitely eating like spring, so I guess that's something.

  11. Hi Liz, thank you! Happy Easter to you too!! <3

  12. I adore both hearts of palm and avocados, so this looks like my dream salad. Your dressing sounds perfect, too!! Will definitely make this!!! Happy Easter, Marcelle! xo

  13. Yes, bananas would have been weird!! πŸ˜‚ Thank you, David! Happy Easter to you and Mark!

  14. Looks wonderful! I was relieved to find that it was hearts of palm and not banana!! πŸ™‚

    Happy Easter to you all!

  15. Thank you, Angie!! Happy Easter! πŸ™‚

  16. What a great spring salad! I love those wild flowers…full of life and beautiful! Happy Spring, Marcelle!

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