Spinach and Wild Rice Salad

Today, the youngest baby, and only boy in our extended family, had his baptism.  Most family gatherings of ours involve large amounts of BBQ.  After all, we do live in Texas!  So, being vegan, we offered to bring a dish.  We wanted to do something that everyone would enjoy and came up with this awesome salad.

Best. Salad. Ever.  We will be making this again.  It was a huge hit at the baptism as well.  Even all the meat eaters enjoyed it.  So, I had to share it with you all.  This dish is fairly easy to make and you can do most of the prep work the night before.
That is exactly what we did.

Spinach and Wild Rice Salad

Spinach and Wild Rice Salad

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Prep Time 15 min

Ingredients

• 3 cups spinach
• 2 cups edamame de shelled
• 2 cups wild rice cooked
• 1 cup carrot julienned (about 2-3 carrots total)
• 1 cup halved baby tomatoes
• 1/2 cup mushroom finely chopped (about 13 button mushrooms)
• 1/2 T garlic powder
• 1/4 cup purple onion sliced very thin
• 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar

Instructions

1. Like I said above, you can cut the carrots, onion and mushroom ahead of time.
2. Steam the edamame for a minute or two.
3. Then throw all the ingredients in a large bowl and toss with the balsamic.

by Melissa King

Recipe Notes

If you wish, you can add an optional 1-2 T of olive oil. We did not and it still tasted great. This make a very large amount so you should be able to get a few meals out of it. Enjoy!