Artichoke Salad

This delicious artichoke salad is full of marinated artichokes, lettuce, and more all topped with a delicious Italian seasoned dressing.

This salad has all those elements in it, along with just 5 basic ingredients and fresh tasting too. My inspiration for this salad is:

I have recently discovered that artichoke hearts have very few calories in them along with being quite tasty.  A friend of mine mentioned to me that she likes to throw mint into her salads which I have never tried before.  And I was reading my mother-in-law’s Sunset Magazine.  Put all those together and this salad was created.

Ingredients:

4 cups arugula

Parmesan cheese (grated) about 1/4 cup

12 to 15 bottled artichoke hearts (drained, rinsed, and chopped into bite size)

1 cup grape tomatoes, halves

Dressing:

1/2 lemon
2 TBS virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp sea salt

1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp black pepper

sea salt and ground pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Prepare the first 4 ingredients and put into a salad bowl.

2. Squeeze juice from the lemon over salad.

3. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the salad.

4. Toss and serve.

Can you get more simple?