Here’s your nondairy Sunday Scratchups for the week! While I was putting together a Caprese Salad for MashupDad and myself with some sale mozzarella and tomatoes this week, I kept thinking, well, how can I make a dairy free version of this for Junior High Guy to enjoy?
- Looking for regular mozzarella based Caprese Salad? Find the Easy Caprese Salad with spinach recipe here.
So I decided to give it a go with avocado as a nondairy substitute for the usual mozzarella, since it has a similar creamy texture and mouthfeel. Plus, we already know avocados go great with balsamic vinegar, so how could it be bad?
Dairy Free Caprese Salad with spinach was a great addition to our Salad Bar Saturday, giving Dairy Free Junior High Guy another filling option that he quite enjoyed. (He disappeared all the avocado out of it posthaste, so if you have your own dairy free avocado lover, you might want to up the avocado-to-tomato ratio here!)
Dairy Free Caprese Salad with spinach
Ingredients
2 oz fresh spinach
One vine ripe tomato
One medium avocado
Basil leaves
1/2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
Kosher salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
Directions
Cover a large plate with fresh spinach leaves. Slice your avocado and tomatoes, then just start layering them across your plate on top of the spinach. Avocado slice, basil leaf, tomato slice, repeat until the entire plate is covered.
Drizzle your salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, then add Kosher salt and pepper to taste. That’s it! Just as easy as the traditional version, and darn tasty in and of itself.
Easy print version
Dairy Free Caprese Salad -- with spinach
Ingredients
- 2 oz fresh spinach
- One vine ripe tomato
- One medium avocado
- Basil leaves
- 1/2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Kosher salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cover a large plate with fresh spinach leaves.
- Slice your avocado and tomatoes, then just start layering them across your plate on top of the spinach. Avocado slice, basil leaf, tomato slice, repeat until the entire plate is covered.
- Drizzle your salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, then add Kosher salt and pepper to taste.
