Greek Salad with Homemade Dressing

This version of a greek salad from Charlie Allred combines some traditional ingredients with her own preferences and tops with her homemade dressing.  

This recipe makes 4 servings and has less-than 6g net carbs per serving.

Ingredients

Salad:

• 2 cups lettuce of your choice
• 1 tomato
• 1 cucumber

Add any other traditional ingredients you'd like, such as olives and onions, and adjust nutritional information accordingly.

Dressing:

• 1/4 cup lemon juice (or substitute with red wine vinegar)
• 1/2 cup avocado oil (or substitute with olive oil)
• 1 TBSP Italian seasoning
• 1 tsp granulated onion
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 2 TBSP crumbled feta cheese

Directions

Chop the tomato and the cucumber, and add them to lettuce.

The dressing starts with 1/4 a cup of lemon juice. Then I add 1/2 cup of avocado oil. You can use olive oil for this diabetic greek salad dressing. But, I like using avocado oil as it’s one of my favorite products and I usually have it on hand. Then I added some Italian seasoning, granulated onion (you can use fresh) and garlic powder (you can use fresh). The last ingredient is feta cheese! It helps the dressing gain a little creaminess without the use of mayo. I add all the ingredients to a small mason jar and shake it up. Let it sit for maybe 5 minutes before you drizzled it on your greek salad. Enjoy!

About Charlie Allred:

Charlie has lived with type 1 diabetes for 15 years. 

All of her tips & tricks have been learned through trial and error. She believes in a low carb life and cooks low carb for her whole family. Her goal is to keep her a1c near 6.0 to avoid diabetic complications. She is living her healthiest life and sees diabetes as a blessing to compel her to live her best life! She adds new recipes to her blog, healthydiabetic.us regularly. She wrote the book Blood Sugar Hacks to help people with diabetes lower their blood glucose level. She looks forward to you living your healthiest life!

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