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Farmer’s Salad
This easy farmer’s salad recipe was given to me by my friend Sharon. It’s light, simple to make, and tastes wonderful–it’s perfect for the summer!! I loved the combination of soft cottage cheese, crunchy vegetables, and dill. I also really liked that there is no dressing on this salad because it just doesn’t need it. My husband and I loved it and my kids thought it was pretty good.
Farmer’s Salad:
Ingredients:
- 1 lb container of large curd cottage cheese
- 1 cup of yellow bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup of orange bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup of grape tomatoes
- 1 cup of sugar snap peas, diced
- 1 cup of cucumber, peeled & diced
- 4-5 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- Dash of garlic powder
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
How to Make a Farmer’s Salad
Combine the cottage cheese with the yellow bell pepper, orange bell pepper, grape tomatoes, sugar snap peas, and cucumber in a large bowl.
Add the chopped dill and season with a dash of garlic powder, sea salt, and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.
Mix until evenly coated. Taste and re-season if needed. Serve immediately. Enjoy.
Servings: 4
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb container of large curd cottage cheese
- 1 cup of yellow bell pepper diced
- 1 cup of orange bell pepper diced
- 1 cup of grape tomatoes
- 1 cup of sugar snap peas diced
- 1 cup of cucumber peeled & diced
- 4-5 tbsp fresh dill chopped
- Dash of garlic powder
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine the cottage cheese with the yellow bell pepper, orange bell pepper, grape tomatoes, sugar snap peas, and cucumber in a large bowl.
- Add the chopped dill and season with a dash of garlic powder, sea salt, and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.
- Mix until evenly coated. Taste and re-season if needed. Serve immediately. Enjoy.
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This sounds great – I love all of the veggies (and dill!!) mixed in with the cottage cheese. Great and different – love it:-).
My family has been eating this for generations! We had it in the summer when my dad was working and not at home for dinner. mom always swerved this with corn on the cob! We didn’t like raw green peppers, so mom left them out, but she ultimately added whatever fresh veg she had in the fridge. Always added raw, thinly sliced radishes. My moms favorite and mine, too.
Sounds very healthy…and high protein.
I'm liking this! Would make a great lunch for me to take to work. Thanks for sharing.
That looks like a very refreshing summer salad!
looks colorful and delicious !!
Indian Cuisine
I enjoy all of these things separately, is never dawned on me to combine them all. Loving this recipe, Pam.
So simple and so yummy by the look of it. Diane
I love it when a simple toss-up works so beautifully! This IS a great recipe!
Healthy, colorful, and crunchy!
What a great use for cottage cheese. I bet this was delicious! Love the idea.
I'm not usually a fan of cottage cheese, but I would eat that… Oh yea, I would so eat that 🙂
The cottage cheese and dill sound wonderful! Great, "different" salad!
Pretty much agree with everyone else! What a light, healthy salad. And great use for plain old cottage cheese.
Mmm cottage cheese…it's been too long!
Not bad, it has no meat in that, but it looks refreshing anyway. Richard
I often use cottage cheese in lieu of salad dressing. More nutrition and all that. Your salad is very pretty; I'm sure it was excellent with dinner and for lunch!
Thanks for offering your condolences on Thor. It helps to know he was special to you, too.
Now on my to do list! This looks perfect minus the dill, LOL, for my work lunch. I am at a loss for ideas of what to pack now that I am a working mom, again. YUM!!
That sounds so good!
This is really interesting, Pam. I like everything separately, so I think I'm going to try this. The protein in the cottage cheese would be a great plus!
Thanks Pam, thanks Sharon:) This recipe sounds GREAT!!! I love "no dressing needed" salads and this one sure is a keeper!!!
Perfect for Labor Day!
This looks and sounds delicious…and its so colorful. It works well with the special nutritional dishes I am looking for right now.
Sounds great. I love the idea of the cottage cheese along with the vegetables.
Oh my goodness, this looks very delicious. It makes me hungry. I will try this recipe too one of these days if you don't mind. 🙂 Thanks!
Thank you for the wonderful memories. My mom used to make this but she called it Farmer’s Chop Suey. I’ve never known anyone to make it besides her. It is such a refreshing salad that works with any vegetables you have on hand.
The original for this is an old Jewish dish, orobably from Europe. Farmer’s Salad is cottage cheese and sour cream base wigh chopped cukes, green pepper, radish, celery and onion. I don’t add sslt but use plenty of black pepper. Yum!
I love this salad. Been making it for years. I was taught it is equal parts of sour cream and cottage cheese. I sometimes sub plain yogurt for the sour cream.
Traditional veggies are cuke, green pepper, scallion or other onion, and radish. Sometimes tomatoes.
Salt and pepper.