Keto Goat Cheese & Salmon Salad With Sugar Free Raspberry Vinaigrette

This keto goat cheese & salmon salad with it’s sweet and tangy, sugar free raspberry vinaigrette dressing is a refreshing summer dinner. It’s full of tasty ingredients and perfect for when it’s too hot to cook. Only 3.6g net carbs for the salad and 0.1g net carbs per tablespoon of dressing.

You might also like this low carb strawberry caprese salad too!

We have been eating a lot of salmon this summer and I find that salads are one of the best ways to use leftovers. Today I made for you a goat cheese and salmon salad with a sugar free raspberry vinaigrette with leftover salmon.

It’s light but filling and fully of tasty ingredients like goat cheese, roasted pepita (pumpkin kernel) seeds, sweet peppers, basil and topped with a tangy and sweet raspberry vinaigrette. The dressing has only 0.1g net carbs per tablespoon and the salad has 3.6g net carbs so it’s a tasty keto summer dinner.

Ingredients I Used In This Salmon Salad

For this salad I used a base of romaine lettuce, red onions, sweet peppers and basil. All of these ingredients pictured below I found at Aldi. Except I changed the mozzarella pearls for goat cheese.

I was originally going to for a raspberry caprese salad with salmon because I found these great mozzarella pearls at Aldi but they also had these cool goat cheese crumbled bits and felt they would have more taste than the mozzarella.

If you don’t like goat cheese, you can substitute, blue cheese, feta, asiago or even fresh mozzarella.

Making The Sugar Free Raspberry Vinaigrette

I wanted to use fresh raspberries because they are delicious and low in carbs. However I felt this dressing need more raspberry taste so I ended up add some raspberry extract.

Because the raspberries are tart it needed some sweetness so I used Swerve sweetener. If you have any Torani sugar free raspberry syrup, this would be a great sub for both the extract and sweetener.

To make the dressing just add everything to a blender or food processor and whiz until nice and smooth.

Putting It All Together

Since I am using leftover salmon, I didn’t need to cook it. If you need to cook your salmon, this post will show you how to pan fry salmon. Or you can bake the salmon too.

Just chop the vegetables and mix. Sprinkle the chopped basil and goat cheese crumbles and top with a piece of cooked salmon. Lastly spoon over as much dressing as you like. Easy peasy.

Other Low Carb Salad Ingredients To Try

As I mentioned above you can make a lot of different substitutions in this salad. Try these low carb salad ingredients:

• Other seeds like sunflower seeds for the pepitas.
• You can also use nuts instead like pecans, walnuts or slivered almonds.
• I used basil but cilantro, parsley or mint would all be good here.
• For the cheese try fresh mozzarella, blue cheese, feta, asiago, sharp cheddar, etc.
• Lastly use whatever vegetables and lettuce you like. I find thinly sliced red onion and sweet peppers always add a nice touch and lots of color. Radishes are also quite good and low carb.

Recipe Tips & Notes

• This is a great way to make a summer dinner with leftover salmon. You can also use canned salmon if you want.
• Feel free to try different cheeses, vegetables and nuts or seeds in this salad. See above for suggestions.
• I felt the dressing needed more raspberry flavor so I added extract. If you have any Torani sugar free raspberry syrup it would be a great substitute for the extract and the sweetener. If you don’t have the extract or syrup, it will still be good so no worries.

Well this is a quick and easy low carb dinner idea for you. There are so many ways you can change this up but it will be a tasty and filling summer dinner so give it a try if you can.

The nutritional information for 1 salad is:
225 cals / 11.1g fat / 7.4g carbs / 3.8g fiber / 28.2g protein = 3.6g net carbs

The nutritional information for 1 tablespoon of dressing is:
61 cals / 6.7g fat / 0.5g carbs / 0.4g fiber = 0.1g net carbs

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Low Carb Goat Cheese & Salmon Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

Yield: 2

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

This low carb goat cheese and salmon salad is great for a low carb summer salad using leftover salmon. The sugar free raspberry vinaigrette is sweet yet tart and tastes great with the goat cheese and salmon.

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Ingredients

• 4 cup romaine lettuce, chopped
• ¼ cup sliced sweet peppers
• ¼ cup thinly sliced red onions
• 2 tablespoons roasted pepita seeds
• ¼ cup goat cheese, crumbled
• 2 tablespoons basil leaves, chopped
• 2 (3 oz) salmon filets, cooked

Raspberry Vinaigrette

• ¼ cup fresh raspberries
• ½ olive oil
• ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
• ½ teaspoon raspberry extract
• 2 teaspoons Swerve sweetener
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ⅛ teaspoon pepper

Instructions

1. Chop the vegetables and lettuce and place in two big bowls.
2. Sprinkle the goat cheese and chopped basil and then top with the cooked salmon filets.
3. In a food processor add all of the ingredients for raspberry vinaigrette. Pulse until well combined.
4. Spoon over the salmon salad.
5. See notes for recipe tips and substitutions.

Notes

RECIPE TIPS & NOTES

• This is a great way to make a summer dinner with leftover salmon. You can also use canned salmon if you want.
• Feel free to try different cheeses, vegetables and nuts or seeds in this salad. See above for suggestions.
• I felt the dressing needed more raspberry flavor so I added extract. If you have any Torani sugar free raspberry syrup it would be a great substitute for the extract and the sweetener. If you don’t have the extract or syrup, it will still be good so no worries.

The nutritional information for 1 salad is:
225 cals / 11.1g fat / 7.4g carbs / 3.8g fiber / 28.2g protein = 3.6g net carbs

The nutritional information for 1 tablespoon of dressing is:
61 cals / 6.7g fat / 0.5g carbs / 0.4g fiber = 0.1g net carbs

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  Nature's Garden Organic Dry Roasted Shelled Pepitas Unsalted - 5 oz.
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  Bragg USDA Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar, With The Mother 16 Ounces Natural Cleanser, Promotes Weight Loss - Pack of 2 w/ Measuring Spoon
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  Swerve Sweetener, Confectioners, 12 oz
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  Frontier Co-op Raspberry Flavor, Non-Alcoholic, 2 ounce bottle
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  Torani Sugar Free Raspberry Syrup (750 mL /25.4 oz)

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 225