Mandarin Orange Salad + Quick Meals from Marie Callender’s makes weeknight dinners fun, healthy and delicious …and all for a good cause! Read on and I’ll explain!
Lookie, lookie what I have. Some times I like a simple dinner. Truth is, I add a fresh salad to a Marie Callender’s frozen meal on the regular during busy school nights.
I love when I can use short-cut products for family meals. I grab a Marie Callender’s frozen meal and add a fresh salad to balance it out. By doing this I save a ton of time in the kitchen and still provide a delicious meal for my family. My Three Meat & Four Cheese Lasagna took 13 minutes to cook in the microwave. While it was cooking, I made this tasty Mandarin Orange Salad.
I used baby kale, but any salad green would work in this salad. For the salad, you’ll simply drain the oranges and toast the ramen noodles. You can do this easily during the time the lasagna is cooking.
There are only four ingredients in the salad dressing. You can mix it and shake it all in a jar, making for a quick and easy dressing.
This meal is so easy with great flavor combos. I find it impossible to get tired of lasagna, seriously could eat it every day! The bright citrus salad brings it all together.
- 6 cups baby kale baby spinach or other salad greens
- 1 11 ounce can mandarin oranges, drained
- 1/4 cup slice almonds
- 1 3 ounce package ramen noodles (discard spice pack)
- 2 tablespoon butterDressing
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon soy sauce
- Heat a pan to med-high and melt butter.
- Add ramen noodles and almonds and toast.
- Add greens to a large bowl, along with the oranges, almonds and noodles.
- Add dressing and serve.Dressing
- To a jar, add dressing ingredients.
- Secure lid and shake vigorously until well combined. Serve on salad.
Refrigerate any leftover dressing. ©CallMePMc.com All images & content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to republish this recipe, please re-write the recipe in your own words, or link back to this post for the recipe.
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Carrie Robinson says
I just love using shortcuts in the kitchen sometimes. I mean, there are evenings when you just don’t have the time to prepare a meal from scratch. This is such a great idea to pair a fresh salad with a Marie Callendar’s lasagna! 🙂 And what a great cause they are helping to support!
Paula says
The was I see it, it’s better than take out, cheaper too!