Giada De Laurentiis’ Colorful Salad Recipe Is the Perfect Healthy Fourth of July Appetizer

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What are your Fourth of July plans this year? Grilling and drinking hard seltzer while you lounge by the pool? Us, too. And with the holiday weekend here in a matter of days, you may have your menu all planned out, but we bet you’re missing one very important dish: salad. Yes, really, a salad! Between the chips and dip, hot dogs and burgers, heavy side dishes, and red, white and blue desserts, a light, flavorful salad is just what your holiday weekend needs. And like clockwork, Giada De Laurentiis shared just that on her Instagram.

On July 1, De Laurentiis shared a photo of her colorful appetizer to her page @thegiadzy with the caption reading, “We love a salad that’s loaded up with goodies, and this Red, White and Blue Salad is definitely fits the bill! With lightly pickled cucumbers, grapes, blueberries, pistachios and gorgonzola cheese, it’s got a ton of amazing flavor going on.”

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De Laurentiis’ red, white, and blue salad is as good as it looks. Loaded with bright, seasonal flavors like pickled cucumbers, grapes, and blueberries, as well as more savory bites like gorgonzola cheese, this salad — as De Laurentiis puts it — has a “ton of amazing flavor going on.”

Make sure to get those basic ingredients to make prep time a breeze like kosher salt, whole grain mustard, and Giadzy’s go-to Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Plus, let’s not forget the obvious: It has those red, white and blue hues the Fourth of July holiday calls for.

Check out De Laurentiis’ full Red, White and Blue Salad recipe HERE.