Almost-Famous Garden Salad

Name: Almost-Famous Garden Salad
Cook time: P0Y0M0DT0H15M0.000S
Total time: P0Y0M0DT0H15M0.000S
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar; 3 tablespoons Miracle Whip; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese; 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt; 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning; 1 10-ounce bag American salad blend; 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced; 4 small pickled peppers, such as pepperoncini; 1 small vine-ripened tomato, quartered; 2 tablespoons sliced black olives; 1/2 cup large croutons; 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese

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Level: Easy

Total: 15 min
Active: 15 min

Yield: 4 servings

About 150 million people will sit down for dinner at an Olive Garden this year, and here’s guessing that 149.9 million of them will gorge on all-you-can-eat salad and breadsticks before any of the food they actually ordered shows up. The stuff is addictive, which explains why so many of you wrote in asking for the recipe. We couldn’t get the tight-lipped staff at Olive Garden’s Orlando, FL, headquarters to give up their secret to Nancy Kahm from Omaha, Kristin Collier from Baltimore and everyone else who wrote. But we did the next best thing: Food Network Kitchens ordered a big batch of salad and breadsticks to go, then developed these tasty copies just for you.