The key to this salad is chopping all of the ingredients into really fine pieces, making them easier to scoop up onto a tortilla chip of your choice.
To make this salad, you only need a few simple produce ingredients. The base of the salad is iceberg lettuce, cucumbers, green onions, and chives. Dice all of these up really small, and adjust the quantities based on how much salad you're intending to make.
Once you've finely diced your veggies, you can then make the dressing. Combine a few garlic cloves (adjust this to your taste), a small shallot (you can sub for red or regular onion if you can't find a shallot), chives, basil leaves, nutritional yeast, one cup of spinach, lemon juice, and a quarter cup of both walnuts and olive oil.
Blend these ingredients together using a blender or a food processor before adding it to your base, coating all of the vegetables in it.
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TikTokers have provided their various takes on this salad, though many of the adjustments are minor compared to the original recipe. Some users decided to sub out the iceberg lettuce for cabbage, offering more variety and a bit more nutritional value.
It also seems that you can really use whatever nuts you have on hand or prefer in the recipe, as they're mostly used to thicken the dressing rather than as a taste enhancer.
You can also use whatever tortilla chips you desire: if you prefer blue corn chips, they'll pair well with this salad. However, if you decide to go the traditional route, you'll be just as satisfied.
This salad has earned its popularity on TikTok over the past few months as more users test out the salad. While it's not as filling as some of the other viral recipes online, it's a great way to include more vegetables in your diet!