Hello everybody! Today on the menu is a healthy food – Cranberry Pecan Spinach Salad recipe rich with apples and cheese. A delightful blend of different flavors in one bowl.
Cranberry Pecan Spinach Salad
This salad is enriched with nuts and seeds which makes it a true vitamin bomb. Enjoy its unusual and interesting taste and after the meal you will feel better and you`ll get an extra energy. It is because fresh spinach is rich in iron.
After our most popular salad recipes Strawberry Spinach Almond Salad I decided to make a fall version – Cranberry Pecan Spinach Salad. This is a great way to enrich your table at this time of year and to enjoy healthy and tasty food.
Mandarin orange, poppy and chia seeds dressing gives it a special taste. You can play with the ingredients and make different combinations. I decided to try this one, but expect some more combinations coming from me, soon. It can be served as a side dish, or a complete meal.
How to make these delightful Salad?
- MAKE THE DRESSING: Squeeze two mandarin oranges and pour the juice into a medium dish. Add extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, honey, poppy seeds and chia seeds. Then add a pinch of salt, paprika and pepper. Mix well and set aside.
- MAKE THE SALAD: Slice both an apple and a pear. Put spinach and arugula, sliced apple and pear, pecans and cranberries.
- Step 3 Put the dressing over the salad and mix well. Put crumbled feta cheese over it.
NOTES: Serve fresh
Refreshing Cranberry Pecan Spinach Salad so tasty and delicious. Healthy food, perfect for these cold and rainy days. A picture is worth a thousand words 🙂
Cranberry Pecan Spinach Salad
Hello everybody! It is healthy food on menu today - Cranberry Pecan Spinach Salad recipe rich with apples and cheese. A delightful blend of different flavors in one bowl.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Arugula
- 4 ounces fresh Baby spinach
- 1/2 cup dried Cranberries
- 1/2 cup Pecans
- 1 Granny Smith Apple
- 1 Pear
- 1/3 cup crumbled Feta Cheese
- DRESSING:
- 4 tbsp Honey or maple syrup
- 4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 2 mandarin oranges
- 1 tsp poppy seed
- 2 tsp chia seed
- Pinch of Salt
- Pinch of Paprika
- Pinch of black pepper
Instructions
- Step 1 MAKE THE DRESSING: Squeeze two mandarin oranges and pour the juice into a medium dish. Add extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, honey, poppy seeds and chia seeds. Then add a pinch of salt, paprika and pepper. Mix well and set aside.
- Step 2 MAKE THE SALAD: Slice both an apple and a pear. Put spinach and arugula, sliced apple and pear, pecans and cranberries.
- Step 3 Put the dressing over the salad and mix well. Put crumbled feta cheese over it.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Serve fresh
Lois Sanders
Wednesday 2nd of December 2020
I made this salad recently for a dinner party. Easy to prepare and it was the best salad I have ever tasted. Everyone raved over it and asked for the recipe. Thank you. BTW I didn't have mandarin but I did have a naval orange. I can't wait to make this salad again!
Dragana
Wednesday 2nd of December 2020
Thank you, Lois. I'm so glad that you liked it.
Best regards, Dragana