This festive Vacation Spinach Salad options apples, pomegranate arils, feta, and candied pecans with a lightweight apple French dressing. Contemporary, colourful, and excellent for any vacation meal!
Why You’ll Love This Colourful, Fruity Salad
This Vacation Spinach Salad is the right burst of freshness to steadiness all of the wealthy, cozy dishes of the season. Vibrant inexperienced spinach, crisp apples, salty feta, and beautiful ruby pomegranate arils come collectively in a bowl that appears simply as festive because it tastes. It’s stunning on the desk, simple to throw collectively, and pairs properly with nearly any vacation entrée—from ham and turkey to roasted hen and even pasta dishes.
The candied pecans add a candy, crunchy distinction (and preserve choosy eaters pleased!), whereas a fruity French dressing ties every little thing collectively. An apple cider–based mostly dressing works particularly properly, although any mild, fruit-forward French dressing is gorgeous. Better of all? This salad takes simply minutes to organize, making it a dependable and crowd-pleasing facet for busy vacation cooking days.
Substitutions & Variations:
Fruit Choices
- Swap apples for pears
- Add dried cranberries or golden raisins
- Use mandarin oranges for a citrusy model
Greens
- Child kale
- Spring combine
- Half spinach + half arugula for peppery chew
Cheese
- Goat cheese
- Blue cheese crumbles
- Shaved Parmesan
Nuts
- Walnuts (candied or toasted)
- Almonds
- Pistachios for a green-on-green vacation vibe
Dressing Choices
Works fantastically with:
- Apple cider French dressing
- Pomegranate French dressing
- Cranberry French dressing
- Honey-mustard French dressing
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Vacation Spinach Salad
A recent, colourful, and festive salad with crisp apples, ruby-red pomegranate arils, salty feta, and candy candied pecans—all tossed in a fruity French dressing.
Servings: 4
- 4 cups recent spinach leaves washed
- 3/4 cup pomegranate arils
- 1/2 cup apple chopped
- 1/4 cup feta cheese
- 1/4 cup candied pecans
- apple cider honey dressing or French dressing of your selection
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Mix spinach, pomegranate arils, chopped apple, feta, and candied pecans in a big bowl.
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Toss flippantly to combine the elements evenly.
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Gown together with your favourite fruity French dressing proper earlier than serving to maintain the spinach crisp.