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What is there not to love about fresh and beautiful salad? This Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Recipe is super easy to make and is such an attractive addition to your table.
It offers not only a beautiful display of color on your table but adds a variety of flavors and nutrition, which tends to decline during the fall and winter seasons. So be sure to make this salad for upcoming Thanksgiving or Christmas and eat healthy during the holiday season too! 😉
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- 📋 Recipe Ingredients
- 🔪 Recipe Instructions
- Recipe Card
- Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Recipe
- 🥗 Similar Recipes
- Comments
📋 Recipe Ingredients
- Large pomegranate
- Jonagold or Honeycrisp apples
- Bartlett pears
- Organic baby spinach
- Pecans
- Dried cranberries
- Smoked Bartlett cheese
Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette Ingredients
- Extra light Olive oil
- Organic apple cider vinegar
- Raw honey
- Sea salt
🔪 Recipe Instructions
How to Make Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad
First thing first, rinse all the fruits. De-seed pomegranate. Cube pears, apples, and cheese. Arrange the salad by placing spinach into a large bowl. Layout cubed apples, pears, and cheese. Then add cranberries, toasted pecans, and pomegranate seeds on top of the spinach.
Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette Instructions for the Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad
Next, into a small glass bowl combine olive oil, apple cider vinegar, raw honey, and salt. Stir the ingredients together with a hand whisker to combine.
Finally, pour the Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette over the salad.
Mix the salad gently with salad hands and serve right away.
Also, if making the salad ahead of time you will need to soak apples and pears in the lemon marinade before adding them to the salad, this will prevent them from darkening.
How to make Lemon Marinade
¼ cup water, 1 tbsp. organic sugar, and juice from 1 large lemon. Mix all the ingredients together. Then toss and soak apples and pears for 5 minutes).
NOTE: The salad can be prepared a couple of hours before serving. Cover the salad bowl with a lid and keep it refrigerated until ready to serve. Cover Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette bowl with a lid and refrigerate as well.
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Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Recipe
Valya's Taste of Home
What is there not to love about this fresh and beautiful Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Recipe? This salad is so easy to make and is such an attractive addition to your table. It offers not only a beautiful display of a color on your table but adds a variety of flavors and nutrition, which tends to decline during the winter season. So be sure to make this salad for upcoming Thanksgiving or Christmas and eat healthy during the holiday season too! 😉
5 from 4 votes
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 15 minutes mins
Servings 12
Ingredients
Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Ingredients
- 1 - large pomegranate
- 2 - Jonagold or Honey crisp apples
- 2 - Bartlett pears
- ½ lb. (227 g) - organic spinach
- ½ cup (65 g) - toasted pecans
- ½ cup (60 g) - dried cranberries
- 6 oz. (170 g) - smoked cheese
Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette for the Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad
- ¼ cup (59 ml) - extra light olive oil
- ⅓ cup (79 ml) - organic apple cider vinegar
- ¼ cup (59 ml) - raw honey
- ⅛ tsp. - sea salt
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Instructions
Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad Instructions
First thing first, rinse all the fruits. De-seed pomegranate. Cube pears, apples, and cheese. Arrange the salad by placing spinach into a large bowl. Layout cubed apples, pears, and cheese. Then add cranberries, toasted pecans, and pomegranate seeds on top of the spinach.
Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette Instructions for the Pear Apple Pomegranate Pecan Spinach Salad
Next, into a small glass bowl combine olive oil, apple cider vinegar, raw honey, and salt. Stir the ingredients together with a hand whisker to combine.
Finally, pour the Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette over the salad.
Mix the salad gently with salad hands and serve right away.
Notes
The salad can be prepared a couple of hours before serving. Cover the salad bowl with a lid and keep it refrigerated until ready to serve. Cover Honey Apple Cider Vinaigrette bowl with a lid and refrigerate as well. Also, if making the salad ahead of time you will need to soak apples and pears in the lemon marinade before adding them to the salad, this will prevent them from darkening.
How to make Lemon Marinade:
¼ cup water, 1 tbsp. organic sugar, and juice from 1 large lemon.
Mix all the ingredients together. Then toss and soak apples and pears for 5 minutes).
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Comments
Debbie says
Such a beautiful and delicious salad! I will make sure to include that on my holiday menu. Thank you for the recipe!Reply
Valya of Valya's Taste of Home says
Thank you for the kind words! You will love! 🙂
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Inna says
Healthy and delicious!Thank you!Reply
www.valyastasteofhome.com says
I'm ? with you! Love this salad as well. Thank you for your feedback! ?
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Tonya B says
Love the colors! Will be making this for Thanksgiving. Thanks for the ideas!Reply
www.valyastasteofhome.com says
You are very welcome Tonya, enjoy! Happy upcoming holidays to you!:)
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Lana says
Wow, love all the autumn colors and that action picture is adorable! Thanks for sharing your recipes ?Reply
www.valyastasteofhome.com says
Thank you, for kind words Lana! Enjoy! 😉
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