Harvest Fall Salad Recipe
Enjoy a Harvest Fall Salad Recipe made with crisp lettuce, crunchy apples, cheese, and fall-ish figs, pomegranate, and pumpkin seeds! Serve with a tangy balsamic dressing!
This salad is a celebration of the transition of summer to fall. The crisp crunch of lettuce, cucumber, apple and tender mozzarella are reminiscent of fresh summer produce, while the flavors of bitter radicchio, honey salted figs, sour pomegranate, and pumpkin seeds walk your palate into autumn.
Harvest Fall Salad Recipe
Oh my, this is one of the best salad recipes for Fall. And the giant salad bowl? You can buy it, here.
So delicious with your favorite salad dressing, or you can make our balsamic dressing (recipe below). You may also want to try this Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad for this holiday season!
Harvest Fall Salad Recipe ingredients:
- Honey to drizzle
- Salt to season
- Red leaf lettuce
- Radicchio
- Persian cucumber
- Mozzarella cheese (log)
- Honey crisp apple
- Figs
- Pomegranate seeds
- Roasted, salted pumpkin seeds
Tangy Balsamic Dressing
- honey
- dijon mustard
- Kosher salt
- freshly crushed black pepper
- garlic clove minced
- balsamic vinegar
- virgin olive oil
Buy the salad bowl
We love this XL Mango Salad Bowl. I seriously use it almost daily in my kitchen, even when just making a salad for 2. It’s fabulous and cleans up so nicely. We’ve sold so many now, so grab yours while it’s available.
What is an autumn salad?
Harvest Fall Salad Recipe is all of your fall favorite salad ingredients coming together in a giant bowl. Crisp chopped apples, cucumbers, figs, pumpkin seeds, cheese, and , pomegranate seeds!
How to prepare the figs
Drizzle your figs with honey and sprinkle with salt. Set aside.
Here are a few homemade salad dressings we love – Lemon Balsamic Dressing Recipe and My Favorite Strawberry Spinach Salad red onion dressing. You can also grab a few grocery store favorites: My favorite brand to keep stocked in the pantry is Briannas.
Last week we hiked and and rode bikes with friends, adding a few pumpkins to the porch, and sat out on our front deck. It was pleasantly warm and beautiful during the afternoons (but chilly in the mountains).
If you’re looking for more fall and winter salads, here are a few of our favorites:
Waldorf Brussels Sprouts Salad
Meg’s Winter Salad
Wild Rice and Cranberry Salad
Or serve this Instant Pot Mango Chicken Chili with this giant salad.
It’s the prefect fall-time meal.
Get the Recipe:
Harvest Fall Salad Recipe (with tangy Balsamic dressing)
Ingredients
- 4-6 green figs, halved
- 1 Tbsp honey to drizzle
- Salt to season
- 2 heads red leaf lettuce, washed, spun, cut into large 2-3” pieces
- ½ head radicchio, roughly chopped
- 1 small Persian cucumber, sliced 1/4-1/2” thick
- 5 1 oz slices mozzarella, torn
- 1 honey crisp apple, seeded and sliced
- 2 Tbsp pomegranate seeds
- ¼ c roasted salted pumpkin seeds
Balsamic dressing:
- 2 Tbsp honey
- 1 Tbsp dijon mustard
- ½ tsp Kosher salt
- ½ tsp fresh crushed black pepper
- 1 large garlic clove, crushed
- ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
- ¾ cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Drizzle your figs with honey and sprinkle with salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, toss together the lettuce and radicchio, cucumber, mozzarella, apples, seasoned figs, pomegranate seeds, and pumpkin seeds.
Make the dressing:
- Add all the dressing ingredients together in a medium bowl and whisk together. You can store in a jar in the fridge.
Serving:
- When ready to serve, drizzle the dressing over the salad; toss and serve.
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