Meg’s Winter Green Salad Recipe
Just in time for winter and holiday entertaining, we can’t get enough of Meg’s Winter Green Salad. This salad recipe is bright, crunchy, healthy, and packed with flavor. Think fall and winter, and add chopped apples, cranberries, pecans, and plenty of veggies!
Every time our friends Meg and Gary come for dinner, they always ask what they can bring. Of course, it’s a simple answer now: Meg’s Winter Green Salad. A winter green salad with pears is also our favorite, but we also love crisp apples!
Meg’s Winter Green Salad
I love a good winter salad. You can serve arugula with pears, or spinach with bacon (a good Spinach Cobb salad). We also love a salad with mandarin oranges (you can keep stocked in the pantry).
Meg always brings the ingredient to our house and assembles it right in our kitchen!
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Why I love this recipe
- It uses tons of winter seasonal fruit and veeggies.
- We also love this salad in the summer or actually for any season.
- It makes a great dinner party salad/
- You can make this in our epic salad bowls!
Gather these ingredients
- Fresh greens
- Celery
- Carrots
- Tomatoes
- Delicious crisp diced apples
- Dried cranberries
- Cucumber
- Sunflower seeds
- Avocados are a must!
- Pecans are always optional, but great for the holidays!
How do you make a winter green salad?
- In a large bowl add the lettuce.
- Layer the rest of the ingredients, ending with avocado, pecans (optional), and serving salad dressing on the side.
Tips and substitutions
- Swap out the salad greens for baby spinach.
- Use any season fruit; Winter: pears, figs, oranges, and apples). For summer: berries and peaches!
- Don’t add the avocado until ready to serve. It gets brown.
- You can make our walnut dressing that we love, or you can buy store-bought.
- We love to buy the spicy pecans or the candied pecans at Trader Joe’s, or you can make your own, or just toast them before chopping.
- Don’t toss the salad until right before serving, or you can serve dressing on the side.
- Double the recipe for a large dinner party! Serve in our EPIC SALAD BOWLS.
How to serve a Winter Green Salad
The toppings are so delish on this salad, I say serve it with a poppyseed or light vinaigrette, or even a balsamic dressing. Here’s another one of my favorite salads, Ali’s Everyday Salad Recipe, or one of my anytime of year salads: Mandarin Mixed Greens Salad Recipe.
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Meg’s Winter Green Salad
Ingredients
- 8 cups fresh greens, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- ⅓ cup Shredded carrots
- 1 pint Cherry tomatoes
- 2 honey crisp apples, diced
- ½ dried cranberries
- 1 small cucumber, diced
- ⅓ cup sunflower seeds
- 2 avocados
- ½ Spicy pecans, chopped, optional
- 1 cup Poppyseed dressing, or a light vinaigrette or a balsamic dressing, or your favorite dressing
Instructions
- In a large bowl add the lettuce.
- Layer the rest of the ingredients, ending with avocado, pecans (optional), and serving salad dressing on the side.
- Optional to toss the dressing into the salad before serving.
Notes
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I see cherry tomatoes in the picture, but not in the ingredient list.
Oops! It’s added. Thanks Marilyn!
Really liked this salad. My husband and I are doing the Keto diet so had to leave out the cranberries. I only added one apple and used pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower. Made my own keto poppyseed dressing. Will make again!!