❤️ Why You’ll Love Christmas Salads
Easy: I may love good food but I don’t believe you need to spend hours in the kitchen to make it, you’ll see from these recipes just how easy it is to pull together a delicious salad Healthy: Full of nutritious ingredients that are in season, these salad recipes are oh-so-good for you Versatile: With a salad, they’re incredibly easy to adjust and swap out ingredients to use what you have and make them your own
🍲 Ingredients
Cranberries – Cranberries have to be the most well-known berry during the holiday season. They’re not only in-season during the winter months, but they’re also versatile and delicious. You can bake with them, or cook with them. I like to use Cape Cod Select Cranberries. They sell both fresh and frozen, premium cranberries and they’re so good in recipes. They use no additives, they are sustainably farmed, and pack a punch of flavor for your cooking (or baking) Fennel – Fennel is not a flavor for everyone, but I think it compliments this Christmas salad so well. It is part of the carrot family and adds a mild anise or licorice flavor. If you don’t like fennel, you can swap it for celery, but I promise, it combines so well with the walnut cranberry crumble in this delicious orzo salad recipe
👩🍳 How to Make Christmas Salads Like This One
For the cranberry walnut crumble
For the dressing
For the salad
🪄 Tips and Tricks
Winter Vegetables: If you’re making a Christmas salad, some veggies that you may want to include in the mix are root vegetables like carrots or beets, and things like brussel sprouts, kale, or sweet potatoes Winter Seasoning: For holiday salads, consider incorporating flavors like cinnamon, anise, cloves, oregano, thyme, and rosemary into your dressings or salads Winter Toppings: For Christmas salads, you can add things like roasted nuts or seeds, or creamy goat cheese on top of your salad recipe
🗒 Substitutions
Here are some easy substitutes you can make to my below Orzo Salad recipe with Cranberry Walnut Crumble:
Nuts: You can make this recipe nut-free, but your crumble won’t really have that crumble consistency and crunch Cheese: You can swap the feta cheese out of this recipe to make it vegan, or swap it for goat cheese or blue cheese if that’s what you prefer Spinach: Swap the spinach for kale in this recipe if that’s what you have on hand
🥗 Other Christmas Salads You’ll Love
Winter Chopped Salad Roasted Beet Salad with Pistachios & Feta Warm Kale Salad with Lemon Thyme Dressing Fig, Walnut & Fried Avocado Salad Butter Lettuce with Apple & Cheddar Cornbread Salad Warm Kale Quinoa Salad Warming Caesar Salad with a Twist
👝 How to Store Leftovers
Like any salad, it’s always best to make it fresh. However, if you want to make this salad ahead of time, you can totally keep a few things separate. Make the crumble, make the dressing, and make the salad, and keep all three separate until you’re ready to serve, then mix it all together.
🤔 Common Questions
