A festive flavorful Spinach Salad! With these pretty ruby-red and dark-green colors this is the perfect salad to serve for a Christmas party. It has the perfect blend of sweetness, savory, toasted season and crunchy goodness. You’ll dearest every concluding bite of it!
Easy Spinach Salad with Cranberries and Almonds
This salad is a breeze to brand together with the exclusively chopping required is for the shallot, gotta love that!
Fresh spinach is layered with chewy dried cranberries, crisp sliced almonds, in addition to a sugariness too uncomplicated toasted sesame seed vinaigrette.
Ingredients inwards This Salad
- Baby spinach
- Sliced almonds
- Dried cranberries
- White vino vinegar and apple tree cider vinegar
- White sugar
- Honey
- Olive oil
- Shallot
- Sesame seeds
Buy Pre-Toasted Sesame Seeds to Save Time
For this recipe y'all can role either store bought toasted sesame seeds or you lot tin can toast upwards around white sesame seeds yourself.
I toasted my own only I’thousand sure I didn’t become them aureate plenty. I tried to toast the almonds as well as sesame seeds at the same time too the almonds browned quicker surprisingly, and so lesson learned.
Next fourth dimension I’ll toast the almonds inwards the oven on the cookie canvas so the sesame seeds simply in a skillet.
Either fashion it was still completely delicious, summation amongst how slowly it was to brand I’k certain this volition making plenty of appearances on my dinner table!
I also didn’t add poppy seeds this fourth dimension about, side by side time I’ll add together them and see which way I similar it meliorate. I’thousand certain it would even be skilful with just poppy seeds together with no sesame seeds.
That’s the beauty of making a salad, they’re so versatile together with in that location’second always room to switch things upwards.
More Delicious Salads to Try!
- Apple Kale Quinoa Salad
- Salad de Mason
- Pear Pomegranate in addition to Spinach Salad
- Butternut Squash in addition to Bacon Kale Salad
- Strawberry Spinach Salad
Cranberry Almond Spinach Salad
Ingredients
Salad
- 16 oz infant spinach
- i cup sliced almonds, toasted
- i loving cup dried cranberries
Sesame Seed Dressing
- one/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 2 Tbsp apple tree cider vinegar
- iii Tbsp white sugar
- i/ii cup olive oil
- 3 Tbsp honey
- 1 Tbsp finely minced shallot
- ii Tbsp sesame seeds , toasted
- one Tbsp poppy seeds (optional)
Instructions
- For the dressing: In a bowl or jounce whisk together white vino vinegar, apple cider vinegar together with sugar until the carbohydrate has dissolved.
- Stir in olive fossil oil, dearest, shallot, sesame seeds as well as optional poppy seeds until mixture is well blended.
- For the salad: Add spinach, almonds in addition to cranberries to a salad bowl. Drizzle dressing over salad as well as toss. Serve right away afterward adding dressing.
Notes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 344
Calories from Fat 216
% Daily Value*