How To Make Pear Spinach Salad with Vinaigrette
Serve a delicious Pear Spinach Salad with Cranberry-Orange Vinaigrette in this recipe! Make holidays better with this salad’s tart and tangy flavors.
Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking:
Total: 20 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
For Vinaigrette:
- ½cupolive oil
- ⅓cupfresh cranberries
- 1tsporange zestdivided
- 2tbsporange juicefresh
- 1tbsphoney
- 1tbspgranulated sugar
- 2tspDijon mustard
- ½tspsalt
For Salad:
- 5ozbaby spinach
- 2bartlett pearssemi-firm but ripe, cored and sliced
- ¾cuppomegranate arilsor ½ cup dried cranberries
- ¾cuppecanschopped
- ⅓cupgoat cheesecrumbled (optional)
Instructions
Vinaigrette:
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Add all of the vinaigrette ingredients to a food processor, starting with 1/2 teaspoon of orange zest, adding more to taste as you go.
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Pulse until the cranberries have been pureed into the dressing.
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Transfer to a jar, then cover and chill until ready to use.
Salad:
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Layer salad ingredients into a bowl. Drizzle desired amount of dressing over the top.
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Serve immediately and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 3330.82kcal
- Fat: 327.63g
- Saturated Fat: 62.42g
- Trans Fat: 0.00g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 206.86g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 45.28g
- Carbohydrates: 75.58g
- Fiber: 24.10g
- Sugar: 43.70g
- Protein: 46.78g
- Cholesterol: 82.80mg
- Sodium: 2041.16mg
- Calcium: 381.77mg
- Potassium: 1169.49mg
- Iron: 8.76mg
- Vitamin A: 636.76µg
- Vitamin C: 45.91mg
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