Name: Simple Cranberry Spinach Salad
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1 (6 ounce) package fresh spinach; ⅓ cup dried cranberries; ⅓ cup chopped walnuts; ⅓ cup raspberry walnut vinaigrette; 1 tablespoon finely shredded Romano cheese

This is a simple salad that can be made in minutes. It works well at Thanksgiving or anytime you're just looking for something a little different.

Simple Cranberry Spinach Salad

spinach

cranberries

walnuts

raspberry walnut vinaigrette

Romano cheese

Combine the spinach, cranberries, walnuts, vinaigrette, and Romano cheese in a large bowl; toss until spinach is evenly coated. Serve immediately.


Simple and delicious! Plus, it's good for you too! I toasted my walnuts added some thin sliced red onion and Granny Smith apple slices. I subbed feta for the Romano and used "Easy Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing" from this site. Perfect for a light lunch!

I used almonds and crasins instead of walnuts and cranberries. I really enjoyed it. I did not feel like I was starving myself. 

Thanks for a quick &amp; easy winner! I used a 50/50 baby spinach/mixed greens salad blend and Paul Newman's Lite Rasp-Walnut Vinaigrette dressing. The colors were festive &amp; the flavors were great. I always toast my nuts &amp; would suggest doing so for improved flavor. This was big hit at Thanksgiving &amp; a nice change from all the usual heavy hot veggies. I got a lot of compliments on it &amp; will definately be making this again. Thanks for sharing it!

Very good.  My favorite spinach salad.  Next time I will add chopped apples.

Made for Thanksgiving 2008....very tasty; simple to prepare

Super awesome salad! My fiance and I were a little skeptical going into it, but after the first bite we were hooked and ended up finishing off the whole bowl of salad before starting on the rest of dinner. I was unable to find just dried cranberries so instead used a mix of dried cranberries, blueberries, and cherries, and this just added to the wonderful flavorful taste of the salad.

Easy, flavorful, and nutritious.  What more could you ask for?  I love adding nuts and dried fruit to spinach salads, it really perks them up.  I've also used sunflower seeds instead and it is also delicous.

Great recipe.  Simple, yet flavorful.  I use a similar version where I add dates (pitted) and croutons.  It was a hit at Christmas!

What a great, simple recipe.  I was looking for a spinach recipe to use up the "pillow" of spinach I bought at Costco!  I already had the dried cranberries and raspberry walnut dressing on hand. I was hesitant to use the cheese; however, itwas very good with it  The only change I made was to sprinkle some additional strawberry balsamic vinegar over it.

GREAT salad!   Hubby says this is one of the best.  It is so basic and easy to change up.  I grated extra sharp white cheddar for the cheese.  Next time I plan on adding mandarin oranges, pineapple or another fruit.  It is so good!  Thank you Bethanie for sharing your recipe.

This is the best salad I ever had and it went well with my grilled apple rub salmon.

I had a lot of spincach to use up and tried this recipe. Glad I did-will definitely make again and again as we really like spinach. Thank you for a great recipe

Very simple...easy to change it up a bit too. I used yogurt covered cranberries, Parmesan cheese and it was still great!

We liked it but might add a little more walnuts next time.

Used Ken's Low Fat Raspberry Pecan dressing, walnuts, dried cranberries and grated Romano/Parmesan. It was simple and delicious. Even my non-spinach eating son liked it!

I added roasted almonds and arugula to it and it was fantastic.

Simple but superb.
Used the simple raspberry vinaigrette recipe on the site. 
Substituted feta chunks and instead of cranberries, I took the simple route and used craisins, which worked out great.

Perfect healthy salad. I added a little more of all the topping ingredients so every serving would have a lot of goodies on top!

I loved the simplicity of this salad. It was perfect for a dinner party. A word of caution though....I used spinach and romaine (because I like the crunch of romaine). The romaine turned a reddish color from the dressing which was not very appealing to the eye. It still tasted delicious though and i will make again without the romaine.

Great recipe! Made this on Easter Sunday and everyone loved it!

Simple Cranberry Spinach Salad

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total: 5 minutes

Servings: 4

Author : Bethanie Rose

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