apple green salad

My favorite fresh salad featuring healthy greens, sliced apple, toasted pepitas, dried cranberries and crumbled goat cheese. Toss with my simple apple cider vinaigrette (recipe below) or use <a href="https://cookieandkate.com/how-to-make-vinaigrette-plus-variations/">balsamic dressing</a> in a pinch. Recipe yields 2 full-sized salads or 4 to 6 side salads.

Favorite Green Salad with Apples, Cranberries and Pepitas

(about 5 cups) spring greens salad blend

Granny Smith apple(s)

cranberries

pepitas (green pumpkin seeds) pecans

goat cheese, crumbled (about 1/3 cup)

olive oil

apple cider vinegar

honey

Dijon mustard

fine sea salt

black pepper,

Toast the pepitas: In a medium-sized skillet, toast the pepitas over medium heat, stirring frequently, until they are turning golden on the edges and making little popping noises (if using pecans instead, warm them just until they are fragrant). Transfer the pepitas to a small bowl to cool.

Make the dressing: In a cup or jar, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, honey, mustard and salt until well blended. Season to taste with pepper.

Just before serving, chop the apple into thin, bite-sized pieces. Place your greens in a large serving bowl. Top with sliced apple, dried cranberries and toasted pepitas. Use a fork to crumble the goat cheese over the salad.

Drizzle the salad with just enough dressing to lightly coat the leaves once tossed (you probably won&#8217;t need all of it). Gently toss to mix all of the ingredients and serve!

This is exactly the type of meal I've been craving the last week- light, simple, fresh -- beautiful salad!

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I love fall and winter salads like yours, they are healthy , easy to prepare and you can add whatever you have or like. Thank you

Made this for a potluck last night. Added roasted delicata squash. It was a huge hit. Great flavors and colors. Thanks so much for another great recipe.

I had this salad for lunch today with quinoa and honey goat cheese. It was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!

Have been meaning to comment on your website for a long time now to thank you! I have gone from a diet of basicalled meat and bad carbs to a now healthy and transitioning vegetarien with your help! I just made this salad and it is literally the first one I've ever completely enjoyed and finished off. Your recipes are simple, easy and make going Vego super painless as they resemble things I am used to eating. You've turned me into a healthy food lover and I cannot thank you enough :)

Made this a couple of days ago and I can't wait to make it again this week. Simple yet so tasty and refreshing. Yum!

I had never eaten kale before and last week I made this salad. Well, I could not believe how fantastic it is.  I didn't tell any of the family about it so that I could consume it all by myself over a couple of days.  As  a result, on this week's shopping trip, I bought double quantity and I know for sure this will become a staple "healthy" meal that would also be great for dinner parties etc. Might also put in Camzola instead of feta.  Very many thanks for sharing it.

I made this recipe and my husband said it was the best salad he has ever had :)  I used blue cheese instead of goat.  The best!!

I made this for Christmas eve dinner -- it was a delicious addition to our table.  It was my first time eating/cooking with pepitas -- yum! -- and used feta (couldn't justify buying goat cheese with the Costco-sized block of feta residing in my fridge), and the salad amazing!  It's my favorite green salad too.  Thanks again, Kate!

A favorite in our house, we eat this salad at least once a week!

Thank you for this recipe! I make it all the time! Love it sooooo much!

Great salad! I've never toasted pepitas like that before - they added great flavor.

I make this all the time, we love this salad, thanks for the recipe

Delicious salad! I’ve never toasted pepitas like that before. My son and husband liked it. They told me to make it everyday!. Thanks for sharing.

Tasty, healthy, simple, and vibrant! I made one small change. I care for a couple of goats who were rescued from being killed at a goat dairy, so no goat cheese for me. Instead I pan-seared some cubed tofu onto which I sprinkled some savory seasonings, and that worked very well as a topping. Trying your kale salads next!

I know this was posted a few years ago, but just wanted to drop a quick line to say thank you! 

As a recent transfer to town, a new colleague invited me to join her family for Thanksgiving dinner this weekend. I was tasked with bringing a salad. I had 0 idea what to bring (as I am not normally  a salad person at all) and was feeling an unreasonable amount of panic over this dish - wanting to make a decent first impression in a room full of strangers. 

Anyways- I came across your recipe and I am so glad I did!! I doubled it, but other than that did not change a thing. It was VERY well received. It complemented the traditional dinner very well. My colleague's sister even asked for the dressing recipe - and she is a chef in town! 

Thank you for this recipe! It was a smash hit at dinner - there wasn't anything left!

I would've shared a pic via Instagram but we ate it too fast! Because it was THAT GOOD. The perfect amount of vinegar to oil with sweetness from the honey, cranberries and apple. The lightly toasted pepitas really add another dimension to the overall flavour of this awesome salad! I made this without the goat cheese (didn't have any, but we are also trying to cut back on dairy). Thank you so much for sharing. Our friends who we shared it with all loved it. We will definitely make this again.

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Watch how to make my favorite green salad in this short recipe video! It’s easy to make with fresh spring greens, crisp apple, crumbled goat cheese and a simple dressing.

Favorite Green Salad Recipe

My favorite fresh salad featuring healthy greens, sliced apple, toasted pepitas, dried cranberries and crumbled goat cheese. Toss with my simple apple cider vinaigrette (recipe below) or use balsamic dressing in a pinch. Recipe yields 2 full-sized salads or 4 to 6 side salads.

Absolutely delicious! The dressing was a perfect accompaniment to the salad. This is definitely a salad that I will make time and time again.

I love this salad! It’s so so simple yet delicious and pairs well with most any cool weather meals. It’s easy to add to and play around with as well. A great staple. Thanks Kate!

This salad is one of my new favourites! I’ve made it quite a few times over! All my kids love it! Thank you for sharing.

Just ate this for dinner at my aunt’s home and it was absolutely amazing!! Healthy and full flavor with just the right about of sweet! Highly recommend!!

Num..num!!!! My go to salad recipe when my sweet tooth kicks in. Toddler friendly as well.

I have made this countless times and it is fantastic every time! Friends ask for it when they come over!

This salad is a slam dunk. It’s seriously delicious, and because it’s quick and easy to prepare, I will often do it for lunch on work days, combining it with either the “seriously good veggie soup” or creamy carrot soup (both from C&amp;K). That’s my definition of a perfect weekday lunch!

This was so good, thank you!! What kind of protein would you add to make it more of a main dish?

So good! Made this for my dad's 53rd birthday and was a hit overall. Though i did add chopped green onions to this. I am a huge onion fan :) Anyways, love the recipe!!

I made this salad and took it to friends place to contribute to supper for 5 of us.  It was absolutely delicious!  I used goat cheese rolled in dried cranberries instead of plain goat cheese plus the dried cranberries called for in the recipe. Next time I'll use plane goat cheese but either way is yummy! I'll definitely make it again!

Absolutely love this salad. I eat it at least once a week! It never gets old.

This salad was delicious. I have tried several different vinaigrette dressings recipes over the past few months but this one comes up on top! I will definitely be using this dressing regularly now. Delicious!!

I'm slowly working my way through your salad recipes and this is another winner!  Sounded good as we are on the cusp of another season. I added some celery, used pecans, and maple syrup instead of honey.  Flavors blend so well with the dressing!

I was thinking using feta as well. How did it turn out with this substitution??

Amazing!  Made it in October as a main course, so we subbed out candied pecans for the pepitas, and added grilled chicken.  So delicious, and the dressing is incredible.  My new favorite salad.

I love a good salad. This one was delicious! Thank you for sharing your recipe. :)

I have lost count of how many times I have made this salad.  Always a home run with dinner guests!

Made it for Thanksgiving and it was delish! I will definitely be making it again. Thank you!

Thank you for saving me. I'm British and I got invited to an American thanksgiving and I had to bring a fall salad and I didn't know what one was! I made this, followed the recipe exactly, and it was DELICIOUS. This salad is perfect in my opinion! The perfect side to a thanksgiving meal. It is also easy to make, thanks to the clear instructions.

I added a little bit of fresh microplaned ginger to the dressing to round out that holiday flavor profile.  Love this salad!

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