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Christmas Salad Recipe

December 19, 2019 by Jeanette 3 Comments

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Christmas Salad - beautiful holiday salad featuring jewel toned ingredients sure to delight guests

This Christmas Salad is a delight for the eyes, perfect for the holiday season. I made this beautiful, jewel-toned salad for some special friends to kick off the holiday season. Featuring arugula and jewel-toned radicchio, beets, pomegranate arils, Medjool dates and macadamia nuts, this Christmas Salad is as delicious as it looks.

Christmas Salad - beautiful holiday salad featuring jewel toned ingredients sure to delight guests

This salad was inspired by several beautiful salads I saw in Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More cookbook. Interestingly, Yotam Ottolenghi uses cinnamon and toasted fennel seeds in one of his dressings. I love the depth of flavor the cinnamon gives the dressing without overpowering the taste.

Christmas Salad - beautiful holiday salad featuring jewel toned ingredients sure to delight guests

When I think of Christmas, I think of multi-colored Christmas lights, ornaments in all shapes and sizes, and presents wrapped in all different Christmas paper. This Christmas Salad reminds me of all these things.

Christmas Salad - beautiful holiday salad featuring jewel toned ingredients sure to delight guests

The combination of bitter, sweet, sour, and tangy flavors makes this beautiful Christmas Salad a tasty delight for guests this holiday season. It’s eye-popping attractive, is fun to eat, and you get pops of different flavors in your mouth to enjoy.

Christmas Salad - beautiful holiday salad featuring jewel toned ingredients sure to delight guests

This Christmas Salad would be a wonderful accompaniment to almost any main course this holiday season.

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Christmas Salad

Course Salad
Prep Time 30 minutes
Servings 6
Calories 184 kcal

Ingredients

Salad

  • 4 cups baby arugula
  • 4 leaves radicchio sliced or torn
  • 1 clementine peeled, cut in half crosswise, segments separated
  • 1/2 cup cooked beets peeled, chopped
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
  • 1/2 cup red onions thinly sliced, soaked in cold water 15 minutes, drained
  • 2 tablespoons pomegranate arils
  • 1/4 cup basil leaves
  • 3 medjool dates seeded, chopped
  • 4 tablespoons macadamia nuts toasted, chopped

Dressing

  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
  • 1 clove garlic crushed
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons fennel seeds toasted, lightly crushed
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Place all Salad ingredients on a large platter. Whisk together Dressing ingredients. Drizzle over salad just before serving.

Nutrition Facts
Christmas Salad
Amount Per Serving
Calories 184 Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Fat 12g18%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Sodium 58mg3%
Potassium 303mg9%
Carbohydrates 19g6%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 14g16%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 520IU10%
Vitamin C 19.5mg24%
Calcium 56mg6%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Comments

  1. angiesrecipes says

    December 6, 2018 at 12:21 am

    Such a pretty holiday salad! Really gorgeous colour and flavour!

    Reply
  2. Shelley says

    December 9, 2018 at 10:53 am

    It looks like there are cherry tomatoes and red onion in the Christmas salad, but they are not listed in the ingredients???

    Reply
    • Jeanette says

      December 9, 2018 at 10:59 am

      Hi Shelly – thanks for catching that – I’ve added them to the recipe. Happy Holidays!

      Reply

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