Apple Walnut Salad

This Apple Walnut Salad is a delicious winter salad recipe that’s packed with healthy greens, fruit, nuts, sweet onions, sharp blue cheese and buttery goat cheese, all topped with a sweet balsamic salad dressing!

 

This Apple and Walnut Salad is one of our favourite lunches lately and we can’t wait to share it with you! We don’t know about you, but our love for salads definitely doesn’t die with the end of summer. Really who says salads are just for summer anyway, right?? We love putting a seasonal spin on our favourite salads, allowing us to enjoy local ingredients in season and still get all our greens in! This Spinach Apple Salad with Walnuts is actually a wintery version of our favourite Berry Walnut Spinach Salad that we make at least weekly in the summer. We’ve swapped the berries for delicious apples, added two of our favourite cheeses – blue cheese and goat cheese, because we couldn’t decide on one! – and settled on a deliciously easy Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing to top it all off!

Of course, if you’re not a fan of blue cheese or goat cheese, feel free to skip the cheese altogether or choose the one you like the most. We are partial to both and the sharp blue cheese paired with the buttery goat cheese on this Apple Walnut Salad, but the beauty of salads is you can make them however you please! Just don’t forget those healthy greens!!

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These are the ingredients needed for this Spinach Apple Salad recipe:

• spinach
• golden delicious apple
• honey crisp apple
• red onion
• walnuts
• goat cheese
• blue cheese
• balsamic vinegar
• maple syrup
• olive oil
• dijon mustard

We hope you love this Apple Walnut Salad as much as we do! Let us know in the comments below, what’s your favourite way to get your greens in? A smoothie? A salad? We’d love to know!!    

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Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

This Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing is a delicious winter salad recipe that’s packed with healthy greens, fruit, nuts, sweet onions, sharp blue cheese and buttery goat cheese, all topped with a sweet balsamic salad dressing!

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By Chrissie

Yield 4 servings

Prep 20 minutes mins

Total 20 minutes mins

Recipe: Ingredients 

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For the salad:

• ▢ 6 cups fresh baby spinach
• ▢ 1 golden delicious apple thinly sliced
• ▢ 1 honeycrisp apple thinly sliced
• ▢ 1/2 small red onion thinly sliced
• ▢ 1/4 cup walnuts roughly chopped
• ▢ 1/4 cup goat cheese crumbled
• ▢ 1/4 cup blue cheese crumbled

For the dressing:

• ▢ 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• ▢ 4 tablespoons maple syrup
• ▢ 2 teaspoons olive oil
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard

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Recipe: Instructions 

• Add the spinach, apple slices, onion slices, and walnuts to a large bowl. 
• Whisk the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl.
• Pour the dressing over the salad, toss well, and top with the goat cheese and blue cheese.

Recipe: Notes

Because apples brown when exposed to the air, it’s a good idea to enjoy this salad within 30 minutes of preparation.

The remainder of the salad ingredients can be assembled ahead of time, and the dressing can also be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge until serving.

Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Salad

Cuisine: American, Winter

Keywords: Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Recipe: Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Amount Per Serving (1 serving)

Calories 263 Calories from Fat 117

% Daily Value*

Fat 13g20%

Saturated Fat 4g25%

Cholesterol 13mg4%

Sodium 219mg10%

Potassium 478mg14%

Carbohydrates 32g11%

Fiber 4g17%

Sugar 24g27%

Protein 7g14%

Vitamin A 4478IU90%

Vitamin C 16mg19%

Calcium 150mg15%

Iron 2mg11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.