Sunshine Salad....The Best Fall Salad EVER!
 
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The best Fall salad EVER! Delicious ingredients and an AMAZING dressing!
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Recipe type: Salad
Serves: 12-15
Ingredients
  • 1 regular size bag of spinach (about 4-5 cups)
  • 1 large head of Romaine Lettuce, (about 4-5 cups)
  • 1 large apple, cut into ½ inch chunks, (I like Gala or Honey Crisp)
  • 2 oranges, segmented and cut into ½ inch chunks
  • ¾ cup chopped walnuts
  • 2 tbsp honey (you wil use the honey with the walnuts, see instructions)
  • ¼-1/3 cup Feta Cheese crumbles
  • ¼-1/3 cup dried cranberries
  • DRESSING INGREDIENTS
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 2 tbsp frozen orange juice concentrate (still works well if you just use regular orange juice)
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice, fresh or the imitation kind you can keep in the fridge
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • dash of pepper
Instructions
  1. In a small frying pan combine chopped walnuts and honey, stir constantly until honey bubbles and starts to thicken...cook for 1 more minute watching carefully to not burn and turn it out on to a plate or piece of parchment paper to cool and harden.
  2. Prepare Salad Dressing by putting all the dressing ingredients into a bottle that has a lid and shaking vigorously until it is well combined. If you would rather you can put all of the dressing ingredients into your blender and blend for about 20-30 seconds.
  3. Store dressing in the fridge until you are ready to serve. A tip my friend Tiffany told me is to cut the apples up and put them in the dressing so that when you are ready to serve the salad they are already cut and ready to go. This tip will also help them not to brown. If you do not do this trick with the apples make sure to soak them for about 10 minutes in lemon juice water to keep them from browning in the salad.
  4. When the walnuts have cooled, either break them apart by hand or give them a quick chop with a knife to break them back into small pieces.
  5. When you are ready to serve the salad. combine the spinach, romaine, oranges, honeyed walnut pieces, dried cranberries and Feta in a large bowl. Pour dressing with apples over the salad and toss to coat.
  6. Enjoy!
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/sunshine-salad-best-fall-salad-ever/