Apple Walnut Salad

This apple walnut salad recipe is a delicious blend of sweet and savory ingredients!

I made my family an Apple Walnut Salad for lunch, which is loosely based on a salad I had at a tea house in Virginia many years ago.

This should fall under the category of Impromptu Leftovers, but it is so delicious that I will make it on purpose in the future. I had a bit of cooked bacon and Parmesan cheese leftover from meals I made last week. I also over-bought lettuce and apples when I went shopping and needed to use them up. So I used these ingredients as the foundation for my salad.

Instead of coating the salad with a vinaigrette, I replaced all of the sugar and some of the vinegar with juice to make a (refined) sugar-free dressing. Since I was using apples in the salad, I used apple juice in the dressing.

Apple Walnut Salad Recipe

As a meal, this will serve four.  As a side dish, it will feed up to eight.

Ingredients

Salad Ingredients:

• 8 cups salad greens
• 2 large apples, cored and cut into bite-size pieces
• 4 pieces of cooked bacon, crumbled
• ¼ cup chopped walnuts
• 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

Salad Dressing Ingredients:

• ¼ cup walnut oil (or other mildly flavored oil)
• ¼ cup apple juice
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar ( or your favorite vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard (or ½ t. dry mustard)
• ¼ teaspoon coarse ground black pepper

Directions:

1. In a small jar or cruet, combine all of the salad dressing ingredients and shake well.
2. In a large bowl, combine the greens, apples, bacon, walnuts, and cheese.
3. In a small jar (with a tight-fitting lid) combine the oil, apple juice, vinegar, mustard, and pepper.
4. Shake the dressing well.
5. Drizzle the dressing over the salad.
6. Toss thoroughly and serve immediately.

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Apple Walnut Salad

Apple Walnut Salad Recipe

Course Salad

Cuisine American

Keyword Apple Walnut Salad Recipe

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 170kcal

Author Alea Milham

Ingredients

Salad Ingredients:

• ▢ 8 cups salad greens
• ▢ 2 large apples cored and cut into bite-size pieces
• ▢ 4 pieces of cooked bacon crumbled
• ▢ ¼ cup chopped walnuts
• ▢ 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

Salad Dressing Ingredients:

• ▢ ¼ cup walnut oil or other mildly flavored oil
• ▢ ¼ cup apple juice
• ▢ 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar or your favorite vinegar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon dijon mustard or ½ t. dry mustard
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon coarse ground black pepper

Instructions

• In a small jar or cruet, combine all of the salad dressing ingredients and shake well.
• In a large bowl, combine the greens, apples, bacon, walnuts, and cheese.
• In a small jar (with a tight-fitting lid) combine the oil, apple juice, vinegar, mustard, and pepper.
• Shake the dressing well.
• Drizzle the dressing over the salad.
• Toss thoroughly and serve immediately.

Notes

As a meal, this will serve four.  As a side dish, it will feed up to eight.

Nutrition

Calories: 170kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 168mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 495IU | Vitamin C: 11mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 0.5mg

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