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Strawberry, Apple, and Pear Spinach Salad is an easy-to-make spinach salad with crisp apples, pears, and strawberries hidden throughout. It is topped with feta cheese and crunchy pecans and tossed in a delicious apple cider dressing!
If you think this salad is amazing, you’ll love this Strawberry Avocado Salad, and Cranberry Apple Salad. This Broccoli Apple Salad is also mouthwateringly good. I can’t resist a good salad, especially when it involves crisp apples and strawberries!
Spinach Salad Recipe
I adore an amazing mouthwatering salad. And now that I have lost the weight after my last baby, I am in maintenance mode. Don’t you think that maintaining a weight can often be harder than losing weight? Especially when you are a foodie at heart and want to eat #allthethings? I have learned that it comes down to finding a good balance and what is right for you. A good salad is on repeat for me. When we went to Hawaii, or when I went on a weekend trip, I knew that it was important to come back and get right on track again.
I love a good salad, and I love it when it involves spinach. Especially when the salad is combined with fruits like apples, pears, strawberries, blackberries, you name it. I love it when you get the best of both worlds of your fruit and vegetable. I know that you will love everything that is involved in this salad. It is especially amazing tossed in the apple cider poppyseed dressing! You could also try it with my Catalina French dressing.
What ingredients are in this salad?
- spinach
- strawberries
- apples
- pears
- feta cheese
- pecans
How do you make Strawberry, Apple, and Pear Spinach Salad?
- Add spinach, chopped strawberries, sliced pears, and apples to a large bowl.
- Make your apple cider vinegar dressing, pour over the salad, and toss.
- Top with chopped pecans and feta cheese.
This strawberry salad is light, delicious, and perfectly served as a side. You can even add some protein like chicken and it will become a complete meal. I know that you will love this salad, and it will also become a new favorite!
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Strawberry, Apple, and Pear Spinach Salad with an Apple Cider Poppyseed Dressing
Ingredients
- 4 cups spinach
- 1 cup sliced strawberries
- 1 sliced apple I used honey crisp
- 1 sliced pear
Apple Cider Poppyseed Dressing:
- ½ cup apple cider
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon poppyseeds
- ¼ cup feta cheese
- ¼ cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine 4 cups spinach, 1 cup sliced strawberries, 1 sliced apple, and 1 sliced pear.
To make the dressing
- In a small bowl, whisk together the ½ cup apple cider, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon honey, and 1 teaspoon poppyseeds. Pour over salad and toss.
- Top with ¼ cup feta cheese and ¼ cup chopped pecans.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This was good. But I DID NOT use the apple cider. #1) it just didnt make sense to use it in my brain. #2) 1/2 cup seemed like an awful lot. The dressing was fantastic without it. I used walnut oil rather then olive oil as well. I tossed in a few raspberries and blackberries as well just for fun.
Can you tell my what kind of apple cider you use for this dressing? I’ve
Never bought apple cider other than the stuff that is in pkgs that you add water to and it has lots of sugar in it.
The recipe calls for apple cider and apple cider vinegar. Is there a typo error here? (in your response to Marianne Jan 17, 2023)
Hi Loren, thank you for the question. There is actually both. I realized I hadn’t added when you need to add the apple cider vinegar. I hope this helps!
My husband and teenaged daughter enjoyed this. My daughter and I used the homemade dressing. My husband used Italian dressing instead. I didn’t have pecans but subbed toasted walnuts instead. Very healthy and versatile.
Thumbs up to this salad. It’s so colourful and delicious. I’ll definitely try it out but will it be okay if I eat this for dinner? It’s sour though. Thank you for sharing.
I think maintaining after having kids is harder! It’s almost as if when you need to lose, it just makes sense to deprive yourself of all the sweets but when you are in maintaining mode, you can splurge sometimes so long as you don’t let it overtake your life! A salad like this is GREAT to have on repeat!!!
very nice balance of flavors with sweet, sour, creamy etc, and really nice pairing of feta and strawberries! Thank you!
Love the recipes you post. I have tried and enjoyed several of them.
I love this salad. Fresh apples, pears and strawberries w/ wonderful dressing! Thank u!!!!