Winter Salad
Ingredients
Winter Salad
- 1 cup almonds (unsalted)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- pinch of course salt
- 1 Bosc pear
- 8 blood oranges
- 6 ounces baby spinach
- 5 ounce log of honey goat cheese
- 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1 lemon (optional, see note)
Blood Orange Vinaigrette
- 1/4 cup blood orange juice (freshly squeezed)
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
Instructions
Blood Orange Vinaigrette
- Cut in half 3-4 blood oranges and squeeze the juice until you measure about 1⁄4 cup.
- Add the orange juice to a small, glass mixing bowl.
- To the same mixing bowl, add olive oil, red wine vinegar, honey, granulated garlic, pink salt, paprika, and white pepper.
- Whisk all ingredients together. Set aside.
Winter Salad
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a small mixing bowl add the almonds and honey and stir until all the almonds are coated with honey.
- Place the honey coated almonds onto a parchment or silicone lined baking sheet.
- Sprinkle a pinch of course sea salt over the almonds and place in oven.
- Roast almonds for 10 minutes until toasty brown.
- Cut pear into bite size pieces. Set aside. (See note)
- Peel and cut the remaining blood oranges into bite size pieces. Set aside.
- On a large serving platter lay baby spinach evenly across platter.
- Add the cut up pears and blood oranges over top of the baby spinach.
- Crumble the goat cheese over top of the salad.
- Add the pomegranate seeds and honey roasted almonds over the top of the salad.
- Before serving the salad, whisk together dressing once again and pour over top of salad.
Notes
After cutting the pear into bite size pieces, I squeeze the juice of a lemon over them. This will help the pear to not turn brown before serving. If you decide to garnish the salad with extra blood oranges, you will need to buy more than what the recipe calls for. I find the honey goat cheese at Trader Joes or Whole Foods. If you can't find honey goat cheese then plain goat cheese works just as well too!