5 Days Till Christmas: Mandarin Apple Salad Recipe
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It seems like we just tossed things into this Mandarin Apple Salad as we went along and it turned out fantastic. I guess you really can’t go wrong with this list of ingredients. We don’t have the feta cheese in the photos because we added it while we were already wolfing down the salad, but we both really liked the feta. Sweet, salty, tangy. Major crave!
My son loved this salad too. Yeah, he eats leafy-type salads (my little guy just amazes me). He also loved to help make the salad; washing, spinning and adding all the fixin’s.
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Ingredients for Mandarin Apple Salad:
1 large head of romaine lettuce
1-2 medium apples (add to a small bowl with juice of 1/2 lemon + 1/2 cup water to keep from browning)
3-4 mandarins (seedless)
1/2 small red onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup walnuts, optional
1/4 cup craisins (dried cranberries)
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese (optional; it’s not photographed because we added it late)
Sweet Balsamic Vinaigrette (see recipe below)
Ingredients for the Sweet Balsamic Vinaigrette:
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
How to Make Mandarin Apple Salad:
1. Start off by washing, chopping and spinning dry your romaine lettuce. The kiddos can get involved with this step. This spinner is unique. It’s like no spinner I’ve ever tried because it has a turbo fan inside that adds large volumes of air which blows the water off your greens. It does what it’s supposed to do; it really spins the salad dry! It’s also very sturdy. Transfer your greens to your salad bowl.
2. Peel and separate your mandarins. Toss into your salad bowl.
3. Chop your apples into 1/2″ pieces. If you aren’t eating your salad right away, add apples to a small bowl filled with juice of 1/2 lemon + 1/2 cup water to keep from browning. Just drain and toss in when ready to serve!
4. Top salad with chopped onion, walnuts and craisins. Add dressing to taste and then sprinkle with feta if you wish. Voila! P.S. This Dexas salad bowl, Dexas klip-cup and Dexas Salad Hands
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The winner of this Dexas giveaway will receive the following Salad-making tools:
1. Dexas Turbo Fan Salad Spinner
2. Pair of Dexas Salad Hands (these are awesome! They wrap around the salad bowl perfectly and make tossing salad a breeze) Pick your color: green, red or orange
3. Dexas Salad Bowl (This bowl can be used for chips and dip too!) Pick your color: lime green or purple.
4. Dexas Klip Kup; an 8 oz cup to hold your salad dressing, or dip. We put the walnuts in the Klip Kup because our son doesn’t eat nuts; just another use for it.What a clever invention!
Mandarin Apple Salad
Ingredients
Ingredients for Mandarin Apple Salad:
- 1 large head of romaine lettuce
- 1-2 medium apples add to a small bowl with juice of 1/2 lemon + 1/2 cup water to keep from browning
- 3-4 mandarins seedless
- 1/2 small red onion finely chopped
- 1/2 cup walnuts optional
- 1/4 cup craisins dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese optional
- Sweet Balsamic Vinaigrette
Ingredients for the Sweet Balsamic Vinaigrette:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
Instructions
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Wash, chop and spin dry your romaine lettuce. Than transfer your greens to the salad bowl.
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Peel and separate mandarins. Toss into the salad bowl.
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Chop apples into 1/2" pieces. If you aren't eating your salad right away, add apples to a small bowl filled with juice of 1/2 lemon + 1/2 cup water to keep from browning. Just drain and toss in when ready to serve!
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Top salad with chopped onion, walnuts and craisins. Add dressing to taste and then sprinkle with feta if you wish. Voila!
Natasha Kravchuk
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Hi Natasha! The recipe sounds great! I have some mandarins but they are a bit sour. Do you think they will be good for this salad? Thank you!
Hi LaLe, that would still work. I love the contrast of tanginess that mandarins bring to the salad.
ceaser salad love it
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I like to make caesar salad, its good and easy.
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Fresh Green Leaf salad is our favorite
I like chopped lettuce, cucumber, avocado, green onion, mixed with oil and garlic (oil and garlic mixed and heated in micowave for like 15 seconds, then added and mixed into the salad). so good with shashlik 🙂
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I love ceasar salad
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My favorite salad is cucumber, green onion, radishes, dill, mixed with mayo and sour cream
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My favorite salad is garden salad with lots of mix-ins.
I love fruit salad.
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Lately I’ve been making and crving the wreath salad that you have posted. So yummy. I’m making to 3 Christmas parties this weekend.
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i love ceaser salad its very delicious and i always order it at the restaurant when me and my husband go out 🙂
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My favorite salad to make is vinigret!
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I have a favorite salad but have no clue the name of it, I make my own dressing with olive oil and some spices, and salad romaine lettuce, apple, grapes and feta cheese plus croutons. It sooo good
That’s funny, I made a very similar salad today except I added dried cranberries instead of the apples and had Thousand Island for the dressing. Love a simple salad!
Ceaser and Cobb salads are my favorites.
Caesar salad and venigret are my faves.
Beet salat. With garlic. : )
I just like the green leaf salad, what ever that would be. I also add other vegetables of my choice to it and some parmasan cheese.
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My favorite salad to make is a mandarine cranberry salad with a vinagrette made from apple cider vinager. So yummy!
I like garden salads and Cesar as well, especially with nice piece of chicken …. Yam:)
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my whole family loves beets salad, its easy to make and really healthy 🙂 You have it here with onions I add garlic to mine.
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My favorite salad is Chicken Oriental from Applebee’s. it’s soo good, I never get sick of it! 🙂
I love broccoli, bacon and cranberry salad. I make it for potlucks and it’s gone in seconds. 🙂
Any salad is good, just LOVE lettuce!! Would love to try ur new recipe
This is by far the best salad ever!
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I love making/eating any kind of salad with avocado in it. And I like the (mushroom, spinach, cheese, ham) type of salad. 🙂
I love a simple salad of just tomatoes and cucumbers for every day, but I recently made your broccoli/walnut/cranberry salad, and it is one of my new faves!
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My favorite salad is just garden salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, sunflower seeds/nuts with ranch dressing.
In my family we eat ceasar salad the most. Its one of my family favorites and easy to make.
Simple greens with ranch/mayo/freshly minced garlic mix usually hits the spot.
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I love Olive Garden’s all you can eat salad =) Yummmy!
I really like olivye salad. 🙂
My favorite salad is the Creamy Spinach Chicken Tomato salad. Ever since I tried it earlier this year, it has been one of my absolute favorites. I also love Pringle salad (cooked, diced beets, carrots, peas, canned corn, and crushed Pringles. Mayo, minced garlic, and salt is the dressing) Yum! Another favorite is fresh Spring Mix or baby Spinach salad greens with varying toppings. Always turns out wonderful. Honey mustard dressing, of course (;
My favorite salad changes weekly, but I’m currently in love with “shuba” (your recipe).
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I love the broccoli salad with cranberries & nuts! Delish!!
I really like shuba.
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I love Caesar salad!!!
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My hubby’s and my favorite salad would have to be a mixed green salad with either Caesar or Italian dressing, toasted pecans, grilled chicken or shrimp, cherry tomatoes and baby cucumbers all tossed together. The salad is all about fresh ingredients. We love to top our salads with fresh grated parmesan cheese too.
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Tomato, cucumber, onion, and parsley — with olive oil and garlic salt!
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My favorite salad to eat at home starts with romaine and any veggies that I have. Must have tomatoe, cucumber, onion, avocado and egg. Tossed with oil & vinegar salt & pepper. A big bowl of it and its a meal! Love salads!
spinach and strawberry salad!!! :p
I love something I call coleslaw salad. It has coleslaw mix, almonds, sunflower seeds, green onions and ramen noodles in it. Sounds like a strange combo but is absolutely delicious and very easy to make.
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I love caesar salads, and the caesar dressing you have posted on your site became a favorite for me. Thanks for all your great recipes 🙂
One of my favorite salads is a mix of romaine lettuce, dry cranberries, almonds, avocado and all tossed with Italian dressing or balsamic.
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The salad I really like is tostada salad from
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I love making cesar salad and feta sald with spinach and white balsamic vinegar and olive oil 🙂
my absolute favorite salad is to have spinach.. Top it with baby tomatoes, sweet white onion, chopped green chives and sprinkle it with feta! AND use Olive Garden dresssing!
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my favorite salad to make and eat would probably be the “vinigret” salad. my all time favorite russian salad. Dont ever get sick of it 😉
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I love Caesar salad. I eat it just about every week
I love eating the fuji apple salad.
My favorite salad would be (olivE) not sure if that would be considered a salad, but in my book it is a “salad”.
I really like the broccoli and raisin salad. I’ve discovered it this summer and LOVe it!
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My favorite salad: spinach with ground turkey, avocado, greek yogurt, and lemon juice. Yummy and so good for you 🙂
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I love Costco’s Grand Parisian salad mix. It includes lettuce, carrots, white balsamic dressing, almonds, cranberries, and feta cheese. I’m actually about to eat it 🙂
Romaine lettuce with shredded carrots, parmesan cheese, grape tomatoes, and ceasar or ranch dressing. Actually this salad turns out different almost every time because I like to put other extras like crab meat or avocado…etc. This salad is so easy to make and so good!
I like to eat olivye salad.
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My favorite salad is with lettuce, walnuts, gorgonzola, cranberries, apples and the raspberry walnut gorgonzola salad dressing from trader joes 🙂