TOP 10 Christmas Salad Recipes
Easy & Delicious Salads for the Feast
1. Quick Christmas Salad with Pecans
This Quick Christmas Salad with Pecans is a really quick and easy salad which is perfect for those days in between Christmas and New Year. I don’t know about you, but I am always craving something fresh and light after the heavy Christmas Day dinner of turkey and potatoes. Enter…
Ingredients for Quick Christmas Salad with Pecans:
1½ (16-oz) packages Mixed greens
1½ cups Pecans
8 oz Dried cherries
¼ lb Parmesan cheese
½ cup Salad dressing
2. Warm Christmas Rice Salad
This Warm Christmas Rice Salad is easy, colorful, and festive too. It is packed full of roasted butternut squash and a mix of wild and long grain rice, with the added crunch of pistachios and pomegranate seeds for a tangy garnish. So I think that this warm salad makes a…
Ingredients for Warm Christmas Rice Salad:
1 lb Butternut squash
2 tbsp Olive oil
Salt
Black pepper
1½ cups Wild Rice Blend
1 tbsp Olive oil
½ Lemon
2 tbsp Fresh mint
3½ oz Pomegranate seeds
1¾ oz Pistachio nuts
3½ oz Feta cheese
3. Christmas Sweet Potato & Cauliflower Salad
This Sweet Potato-and-Cauliflower Salad recipe is a delicious festive salad which everyone will love! It combines warm, roasted vegetables with lettuces, pomegranate seeds and a sherry vinaigrette. To make the salad, start by roasting sweet potatoes and cauliflower in the oven and leave to cool. Make a dressing by whisking…
Ingredients for Christmas Sweet Potato & Cauliflower Salad:
1 1/2 lb Sweet potatoes
1 small head Cauliflower
7 tbsp extra-virgin Olive oil
1 tsp Kosher Salt
1/2 tsp Black pepper
2 tbsp Sherry vinegar
7 cups torn Lettuce
1 cup torn Arugula
2/3 cup Pomegranate seeds
4. Mandarin Couscous Salad
I always make a Mandarin Couscous Salad to accompany our Christmas dinner. It is fresh and full of flavor and makes use of mandarins – the symbolic Christmas fruit! There was a time when an orange was an exotic fruit in Europe and people would receive them as a treat…
Ingredients for Mandarin Couscous Salad:
1 ⅓ cups Water
1 cup Couscous
1 can (11 oz) Mandarin
1 cup Frozen peas
½ cup Almonds
⅓ cup Red onion
3 tbsp Lemon juice
2 tbsp Olive oil
1 tbsp Sugar
¼ tsp Salt
¼ tsp Hot pepper sauce
5. Duck and Orange Salad
This Duck and Orange Salad is quite an impressive dish and definitely will win you the title of Master Chef with it’s exceptional flavor palette and elevated serving style. Roasted duck breasts in a orange sauce with toasted baguette slices and giant orange rounds topped with walnuts and sprinkles of…
Ingredients for Duck and Orange Salad:
2 x 150g Duck breast fillets
1 Baguette
15g Walnuts
3 Oranges
30g Spinach
Kosher Salt
Black pepper
6. Christmas Broccoli Salad with Pomegranate
This Christmas Broccoli Salad with Pomegranate is one of the best keto-friendly salad recipes for Christmas and it goes perfectly with Christmas dinner. Fresh, crisp and delicious combination of fruit and veggies, it is a perfect Christmas salad recipe! It couldn’t be easier to make this salad. I start by…
Ingredients for Christmas Broccoli Salad with Pomegranate:
FOR SALAD:
1 lb Broccoli
4 oz Pomegranate
4 Mandarin
1 cup Sunflower seedsFOR ASIAN VINAIGRETTE DRESSING:
5 tbsp Red wine vinegar
½ cup Sugar
1 tsp Sesame oil
2 tbsp Soy sauce
⅛ tsp Sea salt
⅛ tsp Black pepper
7. Christmas Salad
This Christmas Salad recipe is a delicious salad for the festive season. Bright and fresh, it is a colorful mix of cauliflower, broccoli, red onion and cherry tomatoes combined with a creamy dressing. This salad will quickly become one of your favorite Christmas side dish recipes. To make the salad,…
Ingredients for Christmas Salad:
FOR THE SALAD:
1 Broccoli
1 Cauliflower
1 Red onion
2 cups Cherry tomatoesFOR THE DRESSING:
1 cup Mayonnaise
½ cup Sour cream
1 tbsp Sugar
8. Apple and Corn Salad
This Apple and Corn Salad is one of my favorite Christmas side dish recipes. It is healthy and delicious and because it doesn’t have a heavy dressing, it makes a fresh light accompaniment to Christmas dinner. Your guests will love it! Start by mixing diced apples with lemon juice in…
Ingredients for Apple and Corn Salad:
2 Apples
1 tsp Lemon juice
5 cups Corn
¼ cup Mayonnaise
¼ tsp Salt
¼ tsp Black pepper
2 tbsp Parsley
9. Best-Ever Farro Salad
This Best-Ever Farro Salad is great on so many levels – the key ingredient is crispy fried shallots and the dressing is packed full of flavor! Add cooked farro, nuts, cheese, fruit, and leafy greens and you’ve got a pretty special Christmas salad! To make this salad, start by cooking…
Ingredients for Best-Ever Farro Salad :
1 cup Whole-grain farro
2 cups Vegetable broth
1½ tsp Kosher Salt
1 Bay leaf
1 Shallots
⅓ cup Olive oil
3 tbsp Apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp Honey
Black pepper
2 cups Arugula
1 Apples
½ cup Parmesan cheese
¼ cup Basil
⅛ cup Parsley
¼ cup Pecans
10. Christmas Pilaff
This Christmas Pilaff is a fantastic warm Christmas salad – perfect to serve for any vegetarian guests this holiday season. It uses one of my favorite winter ingredients – pomegranate seeds. Top tip, while they sit, the pomegranate seeds might release a lot of juice. Don’t discard this! Drain it…
Ingredients for Christmas Pilaff :
00 g Pistachio nuts
2 Pomegranate
200 g Basmati rice
400 ml Vegetable stock
4 Garlic clove
1-cm piece of Fresh ginger
1 tbsp Butter
2 tbsp Olive oil
1 tsp Coriander seeds
2 Red onion
1 Lemon
1 bunch Parsley