Christmas isn’t always about heavyweight feasts. What if you want a healthy Christmas treat? Have you thought of a special Christmas salad? Yes, there can be a delicious and healthy salad for this festive season and you can easily make it in your kitchen. Salad, which is usually sidelined as a boring meal, can be interesting if the right ingredients and dressing are brought together in one bowl. Create magic this Christmas with a surprise salad bowl that mixes fresh vegetables with cheese, nuts and more. Dive into the assortment of flavors and textures that will explode in your mouth. All you need is a perfect recipe that can make your Christmas salad special.
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Chef Saransh Goila listened to our wish and served us just the recipe we were looking for. Sharing her recipe on Instagram, she wrote, “Which is your favorite Christmas salad? Mine should be the Strawberry, Candied Walnut and Feta Salad. Will you make it this Christmas? It’s so delicious.”
To prepare their Christmas Special Salad you will need these ingredients:
arugula
spinach leaves
Strawberries, 80 g, sliced
Onion, 1 large piece, chopped
Cherry tomatoes, 6-8 pieces, halved
avocado, 1 slice, sliced
Walnuts, 45g
Castor Sugar, 50 grams
Garlic, 10 g, chopped
olive oil, 50 ml
Balsamic Vinegar, 20 ml
honey, 10g
Peanut Butter, 15g
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
Feta Cheese, 30 g, crumbled
Once you have all the ingredients, you can start making the salad. Here’s the process to rustle it up:
- Melt castor sugar in a pan until golden. Add walnuts and put them in the syrup. Keep it aside to crystallize.
- After the sugar-coated walnuts form crystals, grind them coarsely.
- Put the ground walnuts in the blender. Add garlic, olive oil, honey and balsamic vinegar, peanut butter, salt and crushed black pepper. Mix all the ingredients together. This is the dressing for the salad.
- In salad bowl, add arugula and baby spinach.
- Top it off with strawberries, onions, cherry tomatoes, and avocado.
- Add feta cheese and walnuts to this salad.
- Drizzle a good amount of dressing over the salad.
- Add spark to your salad bowl with star-shaped croutons.
Here is the recipe video:
Merry Christmas.
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