Apple Pomegranate Harvest Salad
The whole family will love this amazing harvest salad! Made with crisp apple slices, crunchy + sweet pomegranate seeds, and lots of greens paired with a simple balsamic dressing. The perfect salad to serve as Thanksgiving side salad or to compliment your favorite meal!
This salad has a little bit of everything in it – lots of texture, sweet fruit taste, and leafy greens. You will fall in love with the flavors and find that it compliments almost any meal! You’ll need a handful of simple pantry ingredients for the homemade dressing and only a few minutes to throw together.
Simple, seasonal, and absolutely delicious!
Ingredients You’ll Need
First, let’s make sure we have everything we need to make this amazing side dish. This salad is made with just 9 simple ingredients that are available at most grocery stores and will be quick to throw together.
- Greens: For the base of the salad I love using mixed greens, spinach, or kale!
- Apples: my favorite apples for salad are honey crisp, pink lady, or granny smith apples!
- Pomegranate seeds: these sweet seeds add the perfect pop of flavor to the salad.
- Nuts: for the crunchy texture you can use chopped walnuts, pecans, almonds, or hazelnuts.
- Feta cheese: for a salty flavor!
- Oil: for the salad dressing! I recommend using a quality olive oil.
- Balsamic vinegar: a quality balsamic vinegar to flavor the salad dressing.
- Honey: to sweeten the salad dressing! You can also use maple syrup or coconut sugar.
- Garlic powder: to add flavoring to the salad dressing.
Extra Tips for Success
- Make dairy-free: If needed you can eliminate the cheese all together or swap for goat cheese.
- Make this salad ahead: If this salad needs to be prepped ahead of time I recommend storing all the prepped ingredients in separate ziplock bags, then assemble the salad as needed close to the time of serving.
- Add protein: you can pair this salad with chicken as a protein or for plant-based try lentils or chickpeas.
What to Pair it With
This salad goes perfectly with just about any meal! But some of my favorite meals to serve it with are alongside this lemon rosemary chicken and potatoes, air fryer turkey breast, or this autumn chicken and butternut squash skillet. We also love serving this for a holiday meal, it’s always a crowd-pleaser and is full of delicious flavor.
Other Delicious Salad Recipes to Enjoy
- Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
- Tuscan-Style Panzanella Salad
- Autumn Kale & Roasted Butternut Squash Salad
- Pear and Gorgonzola Salad
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Apple Pomegranate Harvest Salad
The whole family will love this amazing harvest salad! Made with crisp apple slices, crunchy + sweet pomegranate seeds, and lots of greens paired with a simple balsamic dressing. The perfect salad to serve as Thanksgiving side salad or to compliment your favorite meal!
Ingredients
Salad:
- 1 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1 honey crisp apple sliced thin
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 2-3 tbsp feta cheese
- Mixed greens
Dressing:
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- pinch of garlic powder
Instructions
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Add greens to a medium to large bowl and arrange salad toppings as desired.
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In a medium bowl add all of dressing ingredients and whisk thoroughly to combine. Taste and adjust as needed.
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Drizzle dressing over top salad and serve!
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Could you use lactose free cheddar cheese or lactose free marble cheese.
I’ve not tried any lactose free cheeses, but you can certainly pair them with the salad if you like them!
Looks amazing! I love apples and am always looking for new ways to enjoy them. Fantastic recipe!
Thanks so much Jack! So glad you enjoyed this recipe 🙂
This was yummy…even my 8-year-old liked it! Thanks 🙂
I was amazed at how good this salad was. I will definitely make it again next Thanksgiving!
We had this salad for Thanksgiving as well. I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you, Heather!
I’ve made this several times. It’s a go-to recipe for me. Everyone loves it.
Thank you, Judy! So awesome to hear!
Could I make this salad in advance? Planning on having people over for dinner and would like to make this salad in the morning .. what do you recommend ? Adding the chopped apples last ? Will the other ingredients get soagy
Thanks 🙂
Yes! I’ve actually made this salad ahead of time quite a few times. I like to just put everything in separate bags or containers. Greens, pomegranate seeds, apples, feta, and pecans should all be in separate bags so they don’t get soggy all together. Hope this helps – enjoy the salad 🙂
PEOPLE!! You have GOT to try this salad if you haven’t already! It is SO delicious! Made it the day after Thanksgiving for a lighter supper to give our bodies a break from the ton of food & desserts consumed the day before. Perfect with some hearty multi grain rolls. I added some warmed up rotiseri chicken I had from a few nights before . . .delish! Also used blue cheese instead of feta, candied pecans instead of plain (hubby has a sweet tooth) and 1/4 of a granny smith apple & 1/4 of a honey crisp per salad. All those sweet & tart flavors make your taste buds sparkle! So, so yummy. Do not skip that dressing either . . .it is SO worth making it, only takes 2 seconds . . .measure all the ingredients into jar & shake . . .that’s it! . . .just the perfect finish for this salad!
So glad you liked it! It’s a fun salad to mix up the toppings with. Candied pecans sound amazing!
Love the sweet and tart together with the feta cheese topping it off! Great salad for the hibernation season ?