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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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! 

Servings 6

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 5 mins

Course: Salad, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Tags: apple pomegranata salad, harvest salad, kale apple salad

Freezer Friendly: No

Calories: 300 kcal

Author: Bethany Kramer

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

1. Add greens to a medium to large bowl and arrange salad toppings as desired.
2. In a medium bowl add all of dressing ingredients and whisk thoroughly to combine. Taste and adjust as needed.

3. Drizzle dressing over top salad and serve!

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