Favorite Green Salad with Apples, Cranberries and Pepitas

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Favorite Green Salad with Apples, Cranberries and Pepitas is a fresh salad where flavour and texture matter more than complicated cooking. Fresh green salad with apple, cranberries, seeds and crumbled goat cheese. It works well as a light lunch, a colourful side dish or part of a relaxed summer meal.

Why does this salad work so well?

Favorite Green Salad with Apples, Cranberries and Pepitas works because it balances freshness, creaminess and texture. The ingredients give the salad enough contrast to feel like a proper dish rather than a loose mix of leaves. Taste the dressing just before serving, especially when fruit, goat cheese, nuts or tender greens are involved, because the sweet-sour balance makes a big difference.

Serves: 4 people

Preparation time: 20 min

Ingredients

• Mixed salad greens – 150 g
• Apple – 1 large
• Dried cranberries – 50 g
• Pumpkin seeds – 40 g
• Soft goat cheese – 120 g
• Olive oil – 3 tbsp
• Apple cider vinegar – 1.5 tbsp
• Honey – 1 tsp
• Dijon mustard – 1 tsp
• Salt – to taste
• Black pepper – to taste

Method

STEP 1
Toast the pumpkin seeds if desired and thinly slice the apple.
STEP 2
Whisk olive oil, apple cider vinegar, honey and mustard into a dressing.
STEP 3
Combine greens, apple and cranberries. Finish with goat cheese, seeds and dressing.