This salad is both delicious and healthful. It is simple to create, utilizes simple-to-find ingredients, and has a gourmet flavor. It’s best to use a romaine/red leaf combination for this salad. To make a full main dish, combine this salad with grilled chicken strips.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 10 mins |
| Servings: | 5 |
| Yield: | 5 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (10 ounce) package mixed salad greens, rinsed and dried
- 1 (8 ounce) package sweetened dried cranberries
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
- 4 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped
- 1 avocado – peeled, pitted and diced
- ½ (8 ounce) bottle raspberry walnut vinaigrette
Instructions
- In a large bowl, toss together the salad greens, cranberries, sunflower seeds and tomatoes. Top with avocado (and chicken strips, if desired), add vinaigrette and serve.
Reviews
I also added seasoned almond slivers, plain chopped walnuts, and blue cheese crumbles. It was good, but I think I could go without the sunflower seeds. Especially since I didn’t realize I used salted haha. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the dressing I chose, I would like to try another next time. It also didn’t pair well with the dinner I made. I am sure it’ll be a 5/5 stars when I try this again.
Excellent! This one my husband liked enough to have me make it again! I’m making it for my swim officials group fall picnic.
Use raspberry vinaigrette Omit avocado and use feta cheese and a bit of red onion – check review
Love, Love, Love this salad! It is a great combination of ingredients and is not hard to make. I made my own raspberry vinaigrette and didn’t worry about any nuts other than the sunflower seeds. It was perfect! Not good leftover, so eat it all the first day!
This salad was simple to make and delicious. My husband and I thought it was just right for our supper last night.
I made this for my mother’s day party, and everyone LOVED it. It does not take long to prepare, and I only use 4 oz of dried cranberries, and easily made six servings. I also added 4 oz of honey glazed pecans, and strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries, wich really turned it into a “wonderful berry salad”! 😀
Sounds wonderful. I make this type of salad frequently for lunches. Paul Newman has a wonderful fat free raspberry-walnut dressing. For a change, I add 5 large cooked shrimp cut up for more substance. Enjoy!
This salad is great! I substituted almonds for the sunflower seeds and it still was a great salad. I will add feta or chicken the next time. Yummy!!!
add fresh sliced strawberries and grilled chicken. red
will try this. i have found a rasberry walnut vinagrette that has some horseradish in it. it biters back a bit , but oh so good.
It is the same recipe. Look at the second picture and then find that reviewers review. She just exchanged tomatoes for stawberries.
You can also add fresh raspberries or strawberries and/or some blue cheese crumbles if you like blue cheese for a tangy taste, and you can also use a balsamic vinaigrette dressing as a substitute for the raspberry dressing
I’ve been making this almost exact salad for years. I add gorgenzolla (sp) cheese, toasted walnuts & mandarine oranges to this – YUM!
This is a wonderful basic salad. Open the fridge and add whatever you have on hand……strawberries and blueberries are great colorful additions, spinach leaves, walnuts…..pretty much anything goes.
Great flavor and texture!
I cooked such a bad dinner that only this salad saved the day. I used raisins instead of cranberries as that is what I had on hand.
Salad is always good. I often make one just like this. Any fruit vinegrette works great. I add some blue cheese and ham to make a wonderful salad. So yummy, you will want to eat it often with so many variations for a green salad.
This is the second time I made this salad. With a store salad dressing this recipe gets only 3 stars, but if you make your own raspberry dressing it is really nice. I omitted the tomatoes because I’m not big fan of it and added some walnuts.
This was a good salad but nothing that I would make again or crave. I thought it was too sweet. Maybe it was the raspberry walnut dressing I used. Newmans.
Wonderful salad. I don’t like tomatoes so I changed it up with strawberries instead. I liked all the different textures in this salad. I used a home made raspberry dressing. Thanks for the great recipe, this salad is so delish!
Guests seemed to really like it.