Blood Orange Salad with Goat Cheese and Pecans
Blood Oranges are so unique in colour and flavour. Topped with goat cheese and pecans (or feta and pepitas) this will be your new favourite winter salad. You can use a variety of oranges to add a nice variety to this blood orange salad.
More salads with orange: Blood Orange Tangerine Salad, Orange & Mint Salad, Orange Fennel Salad, Orange Celery Salad, Orange & Wheat Salad with Maple Vinaigrette, Fresh Citrus Salad.
Can you identify the three types of oranges used in this salad?
I love citrus season and the variety of oranges, limes, lemons, grapefruits and pomelos available in the produce aisle. If you’re not sure about the difference between a tangelo, Moro or Cara Cara style orange, check out this article on 5 Citrus Varieties.
We’ve been eating citrus morning noon and night at our house! Here’s one of our favourite salad recipes. Add interest, colour and a little bit of fun to your salad by using different orange varieties, different nuts or seeds, adding grains or different sources of protein. Which one do you like best?
Blood Orange Salad with Goat Cheese & Pecans Recipe
Blood Orange Salad
Ingredients
- 6 to 8 cups Salad greens
- 1 blood orange
- 1 tangerine or Cara Cara orange
- 1 navel orange
- ½ cup Orange Honey Glazed Pecans walnuts or pepitas
- ¼ cup crumbled goat cheese or Feta
Vinaigrette
- 1/3 cup Canola Oil
- 2 Tbsp White Wine Vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 1 Tbsp Orange Juice Concentrate
- 1 tsp Dijon Mustard
- 1 Tbsp Honey
- 1/4 tsp salt
- dash back pepper
Instructions
- Wash and dry salad greens. Dark leafy greens are particularly good for this salad.
- Peel oranges with a knife to remove all the pith. To do so, cut a slice off the top and bottom of the whole orange. Place on cutting board and run a sharp knife between the peel and the flesh of the orange from the top to the bottom all around the orange.
- Make vinaigrette by pouring all ingredients in a screw top jar and shaking vigorously. Taste and adjust to your liking.
- Toss salad greens with vinaigrette (you may not need all the vinaigrette).
- Add orange pieces to salad.
- Top with pecans and goat cheese.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
I hope you love this blood orange salad as much as we do. Of course if you have difficulty finding different orange varieties, no problem! Use whatever citrus you can find. You can even use canned mandarin oranges.
Let me know how it turns out for you.
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