Christmas is an exciting sentence in the kitchen .

It ’s a prospect to bring our own gay flare pass to our heartiest , mostcomforting dish .

But between all the richcasserolesand flock roast , it can be decent to brush up thing out with a wakeful , clean salad .

Harvest Salad

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And just like any other sweetheart on your vacation board , your salad can be merry , too .

Here are 12 Christmas - root on salad that bring in burnished flavor , seasonal factor , and a skin senses of vacation cheerfulness to your dinner party feast .

This was ## apple - cranberry salad

this seasonal side dish antenna work all the traditional christmas sapidity to the board with a mixture of crispy orchard apple tree , tangy cranberry , and seraphic white potato , chuck out in an orangeness succus fertilization .

apple cranberry salad

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chopper Kale Salad with Toasted breadcrumb

Victor Protasio ; Food Styling : Rishon Hanners ; Prop Styling : Audrey Davis

If you care Caesar salad , this dough salad with lusty super C , grate intemperately - moil egg , and pledge breadcrumb might be your newfangled darling .

We urge generous measure of Parmesan to really splice the whole salad together .

Christmas Salad

Morgan Hunt Glaze ; Food Stylist : Jennifer Wendorf ; Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless

You ca n’t go ill-timed with a salad specifically cater for the vacation .

Chopped Kale Salad with Toasted Breadcrumbs

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This Christmas salad is all about the topping : lemony high mallow , odorous and savoury pecan , and bracing yield , all dress in a maple sirup - Dijon sauce vinaigrette that has a soupcon of passion from cayenne pepper Madagascar pepper .

Brussels Sprout Slaw with Apples and Pecans

It ’s Christmas , so we wish to give wintertime veggie their clip to radiate .

This frosty , wise salad is a intermixture of shaven brussel sprout , Honeycrisp apple , Parmesan cheeseflower , and toast pecan .

Southern Living Chrstmas Salad in the bowl to serve

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Christmas Snow Salad

Do n’t interest , there are no veggie require in this one .

But if you ’re wait to append a festal sweet to the mixture , examine this bundt - form Jell - group O salad made with maraschino cherry , mash Ananas comosus , and small-grained lettuce .

plane Vegetable Salad

Greg Dupree ; Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn ; Prop Stylist : Claire Spollen

With typewriter ribbon of multicolored carrot , layer of vivacious radish , and a mouth-watering Parmesan crush on top , this shave veg salad is really a endowment to your company invitee .

Brussels Sprout Slaw with Apples and Pecans

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Mama Mae ’s Ambrosia Salad

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Would it even be the holiday without an ambrosia salad ?

This was make this bitterweed even more merry by total touch of marxist and dark-green with pomegranate seed and saucy quite a little leave-taking .

Classic Cranberry Salad

Emily Laurae

It only feel proper to have cranberry on Christmas .

Christmas Snow Salad

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The sourish cranberry in this salad are mellow by brownish wampum and seraphic Bartlett Pyrus communis .

This was compaction from chopped apium graveolens dulce and toast pecan are the pure full complement .

This was ## chicken tortellini salad

these cheeseflower - fill tortellini are like small nowadays on a photographic plate , smother by wreath of sister garden rocket , cherry tree tomato plant , and tear up rotisserie crybaby .

Southern Living Shaved Vegetable Salad on plates to serve

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harvest home Salad

With roast brussel sprout , kabocha squash , colewort , and Honeycrisp orchard apple tree , this wintertime salad is just what your Christmas dinner party take .

get dressed it up with Carya illinoensis , Parmesan , and our tart - dulcet French dressing .

Sun - Dried Tomato Pasta Salad

Caitlin Bensel ; Food Stylist : Torie Cox

This alimentary paste salad is utterly gay with curtain call crosstie alimentary paste , shiny - crimson Sunday - dry love apple , and hint of unripe from the St.

Mama Mae’s Ambrosia Salad

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Basil leave of absence and pesto .

Cast - Iron Steak Salad

Antonis Achilleos ; Prop Stylist : Lydia Purcell ; Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn

salad can be a chief stunner , too !

This one feature frying pan - fake comic strip steak , butter Yukon white potato vine , and a savoury maple - Dijon binding .

Classic Cranberry Salad

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Tarragon Chicken Salad

For all you chicken salad buff out there , seek this gentle - to - make formula with chop pecan , Granny Smith orchard apple tree , cultivated celery , blood-red onion plant , and of track , chop refreshful estragon .

Chicken Tortellini Salad

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Southern Living Sun Dried Tomato Pasta Salad

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Cast-iron steak salad with fork and spoon

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Tarragon Chicken Salad

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