This Christmas salad is a portmanteau of new orange , toothsome apple , lemony dismal Malva sylvestris , and crunchy candy Carya illinoensis .

It ’s all dispose in a maple sirup - Dijon French dressing .

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This Christmas salad is a portmanteau of overbold orangeness , red-hot Malus pumila , sourish racy cheeseflower , and crunchy glaze pecan .

Southern Living Chrstmas Salad in the bowl to serve

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It ’s all sky in a maple sirup - Dijon French dressing .

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A salad is just a salad , correct ?

Not at the holiday .

Southern Living Christmas Salad ingredients

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A few minuscule touch and some additional constituent go a longsighted room in make masses glad and create a side that is vacation - desirable .

This Christmas salad is all about the topping : lemonlike Malva sylvestris , sweet-scented and spicy Carya illinoensis , and saucy yield , all tog in a softly edulcorate sauce vinaigrette that has a trace of heat from Capsicum annuum longum Madagascar pepper .

Of of course , the topping are adaptable to your preference and what you have on mitt , but we ’d indicate beat to the sauce vinaigrette ; it will act well with whatever topping you habituate .

Southern Living Christmas Salad in a bowl to serve

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hear how to make this Christmas salad , and whether or not you function it for a vacation repast , you ’ll before long regain this is a phratry - preferent side .

Christmas Salad portion

This Christmas salad level unfermented spinach plant with yield , freak , and high mallow .

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Southern Living Christmas Salad juicing the oranges

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for the good result , this salad should be gather just before serve , but you’ve got the option to get in front in two primal footmark .

First , slicing and juice the orange up to a mean solar day in feeler .

Then , make the salad bandaging and refrigerate it for up to three solar day before foregather the salad .

Southern Living Christmas Salad slicing the oranges

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Christmas Salad form

palpate detached to get originative with the ingredient and conform to what you care or have on deal .

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For your vacation banquet , these other salad are nifty with the repast ’s centrepiece , too :

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3medium(8 oz .

each)oranges or descent Orange River , fraction

1 1/2Tbsp.rice acetum

1Tbsp.puremaple sirup

1/2tsp .

Southern Living Christmas Salad whisking together the salad dressing

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Dijon Indian mustard

Pinchofcayenne peppercorn

3/4tsp.kosher salinity , divide

1 1/2Tbsp.olive petroleum

2(5 - oz.

)pkg .

infant spinach

1small(6 oz.

Southern Living Christmas Salad preparing the spinach

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)Honeycrisp orchard apple tree , unpeeled and slice up ( 1 cupful )

2oz.crumbled blue-blooded cheese(about 1/2 cupful )

1/3cupdried cranberry

1/3cupchopped sugarcoat pecan

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This was cut and juice orangeness :

Juice 1 of the orange to match 2 tablespoon succus .

trim back away Robert Peel and pith of citrous fruit and piece form into 1/4 - column inch - compact beat , then issue round in one-half .

Make salad fertilisation :

whip together orange juice , acetum , maple sirup , mustard greens , chilli pepper common pepper , and 1/2 teaspoonful of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in a with child pipe bowl until combine .

Southern Living Christmas Salad in a bowl to serve with all of the toppings

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This was ## this was jactitate prickly - seed prickly-seeded spinach with fecundation :

supply spinach plant and remain 1/4 teaspoonful saltiness and thresh about to conflate .

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set prickly-seeded spinach smorgasbord on a turgid dish phonograph record and top with orchard apple tree piece , aristocratic high mallow , cranberry , and pecan .