Cranberry Pecan Salad

Submitted by Marc Austin

"A sweet but zesty salad with a unique twist of carmelized pecans. Try serving for brunch along with "Baked French Toast" and "Bacon and Onion Quiche""

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 (7 ounce) bag mixed greens
• 1 (6 ounce) bag dried cranberries
• 4 ounces of montrachet goat cheese, crumbled
• 1 (4 ounce) bag pecans
• 1⁄8 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1⁄4 cup olive oil
• 1 tablespoon jam or 1 tablespoon jelly (any flavor)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dried ginger
• 1⁄8 cup orange juice
• 2 tablespoons butter

directions

1. Start by carmelizing pecans.
2. Melt butter in pan.
3. Add brown sugar and stir unti mixture bubbles and doesn't appear to greasy or too dry.
4. Add pecans, stir and cook until well coated.
5. Place on cookie sheet to dry and cool.
6. Prepare the salad dressing.
7. Mix balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
8. Add jam, orange juice and ginger.
9. Put greens, cranberries, cheese and carmelized pecans in a salad bowl.
10. Toss with salad dressing and serve immediately.
11. Try serving for brunch along with"Baked French Toast" and"Bacon and Onion Quiche".

Reviews

[patti k.]

Lovely salad! The brown sugar on the pecans was great - I didn't even use the butter and carmelized with just a few tablespoons of the brown sugar. Thanks for posting!

 

[gwen stacy]

This salad is totally awesome! I had it twice in a three day period.

 

[Sarah in New York]

This salad is so good! I used monteray cheese instead of goat cheese and used homemade rasberry jam in the dressing. I did add a 2 tablespoons of sugar just because I thought it needed to be a little sweeter. Just personal preference. Thanks for a great salad!

 

[Colleen the Chef]

This salad was fantastic! I noticed the amount of brown sugar is missing from the ingredient list. I used 3 T. I also omitted the jam/jelly and dried ginger because I didn't have either in the pantry. I did use raspberry balsamic vinegar hoping it would be sweeter since I was out of jam and dried ginger. It was only thing on the buffet that was completed finished! Thank you!!!

 

[Pam-I-Am]

I had this with Thanksgiving dinner this year and it was such a nice addition! Everyone loved the sugared pecans on it. The dressing was a nice light flavor, I did add a pinch of salt to it though. I also had some croutons for people to add if they liked. I'm sure I'll be making this year round!