Easy Walnut Cranberry Orange Salad

This Easy Walnut Cranberry Orange Salad is my new favorite! It is FULL of texture and drizzled with a sweet light dressing! Vegan + Gluten Free! 

Let me tell you, this salad is totally delicious it has so many textures and flavors going on but my favorite part is the dressing!!! It’s a little sour but sweet at the same time and it goes perfectly with this salad.

First this is how I feel about salads, less is more.  What does that mean?   I really like to keep salads simple so you can actually taste all the flavors in there, sometimes when you put too much toppings on a salad you can’t really appreciate the flavors and it just all ends up being a bit of a mush!

Of course like always, everyone has their own preference’s but this is mine! 😉

I obviously like to start with the lettuce, I like spring mix the most but I will switch it up from time to time.  Then I like to pick 3-5 things to put on top before the dressing, in this Easy Walnut Cranberry Orange Salad I chose the three things in the title! 😉

Walnuts give it a crunch as well as a “filling” aspect to it, the dried cranberries give it a sweet and chewy component and the orange makes it juicy and sweet but also provides a little more juiciness to the salad.

For the dressing! I really love this dressing I can’t wait to try it out on different salad combo’s but for this particular salad it was perfect! Nick and I don’t agree on the amount of dressing though, he likes his salads drenched in dressing and I like a light coating soooo with that being said I provided 2 different options for the dressing. (two different serving sizes, basically the same dressing but the second one is a bigger portion)

I started with an olive oil base and sweetened and flavored it with lemon, Dijon mustard, and some onion powder! Simple but packs a sweet sour punch!

I can’t wait for you to try it and let me know what you think! And which serving size did you prefer for the dressing???

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Easy Walnut Cranberry Orange Salad

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Easy Walnut Cranberry Orange Salad

• Author: TwoRaspberries
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 15 mins
• Yield: 2 1x
• Category: Salad

Ingredients

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• 4-5 cups of spring mix lettuce
• ¼ cup dried cranberries
• ⅓ cup roughly chopped walnuts
• 1 large orange sliced into wedges or pieces
• Dressing:
• Option 1/ smaller portion:
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Juice from ¼ of a lemon
• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• ½ tsp onion powder
• Pinch of salt/pepper
• Option 2/ bigger portion:
• 2 ½ tbsp. olive oil
• Juicy from ⅓ of a lemon
• 2 tsp Dijon mustard
• ¾ tsp onion powder
• Pinch of salt/pepper

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Instructions

1. add all your salad to a big bowl and add toppings
2. prepare dressing in a separate small bowl and drizzle right before eating
3. if saving part of the salad then keep dressing in a separate container and top before eating!

sweet + chewy + crunchy = salad LOVE