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You’ll love this healthy, delicious Apple Pear Spring Salad Mix featuring crisp sweet apples, pears, mozzarella cheese, and cashews! Includes an easy to make homemade dressing that compliments this quick & easy salad that’s perfect any time of the year.

Apple Pear Spring Salad Mix

When Spring and Summer roll around, I tend to want to prepare more salads.

I enjoy the lighter meals, but also the very fresh ingredients I can grab at our local Farmer’s Market or HEB Supermarket.

We don’t like to eat the same meals over and over again, so I like to experiment and keep things fresh.

My BLT Salad, Healthy Grilled Chicken Salad and Snickers Apple Salad are big hits, and this Apple Pear Salad with Spring Salad Mix and Cashews is also a family favorite.

Spring Salad Mix Homemade Dressing Ingredients

• • ½ c. sugar   
  • ⅓ c. lemon juice
  • ½ c. red onion, finely chopped
  • 2 T. dijon mustard or brown mustard
  • ⅔ c. olive oil
  • 1 T. poppy seeds

Chop Spring Salad Mix and place in a large salad bowl.

Chop pears and apples.

Shred parmesan cheese and measure cashews.

Combine all dressing ingredients in a bowl or jar; mix and set aside.

Combine salad ingredients together in a large bowl.

Right before serving, pour dressing over salad and toss, coating the lettuce evenly.

Serve and enjoy!

What is in a Spring Salad Mix:

Typically, a Spring Salad Mix consists of up of 16 fresh greens and lettuces that may vary in tastes and textures. Often, it will include red romaine, baby spinach, radicchio, green romaine, red oak leaf, mizuna, red leaf, lollo rosso, arugula, red mustard, green mustard, red chard, frisee, and tatsoi.

I love a Spring Salad Mix, especially for lunch because the greens also have no cholesterol and very little sodium so they are considered heart-healthy. Greens are rich in nutrients, especially vitamin A, vitamin C, beta carotene, calcium, folate and dietary fiber.

Ways to customize your Apple Pear Spring Salad Mix:

Greens: Feel free to substitute or add in other salad greens such as romaine, spinach, kale, etc.

Dressing: Use the recipe included here, or substitute for a balsamic vinaigrette, honey mustard, etc.

Nuts: We prefer this with cashews, but pecans, walnuts, almonds, or peanuts would also work.

Fruit: Use additional varieties of apples or pears, consider adding fruits like strawberries, grapes, dried cherries, dried cranberries, etc.

Cheese: Feta crumbles or parmesan cheese are also favorite cheeses in this salad with our family. Goat cheese also works well.

Vegetables: Cucumbers, Diced Tomatoes

Add In’s: Sunflower Seeds, Pine Nuts, McCormick Crunchy Salad Toppings, Croutons, Olives, Chickpeas, and bacon bits.

Be sure to PRINT this Spring Salad Mix Recipe so you can make your own notes on it about how you personalized it!

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Yield: 8

Apple & Pear Spring Salad Mix

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

• Dressing:
• ½ c. sugar
• ⅓ c. lemon juice
• ½ c. red onion finely chopped
• 2 T. dijon mustard or brown mustard
• ⅔ c. olive oil
• 1 T. poppy seeds
• Salad:
• 2 5 oz. bags of Spring Mix Salad
• 4 oz. mozzarella cheese shredded
• 1 c. cashews whole or halves
• 1 crisp red apple diced
• 1 crisp pear diced

Instructions

Combine all dressing ingredients in a bowl or jar; mix and set aside.

Combine salad ingredients together in a large bowl.

Right before serving, pour dressing over salad and toss, coating the lettuce evenly.

Serve and enjoy!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 438Total Fat: 32gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 25gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 364mgCarbohydrates: 33gFiber: 3gSugar: 19gProtein: 8g

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Tips for preparing and Storing a Spring Salad Mix:

• Slice the apples and pears right before you serve it. Fruits can start to brown a bit where cut. 
• The dressing can be made a day or two ahead of time and chilled in the refrigerator until ready to use.
• Add the dressing to any salad just before serving so it won’t wilt the salad by sitting too long.
• Leftover ingredients should be stored separately in the refrigerator. Mixed salad doesn’t save well, it wilts. Use a container specific for storing salad ingredients to take for lunch the next day.
• Does not freeze well.

These are a few items I find helpful in my own kitchen when preparing this Apple Pear Salad Recipe:

Large salad bowl. Mixing bowls. 14Gorilla Grip Original Reversible Cutting Board (3-Piece) BPA Free, Dishwasher Safe, Juice Grooves, Larger Thicker Boards, Easy Grip Handle, Non Porous, Extra Large, Kitchen (Set of Three: Black)J.A. HENCKELS INTERNATIONAL 31161-201 CLASSIC Chef’s Knife, 8 Inch, BlackPrepworks by Progressive Ultimate 19-Piece Measuring Cups & Spoon SetOXO Good Grips Salad Dressing Shaker, BlackOXO Good Grips Salad Spinner, Large, ClearRaw Superfoods Salad Toppings Mix (Goji Berries, Raisins, Almonds, Chia, Flax, Pumpkin, Sesame and Sunflower Seeds) 24 ozFood52 Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad into Dinner (Food52 Works)OXO Good Grips Salad Chopper and BowlFit & Fresh Salad Shaker Reusable Plastic Container with Dressing Dispenser and Ice Pack, Healthy Lunch Box Set, 4-Cup Capacity, BPA-Free

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