Citrus Apple Tossed Salad
Oranges, apples, grapes and grapefruit are featured in this healthy and delicious recipe. It includes croutons and small cubes of cream cheese on top, and has a tasty chive salad dressing that makes the salad come together very well. If you enjoy grapefruit and oranges, this is a great way to include them in your daily diet.
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Earlier in the winter we had been given some grapefruit by a neighbor. I started looking for recipes and ways to use up the grapefruit in some of my old Taste of Home cookbooks. I stumbled upon this recipe and decided to give it a try. Citrus Apple Tossed Salad is full of different textures and tastes. Some sweet, some tart, some savory! Regardless, this is a great way to enjoy Tossed Salad and if you have some grapefruit or oranges that need to be used up, why not try them in a salad?
I hosted a Ladies’ Salad Luncheon for our community group over Spring Break. I made up a Peachy Berry Tossed Salad, Chunky Maple Applesauce and this Citrus Apple Tossed Salad. All the other ladies brought salads or dessert. It was fun trying out all those different salads. While this salad is certainly good with the salad dressing recipe provided here, it’s also delicious with a sweeter dressing. We tried it both ways and enjoyed it both ways! 🙂
I made a few changes to the original recipe by adding celery, cucumber and red grapes. I also did not add as many chives as were called for in the salad dressing. I thought the amount given was overkill. We liked it well enough with the changes I made. If you enjoy tossed salads with fruit, this one is a dandy.
Citrus Apple Tossed Salad is crunchy and delicious.
The salad dressing includes chives which spice up the salad a little.
Apples and citrus pair really well together. A little bit of sweet with a little bit of tart.
We enjoyed every bite!
Here’s what I did.
I used these ingredients for the salad.
Place salad greens or spring mix in a large salad bowl.
Add cucumber.
Add celery.
Add green grapes.
Add red grapes.
Add orange segments.
Add grapefruit segments.
Slice apples and swish in lemon juice.
Drain apple slices on paper towels.
Add apple slices. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
I used these ingredients for the salad dressing and to garnish the salad.
Pour avocado oil into a mason jar or salad dispenser. Add lemon juice.
Add honey.
Add sea salt and paprika.
Chop up chives on a cutting board.
Add chives.
Add chives and stir and shake well.
Add croutons and cream cheese cubes to salad and serve!
Toss salad with dressing or serve dressing over individual salad plates.
Citrus Apple Tossed Salad is a delectable recipe to add to your Ladies’ Luncheon menus!
Here the salad has been tossed with dressing.
We liked this salad with the chive dressing that came with the original recipe. But we also enjoyed it with sweeter dressings too.
Here’s the recipe.
CITRUS APPLE TOSSED SALAD
(Recipe adapted from Taste of Home, Quick Cooking, 2002, pg. 292)
Citrus Apple Tossed Salad
Equipment
- 1 large salad bowl
- 1 sharp knife to cut fruit
- 1 cutting board
- 1 mason jar with lid for salad dressing
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
Ingredients
TOSSED SALAD:
- 8 cups salad greens torn (or spring mix)
- 3 medium navel oranges peeled and sectioned
- 1 large pink grapefruit peeled and sectioned
- 2 medium red apples thinly sliced
- 1 medium cucumber washed, sliced and quartered
- 1 rib celery diced
- 1/2 cup green grapes halved
- 1/2 cup red grapes halved
CHIVE DRESSING:
- 1/3 cup avocado oil
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1 tbsp. snipped chives original recipe called for 1/4 cup
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp. paprika
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 cup cream cheese cubes (optional)
- 1/2 cup salad croutons (optional)
Instructions
TOSSED SALAD:
- In a salad bowl, combine greens, oranges, apples, grapefruit, cucumber, celery and grapes.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.Â
CHIVE DRESSING:
- In a mason jar with a tight-fitting lid, whisk avocado oil, lemon juice, chives, honey, paprika and salt.
- Toss over salad when ready to serve.
- Garnish with cream cheese cubes and salad croutons before serving.Â
Notes
Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.
 NOTE: Taste of Home no longer has a search engine that allows you to search recipes by title. Most of the time, you have to weed through thousands of recipes in collections. If any link is to be found, I find direct links through google, not their own website. I could not locate a direct page for this recipe. But it is in the cookbook noted above. © Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen
Nutrition
Croutons and Cream cheese add marvelous contrast to the citrus in the recipe.
The Honey Lemon Dressing includes chives adding a splash of bite to the recipe.
Citrus Apple Tossed Salad is really crunchy! In fact, it has so many different textures it’s vastly pleasing to the palate.
This Tossed Salad with Fruit is naturally gluten free. If you need to keep it vegan, then skip the cream cheese on top.
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