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Salad with Pear Vinaigrette

Published: Apr 16, 2014 · Modified: Feb 4, 2020 by Katie · This post may contain affiliate links

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Today, we have Liz from Books n’ Cooks sharing a recipe for Salad with Pear Vinaigrette. Liz and I met in real life 2 years ago at Mixed.

Salad with Pear Vinaigrette from Books n' Cooks on KatiesCucina.com

Hello Katie’s Cucina readers!

I’m Liz from Books n’ Cooks. I first met Katie and discovered her blog a couple of years ago, at a foodie conference we attended together. I am usually a bit quiet when I meet new people, but it was easy to open up and chat with Katie, and not just because we have a love of food in common. Katie has an infectious bubbly personality and I immediately liked her. I’ve enjoyed reading Katie’s blog over the past few years, so I was flattered when Katie asked me to guest post while she’s enjoying her maternity leave.

Salad with Pear Vinaigrette from Books n' Cooks on KatiesCucina.com

Earlier this year, I was asked to bring salad to our semi-monthly book club dinner. I was looking forward to having a low maintenance contribution considering how busy my weekends have been lately, but I didn’t want low maintenance to mean boring. Enter: this salad. It felt appropriate to me – with wintery pears and summery blueberries fitting the 60 degree weather in February and March (well, 60 degrees on those weeks where we didn’t have snowstorms). The fresh and dried fruit make the salad super flavorful and visually stunning. It was anything except boring.

Adapted from Prevention RD

Salad with Pear Vinaigrette

Today, we have Liz from Books n' Cooks sharing a recipe for Salad with Pear Vinaigrette.
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Course: Salad
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 522kcal
Author: Katie

Ingredients

Ingredients for the Vinaigrette:

  • ¼ a pear roughly chopped
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 Tbs. dried cranberries
  • ¼ tsp. kosher salt
  • pinch of freshly ground black pepper
  • ⅓ c. extra-virgin olive oil
  • ⅓ c. apple cider vinegar

Ingredients for the Salad:

  • 5 oz. your favorite lettuce or salad green
  • ¾ a pear finely sliced or chopped
  • 1 c. fresh blueberries
  • ⅓ c. dried cranberries
  • ½ c. walnut pieces toasted

Instructions

  • In a food processor, pulse pear, garlic, cranberries, salt and pepper briefly. With the mixer running, add vinegar and olive oil until smooth. Add equal portions of additional olive oil and vinegar until desired consistency. Vinaigrette will keep for about a week in the fridge.
  • Toss all salad ingredients, except the walnuts. Add walnuts just before serving.

Notes

Try using this dressing as a chicken marinade.

Nutrition

Calories: 522kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 40g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 133mg | Potassium: 303mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 435IU | Vitamin C: 16mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 2mg
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Katie is a busy mom of 2 children who loves to feed her family delicious meals that don't take hours to cook! She started her blog 15 years ago as a way to help others get cooking in the kitchen.

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  1. Jen

    April 17, 2014 at 11:33 am

    That dressing sounds good enough to just drink!

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  2. John@Kitchen Riffs

    April 16, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    Wow, what a great salad! Love the flavors in this — so nice. And so timely, because we’re definitely getting into salad season. Thanks so much.

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  3. Christine from Cook the Story

    April 16, 2014 at 9:11 am

    This salad is gorgeous, Liz, and it looks delicious!

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