Autumn Apple Salad with a Maple Vinaigrette will let you celebrate all the flavors of Fall! Pecans, cranberries, apples, feta and baby spinach all drizzled with an easy to make maple dijon vinaigrette!
Hey y’all! Has anyone else noticed I seem to be on a desserts kick lately? Maybe it’s just my skinny jeans feeling that way lately. I have to admit, I love Fall baking (is it even Fall yet?! Serious food blogger problems..) but sometimes I need a break from the brown sugar and pumpkin.
To keep feeling the Fall love though I decided to share a new favorite salad with you!
This salad is loaded up with apples, pecans, cranberries, some feta and of course…bacon!! I love my salads loaded up enough to make me feel full. Like this chili lime chicken salad I shared a few months ago, and this Antipasto Salad too!
Plus we’re going to drizzle this apple salad with some flavorful Maple Dijon Vinaigrette. There’s some extra virgin olive oil, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, dijon and salt and pepper in there. Super easy to toss into a jar, shake it up, and call it salad dressing.
This Autumn Apple Salad with Maple Vinaigrette is the perfect balance to all the pecan pie, pumpkin spice truffle, cinnamon blondie, fall cupcake times coming up!
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Autumn Apple Salad with a Maple Vinaigrette will let you celebrate all the flavors of Fall! Pecans, cranberries, apples, feta and baby spinach all drizzled with an easy to make maple dijon vinaigrette!
Ingredients
- 2 cups baby spinach
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup halved pecans
- 2 tablespoons feta cheese
- 1/2 granny smith apple sliced
- 1/2 fuji apple sliced
- 2 slices bacon cooked and chopped
Maple Dijon Vinaigrette
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add the spinach to a medium size bowl or plate.
- Top with dried cranberries, halved pecans, feta cheese, sliced apples, and cooked bacon.
- Add all the ingredients for the maple dijon vinaigrette to a small mason jar. Shake to mix. Pour over the salad. The dressing recipe makes enough for two salads.
Notes
Maple Vinaigrette recipe adapted from Martha Stewart.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 284
- Sodium: 190.5 mg
- Carbohydrates: 26.4 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 15.6 mg
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Melissa says
Quick question, I am so interested in making this salad to serve to my family on Thanksgiving, but I have not been one who has “branched” out to try cheese ie feta.
Do you have suggestions of what other type of “normal”ish type of cheese, or should I just omit the cheese all together?
Thanks for your advice
Serene says
Hi Melissa! I completely get you! I didn’t branch out into cheeses until recently when my husband convinced me 🙂 which is why I love feta so much because it’s not a very potent cheese flavor. BUT! I think cutting up some cubes of cheddar would be amazing in this salad. I love cheddar and apples together. And cheddar works well with pretty much everything. Let me know how it goes! xo
Kaye says
Love this autumn salad! I have made four times and will keep on making it while I have a good apple supply. love the bacon on it. Also found some Burnt Sugar Pecans at store and they really make this a special salad. You will impress your guests with this salad! Thank you!
Serene says
Those burnt sugar pecans sound amazing!! I need to go find some of those. And I’m so glad you enjoyed the salad 🙂 It’s one of our favorites too!
Melissa says
I am interested in making this for a larger group too…is there a converted recipe for a bigger serving size?
Serene says
The recipe will comfortably feed one person having this salad as a meal. If you’re looking to have it as a side salad it could probably feed about 3. How many people are you needing to feed? Just multiply the ingredients to make a larger batch. The most important thing is to make sure there is enough dressing. So if you need it for 10 people, just multiply the ingredients by 10. Hope that helps!
Christina says
I want to make this for Thanksgiving! Some of my family members do not like a spinach salad. Would a mix of spinach and romaine work in this recipe?
Serene says
Absolutely! You can swap out the spinach completely for Romaine if you prefer 🙂
Dee says
I making this salad for my family’s Thanksgiving tonight, with a couple of tweaks. I am using goat cheese, and I candied the pecans using bacon fat, brown sugar and a smudge of cayenne. Thanks for the inspiration!
Alecia says
I made this for Thanksgiving had to quadruple the recipe because my lovely family are pigs! I did 1/2 spinach and romaine it was delicious! I can honestly say it is the first time I have ever seen people fight over salad. Haha!
Serene says
That’s so fun!! I’m so glad it was a hit Alecia! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Carla says
So good! My 4 year old even kept asking for more spinach, and that’s saying a lot. The vinaigrette was delish. Will definitely keep this recipe in the box.
Serene says
Yay!! Love finding healthy foods that kids love!
Nicole says
OMG this was so amazing!! We ended up doubling the dressing recipe and ate seconds. We skipped the bacon (diet). I would totally make this again. Thank you.
★★★★★
Serene says
So glad you enjoyed!! One of my all time favorite salads!
Bridget says
Making this for a work pot luck next week! Is the maple syrup the sugary kind you put on pancakes, like Mrs. Buttersworth, or is it the “pure”/fancier and more expensive kind? I have both but I know they each have completely different tastes so I want to make sure my dressing tastes right 🙂
Serene says
Hi Bridget! I used the “fancy” maple syrup. If you’re making a large batch of the salad to take, keep in mind the dressing recipe is meant for 1, I can usually squeeze two salads out of the dressing, but you’ll want to make a larger amount for a potluck 🙂
Bridget says
Thanks! And yup, I’m just multiplying the whole recipe by 3. There will be lots of people attending and also a lot of food and I usually make too much so I think 3x should work 🙂 Anything extra I’ll just eat myself at home haha