Crunchy apples and celery, healthy green spinach, and tart dried cherries drizzled with honey and orange juice for an flavorful and healthy personal salad.
I love discovering and exploring new combinations of goodness for salads. This cherry apple spinach salad is a perfect salad combination. With the first bite, I was like hmmmmmmmmm…., this is amazing goodness.
I often am eating lunch at home and then leaving for work. It has become quite the pleasant experience. You see I work at a photography studio and for some strange reason January and February become slow. Slow enough that I can work part-time which I am loving. I spend my mornings exercising, doing housework, gardening, baking or cooking, and an occasional craft or sewing project. I have started to throw in a weekly morning adventure too. Quite frankly I am having fun. If you want to see or read about some of my recent morning adventures you can check it out here at my personal blog “Musings of My Mind.”
But this slower pace allows for me to create and make a refreshing easy lunch most days. And when I do take the time for lunch I really want something healthy, something delicious, something creative. That’s where this cherry apple spinach salad came in. I tweaked a recipe I found on Grain Crazy. Everything came together in a crunchy apple, sweet citrus, tart cherry, healthy spinach and celery goodness.
Cherry Apple Spinach Salad
Ingredients
- 1 crunchy apple (I used Pink Lady - cut into bite sizes)
- 1 stalk celery (diced)
- 1/4 cup dried cherries
- 2 cups spinach leaves (washed)
- 1/2 to 1 orange juice (fresh squeezed)
- 1 TBS honey
Instructions
- In a medium bowl or on a salad plate spread the spinach leaves
- Top with the cut apples, diced celery, and dried cherry pieces
- Squeeze the orange juice over the top
- Drizzle with the honey
- You can either mix and then eat the salad or just dig in as is
Enjoy this healthy salad for a delicious lunch! What foods do you love to create?
Sandra @ A Dash of Sanity says
This salad looks absolutely fabulous! I’ve always loved adding apples to salads but never really thought about adding cherries. Great idea! Pinning, Yummy and Stumbling! 🙂
Ellen Garrett says
Thank Sandra. It is all really amazing delicious together. I hope you like it.
Kathleen says
Wow! This looks like an amazing salad!
Ellen Garrett says
Thanks, I hope you like it too.
martha@ simple-nourished-living says
Hi Ellen,
Like you I love to create in the kitchen. Two of my favorite things to make and eat are homemade soups and salads. Just this week I’ve made two salads that both and my husband went crazy for. The first one combined romaine, a juicy pear, shredded aged cheddar cheese, craisins and sliced almonds. The next was romaine, avocado, blood orange, craisins and sliced almonds. For both I used Briana’s Blush Vinaigrette dressing, one of my favorites to keep on had when it feels like too much work to make my own. I’m adding spinach, apples, celery, and dried cherries to my list of combinations to try. Thanks for the inspiration!
Ellen Garrett says
Your salads sound perfect, I am going to have to put together those combinations. I have not tried the Blush Vinaigrette but next time at the store I am going to have to pick some up I believe.Thanks for visiting the site.
Lydia @ Suitcase Foodist says
I always crave a good salad in the heart of winter.
Ellen Garrett says
I know right. It can remind us of summer.