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Asian Pear Salad

November 17, 2016 by Finite Foodie Leave a Comment

This recipe will make a large dinner salad for one person or a side salad for 2-3 people. It’s also easy to double or triple for a larger crowd if you’d like to serve it at a dinner party. This is lovely but still quite simple to do.

We like to serve this with our Avocado Orange Dressing, which makes enough for 6-8 salads. It’s also good with French Vinaigrette, in which case we like to add chopped avocado to the salad. If you can’t find an Asian pear, any crisp pear or apple, or even kohlrabi will do. Another option is to use a can of mandarin oranges instead.

 

Difficulty:
Easy!
Cost:
Moderate (for a salad)
Serves:2people
Serving Size:1-1/4 cups (about)
Asian Pear Salad
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This makes a main dish salad for one person or two sides. Our instructions are for layering the salad in one bowl. If you want to toss it first, place ingredients in a large bowl, toss, then transfer to serving bowl.
  • CourseSalads, Sandwiches
  • CuisineUnspecified
Tools:salad spinner (optional) knife and cutting board, serving bowl
Prep Time
10 minutes
Prep Time
10 minutes
Difficulty:
Easy!
Cost:
Moderate (for a salad)
Serves:2people
Serving Size:1-1/4 cups (about)
Asian Pear Salad
Votes: 1
Rating: 5
You:
Rate this recipe!
Print Recipe
Add to Meal Plan:
This recipe has been added to your Meal Plan
This makes a main dish salad for one person or two sides. Our instructions are for layering the salad in one bowl. If you want to toss it first, place ingredients in a large bowl, toss, then transfer to serving bowl.
  • CourseSalads, Sandwiches
  • CuisineUnspecified
Tools:salad spinner (optional) knife and cutting board, serving bowl
Prep Time
10 minutes
Prep Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
  • 2 cups salad greens (mild, like Bibb or mâche rosettes)
  • 1/4 cup red cabbage sliced
  • 1 small green onion
  • 1/2 Asian pear or other crisp pear or apple
  • 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts or roasted cashews
Servings: people
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Instructions
  1. Make Avocado Orange Dressing or French Vinaigrette.
  2. If not pre-rinsed, rinse and spin or pat-dry your lettuce greens. Tear into bite-size pieces and place in your serving bowl.
  3. Thinly slice red cabbage and the green top of the green onion. Sprinkle on top of lettuce.
  4. You can peel the pear or not, depending on how tough the peeling is. Cut your pear into quarters and cut out the core. Thinly slice one or two quarters crosswise, about 1/8-inch thick. Sprinkle on top of salad.
  5. Drizzle 1-2 tablespoons of dressing on top. Coarsely chop the walnuts or cashews and sprinkle over the salad.
Recipe Notes

See our recipes for Avocado Orange Dressing or French Vinaigrette.

VARIATIONS:

  1. In place of the Asian pear, substitute with any crisp pear or apple, kohlrabi, fennel or mandarin oranges.
  2. If using a vinaigrette, add chopped avocados to the salad.
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