[I] take my salads very seriously. Similarly, I take my omelettes, sandwiches and daiquiris with equal reverence. I need to know the person making me an omelette and I prefer that they have a big floppy chef hat on (bonus). ย I need to shake the hand of the person making my sandwich before they put plastic gloves on and add extra black olives to my situation (thank you!). ย I like to know the middle name of the person making me a daiquiri… a fact I usually learn after the third of fourth daiquiri. ย All of this to say, I love when people make me food, and I really like to know who they are before I enjoy it.
Salads, though. ย I like to make my own salads. ย There’s a delicate balance of fruit and green, cream and crunch and nuts. ย Let’s try!
There’s a trick when it comes to eating (and really enjoying) a salad. It has to be pretty. I mean… if you’re going to trick me into eating raw parsley, it better be good lookin’.
Winter citrus will be our beauty. That’s not to say that parsley isn’t beautiful, but most things are prettier when a pink grapefruit is around. That’s science.
We’re working with a divine combination of Winter offerings: pink grapefruit, navel oranges, and blood oranges. I miss strawberries until I remember oranges are everything. All of the citrus! Not really, I’m missing the pomelo, but you get the idea.
Greens include thinly shredded romaine leaves, sharp and spicy fresh parsley, crunchy celery, and creamy avocado.
See? Look at our beauty. Juicy sweet citrus, crispy lettuce and celery, creamy avocado and a lemon vinaigrette, topped with salty roasted cashews. All of the textures to entice us into health! Happy day to you and me!
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All Of The Citrus and Some Of The Greens Salad
Description
The biggest and brightest Winter salad.
Ingredients
- 1 pink grapefruit
- 2 blood oranges
- 1 naval orange
- 4 cups, shredded romaine lettuce
- 1 stalk celery, sliced
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped flat leaf parsley
- 1 ripe avocado, peeled and sliced into cubes
- juice of half a lemon
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup very coarsely chopped salty roasted cashews
Instructions
- Slice all of the citrus. Cut the bottom and top of of each citrus fruit. Stand the fruit up on its bottom and slice down the fruit, removing all of the peel and as much of the pith as possible Once entirely peeled, turn the citrus on it’s side and slice into rounds. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, toss together lettuce, celery, parsley, half of the avocado, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and half of the cashews. Toss well.
- Arrange the citrus rounds on a round plate leaving space in the center of the plate for the greens. Add the tossed greens and garnish with the remaining avocado and cashew. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and enjoy!
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Mm I have to disagree about other people making my salad- I always prefer eating a salad made by someone else. I have no idea why. HOWEVER, you make amazing salads that I don’t mind making myself (except for all the chopping- chopping vegetables is not my thing and I hate cleaning the food processor. Alas.) I have made the celery, avocado, pomegranate, goat cheese, etc over and over this past month.
I’ve made this several times now, & it’s the best salad ever.
This salad was delicious! I added a little extra avocado and used a yellow grapefruit that I ended up picking out… no matter how hard I try to like grapefruit I just don’t. But I’ll keep on trying. I loved the pretty presentation of this salad and the addition of cashews.
Hi there.
This fruit salad looks amazing. I love avocado specially with lime and sugar hmmmm… I must try this combination of fruits. Do you think I shoud it it as a dessert or starter?
Mmm mmm, everything about this is goodness! There’s something about citrus at this time of year that I can’t get enough of – it’s just so refreshing!
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Made this tonight & it was delicious! I loved the cashews with the citrus.
Yum! Just had this for lunch minus the blood oranges as we just don’t have them in Central IL as far as I can tell. So delicous! Thanks for sharing. Love the site and the podcast!
Beautiful salad! I made it with what I had on had (romaine, one orange, dressed with orange juice from said orange plus splash cider vinegar, plus persian lime infused olive oil). It was fabulous, thank you for the inspiration!
This looks like the perfect New-Year-I-feel-bloated-salad. Can’t wait to try. Considering I’ve been eating my way through your ice cream recipes…I need this.
I love that you’re posting a salad recipe in winter. I must remember that when June rolls around. (I live in the land Down Under).
I have to try it! ;)
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Beautiful! What a healthy way to start the year!
Too pretty. Always forget that citrus is so good in the winter!
Perfect winter salad!
Looks incredible, and I totally agree – I must make my own salads! Love the gorgeous colours of the citrus!
Love the salad Joy, very colourful and fresh….will have to try this one, thank you!
I’m so excited to try this recipe. So inspirational!
Happy new year!
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Oh. Joy. You did it again! Love it.
I will be making this for my wife and I. Love the new print capability. Noticed that I selected for the image to appear, but it did not appear in the preview or the hardcopy. Print feature may need a little more tweaking.
After eating cookies and cheesecakes for breakfast every morning, this salad looks like the perfect reset button!
Ah! I go crazy for ruby red grapefruit. People make a big deal about produce in spring and summer but citrus and greens are sooo nice in winter.
Such a gorgeous salad – I’ve been all about the citrus the past few days!
This is so refreshing to see after the sea of sweet and sugary blog posts this holiday season!
Totally agree with pretty salads being a must. It is a lot of chopping and work so it better be pretty and worth it in the end! #saladtruthsfromjtb
Looks wonderful Joy! I love it!
I need this in my mouth.
Your are so spot on. I don’t like to buy anemic tomatoes during the winter, when our homegrown’s are all finished from summer. So, citrus makes a fantastic substitute, and paired with avocado…count me in. This is perfect, after our holiday food orgy. Well done.
I totally made a salad like this two weeks ago with all my leftovers — which happened to include clementines, avocado, and celery. Citrus + avocado = love. Toss on some dried cranberries and salty feta and it’s divine!
Just beautiful! It actually makes me want to eat a salad. That’s sayin’ something.
great! Have a happy new year :)
This looks amazing!! I love citrus flavors. Can’t wait to try it! :)
xo, Katy
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This looks delicious!! I love citrus flavors. Can’t wait to try it! :)
xo, Katy
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This looks so good! I’ve been on such a citrus binge lately, mostly grapefruit. Haven’t been able to find blood oranges yet. Adding avocado makes this the salad of my dreams. Well done!
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All delicious except for the celery. It’s the devil’s vegetable. I might need to grab all of the rest of the ingredients for lunch today. It’ll help balance out the pork belly I’m buying for tomorrow. Oops.
never oops to pork belly! and you should totally skip the celery if it makes you so mad. i get it.
This is SO gorgeous! I always look forward to your photos. Inspiring!
Gorgeous, Joy. I love the combo of citrus and avocado!
Totally gorgeous! I will not be making because I cannot make citrus look (peel, slice) like that if my life depends on it!! lol. I’ll just admire and open a jar of mixed citrus (sad I know).
you can totally do it! these slices just take a good sharp knife!
This looks so delicious! I need to get back into making and eating salads. You are totally on point regarding salads needing to be pretty to trick me into eating them! This looks like a tricky salad.
I think I would eat this every day if I could. I am certainly eating it today !
That citrus fruit and greens combo looks absolutely amazing. Something new for the new year!
I love citrus in my salad and you’re right, this does look beautiful! I’ll have to make this soon!
Perfect winter salad! Where are your gray plates from?
Thank you!
You definitely succeded in making this pretty. This salad is a stunner! Pinned!
Mmm this looks so healthy and colourful! Delicious!
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I’ve never gotten the bartender’s middle name but next time I won’t forget. I’m with you on salads. I’m particular about including more of the things I love and less of the things I don’t mind. This citrus salad is so lovely and those cashews say ‘I love you.’
That certainly beats the sad bowl of clementines I’ve been working through!
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Beautiful!
Have a great new year!
What a wonderful salad! Hopefully I will get the energy to prepare it because I have to admit although I like it to cook, I am mostly too lazy to prepare a salad. In this case I prefer it that others are doing this for me :)
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