Happy January! Don’t you just love starting a fresh new year? I’m looking forward to new beginnings starting with being extra mindful of what I eat, and scheduling my workouts so I don’t miss them! Choosing seasonal fruits and vegetables is a good way to improve a healthy eating plan, and you’ll be rewarded with high quality produce that’s packed with nutrition at a lower cost. Your taste buds will definitely thank you for it! This time of year, pears and pomegranates are in season and very delicious, so, I’m putting them together in this beautiful salad of amazing textures and colors!
Pear and Pomegranate Salad with Crumbled Gorgonzola
Ingredients:
8 oz baby spinach spring mix
2 Bosc Pears, cored and sliced
1 pomegranate, arils removed
¼ cup gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted
White Wine Vinaigrette:
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tbl white wine vinegar
1 tsp agave nectar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Arrange greens, pears, pomegranate arils, cheese and almonds on a platter or individual plates.
Place all vinaigrette ingredients in a salad dressing shaker or jar, and shake until well blended.
Drizzle dressing over salad.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 8 oz baby spinach spring mix
- 2 Bosc Pears, cored and sliced
- 1 pomegranate, arils removed
- ¼ cup gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
- ¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted
- White Wine Vinaigrette:
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbl white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp agave nectar
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Arrange greens, pears, pomegranate arils, cheese and almonds on a platter or individual plates.
- Place all vinaigrette ingredients in a salad dressing shaker or jar, and shake until well blended.
- Drizzle dressing over salad.
- Enjoy!
If you are a Pear and Pomegranate fan, then you are going to want to head over to Hilary’s site to check out her amazing Spiced Pear and Pomegranate Crostini. My mouth is watering just looking at her pictures!!! I asked her to box me up some of that, but since several thousands of miles away from Texas, it probably wouldn’t be any good once it got here. LOL So, I’m off to make some of this myself!! YUMMMMMM!
Taylor, This looks incredible and I can’t wait to make it. Thank you for sharing your recipe with us at Snickerdoodle Sunday! Pinning and tweeting to share!
~Laurie
This salad has all my favorite in it! Sadly I haven’t had any pomegranates lately so now I have an excuse to go get some!
This looks so delicious, pinned and saved! Visiting from the Link Party Palooza!
Yum! This salad looks wonderful! I can’t wait to try it:)
Nothing beats a salad with in season fruit and vegetables. YUM! Thanks for sharing on the Creative K Kids Tasty Tuesdays Linky Party. I hope you will join us again next week.
This is one gorgeous salad, and I am always looking forward to changing mine up! I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for bringing this by Throwback Thursday and we’re looking forward to next week’s post already! I’ll be pinning it to our board, so please follow us there! 🙂
This looks so good! I would love you to come share this at Smell Good Sunday!
love the colors of the salad so very pretty and I can imagine the taste is simply delicious
What a beautiful salad! Thanks for sharing on the What’s for Dinner Link up!
This salad looks delicious! I made one similar for the first time for our Christmas dinner and it was a hit but yours sounds even better. Pinning to bookmark and share because I must try your version.
What a great combination of flavors! Not only is this salad gorgeous, it sounds so delicious!!
That is a gorgeous salad!! I’m not a blue cheese lover, do you think crumbles feta would be an ok sub?
Looks delish! Printing it off to make this week!
It is so nice to see you sharing at the hop again. I pinned this yumminess Hugs!
This salad looks and sounds delicious! I love the combination of the sharp tangy gorgonzola and fruit! Thanks for sharing it with FF:)
A perfect and light January salad! I love pomegranate and pears, a great combination! 🙂
I could eat this every single day.
This salad looks amazing! Thanks for linkin’ up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
What a beautiful presentation for this fantastic salad. The combination of flavor for this salad is really one of my favorites for winter! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday.
Miz Helen
We love eating salads year round. Looks yummy. Thanks for joining us at the Inspiration Spotlight party. Pinned & shared.
Added this one to Yummly! I just love a good salad in winter sometimes (after a month of comfort food and sweets during the holidays lol), and this is perfect for the season. Thanks for sharing with us at Funtastic Friday!