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This Waldorf Salad Recipe is the perfect salad to serve at the holidays or to a large crowd. Diced chicken, greens, apples, grapes, pomegranate seeds, walnuts, celery, pear and fresh herbs are served alongside a creamy dressing. Your guests will love this delicious fall and winter salad!
As the holidays approach I know a lot of us are looking for recipes to serve a crowd.
Today’s Waldorf Salad Recipe is one of those recipes.
I like to serve this salad in a deconstructed way with the ingredients on a large platter and let people create their own waldorf salad similar to this Cobb Salad Recipe.
I often will set out a few different types of salad dressings like balsamic, poppyseed and a creamy Italian for people to pick from.
One of my favorite things about a deconstructed salad is that people can pick and choose the ingredients they like in their salad.
You can give them a wide array to pick from and they can create their own salad.
Recipe Ingredients
See full list of simple ingredients below in recipe card with exact measurements.
- Greens
- Blue Cheese
- Chicken
- Pomegranate
- Pears
- Apples
- Grapes
- Celery
- Walnuts
- Dressing
Ways to Modify this Salad
- Beans: You can add beans to this salad or sub them in for the chicken to add protein. I like using chickpeas or white beans.
- Nuts: If you don’t want to use walnuts you could also use cashews, silvered almonds, pistachios, sesame seeds or pumpkin seeds.
- Cheese: I added blue cheese to this salad but there are a lot of great options. Some I really like are feta cheese, goat cheese, gorgonzola or mozzarella cheese.
- Greens: There are a lot of greens that work nicely in this salad. You could try kale, swiss chard, microgreens, romaine or a mixed greens blend.
- Vegetables: I don’t add a lot of vegetables to my waldorf salad but you easily can and they will taste great. Some that are nice include carrots, bell pepper, radish and onion.
- Fruit: This recipe uses dried cranberries which is nice in the fall and winter months and adds a great sweetness to the salad. Other dried fruit I like are raisins, apricots, figs and prunes. I also included pears, apples, pomegranate seeds and grapes in this salad. I also think that bananas, oranges, pineapple and mango would work nicely too.
Storage Tips
You can store the leftover salad in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
More Salad Recipes
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Mediterranean
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Waldorf Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 – 6 ounce greens, {I like spinach kale or arugula}
- 4 ounce blue cheese, crumbled
- 1 pound Chicken breasts , cooked, cooled and diced
- 1/2 cup pomegranate arils
- 2 pears, cored and diced
- 2 apples, cored and diced {I like to use one red and one green}
- 1 cup red grapes, halved
- 1 cup green grapes, halved
- 3 celery stalks, diced
- 2 Tablespoons chives, chopped
- 1/4 cup parsley, chopped
- 1/4 cup walnuts
- 1/4 cup pine nuts , {optional}
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise, or plain or Greek yogurt
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- Pinch freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- On a large platter arrange your ingredients starting with chicken, then the blue cheese, greens, apples, pears, grapes, celery, pomegranate seeds, walnuts and the parsley and chives on the outer edges.
- In a large mason jar or a salad dressing container mix together the salad dressing ingredients. Taste and add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve the salad on the platter with individual plates so people can construct their own salad and add dressing.
Notes
- I like adding chickpeas or white beans to the side.
- You can serve this with gorgonzola, feta cheese or goat cheese.
- You could add other types of fruit to this salad like berries or bananas.
- Aside from walnuts I like to add silvered almonds or cashews sometimes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Julia //A Cedar Spoon,
Do you season your chicken for This Waldorf Salad with anything besides salt & pepper? It all looks SO Good I can’t wait to make one!!! Happy Cooking!!!
Honestly anything works but I would stick to something light like salt, pepper and oregano along with olive oil or you could do lemon juice too. Enjoy!