How to Make Apple Walnut Green Salad

Apple Walnut Salad

Green salads are a refreshing vegetable dish. Mixed with apple and walnuts, the salad becomes a special garden dish or taste-tempting appetizer. You can prepare this nutritious salad easily in minutes.

Things You'll Need

• 2 large salad or soup bowls
• 4 cups chopped lettuce or salad greens
• 1 apple
• ½ cup walnuts
• Knife
• Forks
• Salad dressing

Instructions

1. Loosely dump 2 cups of chilled chopped salad greens in each bowl. Salad greens should be fresh and crisp. Lettuce, romaine, carrot and spring greens all go well with apple.

2. ROAST the walnuts for a mellow toasty flavor. Put the half-cup of walnuts in a microwave dish. Microwave them for 90 seconds and let them cool.

3. 

   WASH and cut the unpeeled apple, any variety, into quarters. Remove the core or seed center from the quarters. Slice the quarters directly into the salad in smaller pieces. About half the apple should go in each salad.

4. BREAK the roasted walnuts into smaller pieces and sprinkle over the salad. Lightly fork the salad to distribute the apples and walnuts over the greens. Do not toss the salad as the heavier apple bits will sink to the bottom of the bowl.

5. SERVE immediately with salad dressing. Optional toppings include croûtons, bacon bits or fresh rosemary leaves. This recipe makes 2 large salads or 4 small dinner salads. It can also be divided for 12 small salad plates as side dishes or appetizers to a main meal.

Tips & Warnings

• Tip: Creamy or vinaigrette dressings are ideal with this salad.