BEST Apple Walnut Salad ​

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serves 4
This delicious apple walnut salad is loaded with crisp apple slices, toasted walnuts, and crumbled feta. It's topped off with an amazing homemade honey mustard vinaigrette.
Ingredients
​Apple and Walnut Salad:

• 3/4 cup raw walnuts
• 1/2 small red onion (thinly sliced into half moons)
• 1 medium head chopped red leaf or romaine lettuce (washed and dried)
• 1 medium apple (cored and thinly sliced, Gala and Granny Smith are my favorites for this recipe)
• 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese

Honey Mustard Dressing:

• 2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 2 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 Tablespoons white wine vinegar (apple cider vinegar and freshly squeezed lemon juice also work)
• 1 Tablespoon honey (plus more if you like it sweeter)
• 1 small garlic clove (minced or pressed, 1/2 medium clove also works)
• 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt (plus more to taste)
• Freshly cracked black pepper (to taste)

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Preparation​​​​
​Honey Mustard Dressing:

1. Add all the dressing ingredients to a small bowl, and whisk until combined. Taste and adjust to your preference.

Apple Walnut Salad:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. Thinly slice the red onion into half moon slices and then submerge the onion slices in a medium sized bowl of ice cold water. Let the onions soak in the water until it’s time to assemble the rest of the salad (about 20 minutes of soaking is generally the perfect amount of time). Soaking the onions allows the pungent onion flavor to dissipate into the water.
3. Roughly chop the walnuts and bake for 6-8 minutes, or until toasted. Be sure to keep an eye on them, because nuts go from toasted to burnt quickly. When you remove the nuts from the oven, transfer them to a dish (they’ll keep cooking if you leave them on the hot baking sheet).
4. Wash and dry the lettuce using a salad spinner. Place the lettuce in an extra large mixing bowl.
5. Wash, dry, and cut the apple into cubes. Add to the mixing bowl.
6. Add the toasted walnuts, soaked onions, and crumbled feta to the mixing bowl. Top with as much dressing as you want, and toss to combine.

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