Enjoy having fun tossing this salad, making your own homemade dressing, and enjoy it until the last bite. Honestly, it’s so good, that I need to come up with another salad recipe so that I can alternate. I’d would be so sad to grow old of this one…it’s just perfect!

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Heart Healthy Delicious Apple Salad

A delicious healthy salad that is irresistible. Customize to your liking, but I prefer the combination of blue cheese crumbles with apple slices, dried cranberries, and pecans, mixed in a dijon mustard vinaigrette. You just have to try it! Also, be sure to always use organic ingridients as it will make a huge difference in the taste of this dish.

Course Salad

Cuisine American

Keyword Apple, Healthy, Heart Healthy, Salad

Difficulty Level Easy

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 6 people

Equipment

• Mixing Bowl (Large)
• Salad Mixing Spoons
• Measuring Cups and Spoons
• Skillet
• Whisk

Ingredients

For Candied Pecans

• 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp Kosher Salt
• 2 tbsp Water
• 1 cup Pecans Organic

For Dressing

• 2 tbsp Rice Vinegar
• 1/2 tbsp Dijon Mustard
• 1/3 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1/2 Shallot Finely Chopped

For Salad

• 6 cups Mixed Greens Or substitute with Spinach
• 1 Apples Organic Honeycrisp or Fuji Apples
• 1/4 cup Crumbled Blue Cheese
• 1/4 cup Dried Cranberries Organic

Instructions

Candied Pecans

• Heat water, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a skillet over medium heat.
• Stir until sugar and cinnamon are dissolved
• Add pecans and toss until completely covered
• Simmer for 5 minutes until sticky and then remove from heat.
• Place candied pecans on parchment paper in a single layer and let cool. (Note: for any pecans you don't use, you can keep for up to 5-7 days).

Dressing

• Whisk together rice vinegar, shallot, dijon mustard, and olive oil in a glass bowl.

Salad

• Thinly slice apples to your preference.
• Combine mixed greens, sliced apples, candied pecans, crumbled blue cheese, and dried cranberries in a large bowl.
• Drizzle salad with dressing, toss, and serve immediately.

Notes

Serving Size:
This recipe yields 6 to 8 servings. For those looking to create a salad for 2 adults. We recommend to create the dressing and candied pecans as described above. For the salad itself, you can use half of the quantities listed. You can then keep the pecans and dressing in the refrigerator to create another salad later in the week.

Healthier Version:
For an even healthier version of this salad, skip the work of creating candied pecans and just use pecans, swap out mixed greens for spinach, and add chopped yellow or red onions.

Other Tip:
The important thing to follow in this recipe is the quantities listed for the salad ingredients. Add greens to your mixing bowl with all ingredients and toss. Add greens as needed to create a good balance between the cranberries, crumbled blue cheese, and pecans. Experiment with the balance to see what you like best. Refer to our photo for a good idea.

If you are interested in commonly used ingredients for Japanese dishes, read this post: A Guide to Japanese Cooking Ingredients

For other heart-healthy recipes, check out this page on Mayoclinic.com

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I love a dish like this colorful tuna salad that has many colors (but not artificial colors though.) because I can enjoy the beauty of the dish with my eyes and it makes me into a bright mood before I enjoy the taste of it. I feel like it could even be considered as a course meal itself as you enjoy the look first with your eyes, then enjoy it with your mouth next 🙂

One of the things I do and enjoy, when I make some dishes, is trying to make them look beautiful. To me, cooking is one of my artistic works. The biggest part of the art is when I serve on a plate and decorate the food I just finished making, but it’s not only that and there are many other parts to enjoy the artistic sides along the whole process of cooking dishes. I’m often mesmerized by the beauty of the natural colors of food like vegetables and fruits.

All the colors are pretty and they look beautiful! Do you agree?

Colorful Tuna Salad

So this night, I was really excited when I made this colorful tuna salad as I was cutting all the ingredients which were avocado, onion, yellow paprika, and red paprika while I was feeling like I was getting all the bright energy from all the beautiful vivid colors of them. It was really fun as well to see each color were getting layered one by one on top of other colors when they were being served on the plate.

I love this dish because it checks so many boxes off as it gives you extra fun when you are preparing, has the beautiful combination of all the colors for your eyes to enjoy, it also tastes really good when all the ingredients are mixed together with the dressing in your mouth, and furthermore, it gives you all the different vitamins and other important nutrients such as vitamin C, iron, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, magnesium, calcium, omega 3, protein, etc.

Yummy to your eyes and also to your mouth💗
It’s perfect, isn’t it?! 😁
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Futako Tamagawa is one of the cities that has dramatically changed over the years, and it now quite a sophisticated city that people enjoy visiting. As the area has grown, the Ron Herman brand decided to open one of their cafe locations, to match the style and people now visiting the area.

Since I wanted to have something that is not only healthy but also tasty, I decided to try their Roast Chicken Mexican Cobb Salad. As you can see in the picture, all the colors of the dish made me excited to eat it, and as I expected it was very delicious and also filled my stomach quite well.

I always love food that’s delicious for both eyes and mouth, because I believe food is an enjoyable thing both visually and tastefully.

I would like to go back and try their pancakes, while sitting on the outdoor wooden deck, while enjoying conversation with my friends over brunch.

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Pork is healthy for you, because it has the nutritional value that heals your tiredness, so I love the combination of this with so many green vegetables. This is well kept secret of the Okinawan people. You know they live for a very long time right? 😉 They love pork.

This Cold Pork Shabu Shabu is completed with this Goma sesame dressing. This dressing goes really well with pork and chicken as well as most of the vegetables. If you are interested in the dressing, here is the recipe:

Japanese Goma Sesame Dressing

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