With roasted sweet potatoes, apples, pears, romaine, kale and sherry vinaigrette, this autumn chopped salad is all about the best flavors of fall.
I’ve never met a chopped salad I didn’t like or pretty much love. What’s there not to get excited about when everything is cut into perfect fork-sized bites?
A good chopped salad packs in A LOT of things into a single bowl. Embrace the ingredient list because it will be worth it. Trust me.
Chopped might be my favorite way to eat a salad. I like changing up the ingredients depending on my season or mood.
So it seems like just the right time to revisit this version of a fall chopped salad. It is great for lunch or dinner on any day, but what I love about it is that it’s worthy of special meals like Thanksgiving.
Because so many fruits and veggies are in season right now, I think you are obligated to find a way to use both.
That’s why I include sweet potatoes, apples and pears in this salad. Of course, I roast the sweet potatoes, and I leave the apples and pears raw, just dicing them.
The best fall salads have an assortment of tastes and textures from savory to sweet. Then they have extras like crumbled blue cheese for a pop. The interior designer in me would say this strong cheese is like an accent color or accessory. When you see it with everything else, you realize what you were missing.
Don’t call it indecision. I use two kinds of greens in the salad. Romaine hearts are the lighter green, more yellow inner leaves of a head of romaine. Most often you see them in Caesar salads.
To go with the romaine hearts, I chop lacinato kale. The bitter dark green leaves are a sturdy base for the weight of the sweet potatoes, apples and pears.
Hearts of romaine are a touch sweet, so they balance out the bitterness of the kale.
These are the ingredients for this fall salad:
If you want to turn this into an entrée salad by adding a protein, try shredded rotisserie chicken or even leftover turkey.
To keep the salad vegetarian, you can include a chopped hard-boiled egg.
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With roasted sweet potatoes, apples, pears, romaine, kale and sherry vinaigrette, this autumn chopped salad is all about the best flavors of fall.
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Looks delicious.can’t wait to try them. Thanks