Creamy goat cheese, sweet dried apples, and toasted pecans come together beautifully with fresh spicy arugula in this deliciously satisfying Apple and Goat Cheese Arugula Salad.
The other day I was reminiscing with my sister about our favorite orders at restaurants as kids. She loved her potato skins or mozzarella sticks. Over on my end of the table it was either plain buttered pasta, shrimp scampi or fish and chips, you know, beautiful hues of browns and yellows.
As a kid, salads were boring things that boring adults would eat when they didn’t want to have any fun. Oh how times have changed. Fast forward 12 years and I pretty much eat a salad every day.
Salads get a bad reputation. Restaurants either neglect them and opt for bland garden salads that have no flavor or they load them up with crazy amounts of cheeses and dressings.
Luckily it looks like salads are making a bit of a resurgence with places like Sweet Green and Chop’t. I’m such a big fan of adding protein, healthy fat and grains to salads to transform them into easy, delicious, satisfying meals that are also packed with veggies.
This salad is pretty much all of my favorite things in a bowl. The spicy arugula pairs so well with the creamy goat cheese, sweet dried apples and crunchy pecans. Farro grains and homemade tahini dressing (click the link for the recipe) tie everything together. This salad isn’t going to leave you hungry or stuffed, just the right amount of satisfaction you’re looking for from a lunch or dinner. This is recipe is on my regular rotation and once you try it, I think you’ll be adding it to yours too!
- 3 Cups of Arugula
- 1/2 Cup of Cooked Farro Grains
- 1 1/2 oz of Goat Cheese
- 1 Cup of Dried Apples
- 1/2 Cup of Toasted Pecan Pieces
- 2 Tbsp of Tahini Dressing
- Toss ingredients into a large salad bowl
- Add dressing
- Toss Salad
- Divide into two bowls
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Your Turn:
- What was your favorite order as a kid?
- What’s your favorite type of salad green?
This combination sounds incredible! Love love love arugula and dried apples, and I’m sure the textures are amazing together.
When I was a kid, I was all about the mozzarella sticks. Yummm!
Let’s be real, if I’ve had a couple drinks I wouldn’t turn down a mozzarella stick 😉
This looks WAY better than any garden salad. Love apple and goat cheese way too much–pinning 🙂
Don’t they make the perfect couple? #ApplesforPromQueen
1. I love your new profile picture at the top of the page;
2. I am ALL about arugula;
3. I love ordering a good burger with crispy fries…not much has changed, because I still will order that!
You’re the sweetest <3 So glad you're a fellow arugula lover - Can't say I'm with you on the meat but I'd totally steal your fries 😉
Yum! This salad looks so amazing and has all of my favorite things – dried apples, tahini dressing and goat cheese! I will definitely be pinning this for later. My favorite salad greens are kale (thinly sliced) and spring mixes!
Oo I do love a good kale especially if there’s a nice light dressing.
When I was a kid, it was all about chicken fingers. My, how times have changed lol! My favorite salad green… what a tough question! It’s a toss up between spinach, kale and arugula!
This recipe looks so delicious. The flavor combos sounds great. When I’m a fancy adult and have dinner parties I’d love to serve this as a starter ;D
Yes! That’s my favorite trifecta of greens.
Cheers to future fancy dinner parties 😉
finally a recipe that i can use those apples in!! I bought some ages ago and have no use for them… why didn’t i think of a salad?! haha
They also make great additions to oats too
mmmm never thought of putting dried apples in a salad, looks amazing especially with goat cheese! This would be a great lunch with some soup!