Need a fresh lunch idea? Need to eat more fresh fruits and greens? Try this harvest salad with a quick homemade honey mustard vinaigrette, it's a crowd pleaser and adaptable to so many personal tastes, you can't really go wrong.

To make this salad, you'll need:

Fresh greens or choice
Fresh seasonal fruits in plenty of varieties
Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

To make the honey mustard vinaigrette, you'll need:

¼ cup of honey
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon EVO
1 ½ teaspoon stone ground mustard
salt + pepper to taste

-To make this quick vinaigrette, just whisk all ingredients together!

Salad Topping Ideas:

Granola
Raisins
Seeds (pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, chia seeds)
Sliced almonds or walnuts
Dried goji berries (besides being super pretty, it adds lots of antioxidant vitamin A)

Enjoy this fresh harvest salad with honey mustard vinaigrette, alternate it to your tastes, and let the creativity flow! For another healthy salad with a honey mustard sauce, check out my Rustic Honey Mustard Slaw. I love it with pulled BBQ sandwiches!

Harvest Salad

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Author: Hannah Jupiter

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Description

A super healthy harvest salad loaded with fresh fruits and crunchy granola, all topped with an easy, creamy homemade honey mustard vinaigrette.

Ingredients

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For the Harvest Salad:

Greens of choice
Fresh fruit (Strawberries, blueberries, apples, peaches are all great here)
Granola
Seeds/nuts of choice for topping (sliced almonds, walnuts, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc.)

For the Honey Mustard Vinaigrette:

¼ cup honey
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon EVO
1 ½ teaspoon stone ground mustard
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

To make the Vinaigrette:

Whisk all ingredients together. Taste and adjust salt as needed.*

To make the Harvest Salad:

Arrange greens on bottom of a deep bowl, top with fresh cut fruits and your granola and/or seeds and nuts.
Top with vinaigrette.
Enjoy.

Notes

*This sauce is easy to troubleshoot. If it tastes too vineagry or the mustard is overpowering, add more honey.