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Healthy Cranberry Salad with Apples, Pecans, Pears and Oranges
Stephanie Hofer

Festive Cranberry and Winter Fruit Salad

Cranberry salad with apples, pears, oranges and pecans is bursting with flavor. Heathy and perfect for festive holiday feasts.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Chill 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 10 servings
Course: Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 C fresh cranberries, halved washed and sorted
  • 2 apples, cored and diced for a more festive salad add 1 red and 1 green
  • 1 pear, cored and diced
  • 1 orange, chopped
  • 1 C pecans or walnuts, chopped
  • 1/4 C sugar optional, see notes
  • 1 tbls. cinnamon

Method
 

  1. Place cranberries in a large mixing bowl and toss with sugar (optional, see notes).
    Add remaining chopped fruit, nuts and cinnamon. Toss until cinnamon is well distributed.
    Chill for at least 2 hours for flavors to blend.

Notes

Sugar: I use 1/4 cup of regular white granulated sugar for this recipe or 1/4 cup of granulated monk fruit and find it is plenty sweet. It will depend to your liking, you can add more sugar if necessary. If you prefer a tart salad you can skip the sugar all together. That's my personal preference if I making this just for myself.
Apples: To make this salad more festive add 1 green and 1 red apple. My personal preference is a Honeycrisp apple.
Nuts: While you can use pecans or walnuts, I find the salad just as delicious without the nuts.