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Apple Walnut Salad with Cranberry Vinaigrette

“This salad contains lots of greens and sliced Red Delicious apples with a sprinkling of toasted almonds. But the dressing is a bit fancier. Cranberries, onions, sugar, and mustard are pureed in the blender with balsamic vinegar and oil, then added to the salad so that it perfectly coats every leaf of lettuce and slice of apple.”

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Reviewed: May 7, 2012

Delicious! I also reduced the oil to half. It does make the dressing thicker, but it is still wonderful. I used olive oil. Also, blue cheese goes great with it.

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Julie

Reviewed: Apr. 9, 2012

I'm giving this a 5-star for the taste. Made it for Easter dinner yesterday. Followed other reviews and reduced red onion to 1/4 c. in the dressing and added the rest as thinly sliced in the salad, also reduced oil to 1/2 cup and used canola oil. Used pecans because I didn't have walnuts, added some grapes cut in half and used a pear rather than apple because I wanted to try something different. Salad tasted wonderful, dressing was very good with one exception. It was soooo thick and not at all like the bottled dressings that pour. Any suggestions on how to "thin" this out without changing the taste??

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KNEENOR

Reviewed: Mar. 7, 2012

Love it!

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sk1bunni3

Reviewed: Feb. 12, 2012

Good recipe but a little bland. I upped the dijon mustard and salt and ended up with a dressing everyone loved.

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Tess

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2012

I reduced the red onion, per multiple reviewer suggestion, and found that even 1/4 of a red onion (about 1/3 cup) was still way too much. It was very distracting from the salad. Next time I'm going to go down to 1/4 cup (if that much). I'm sure this recipe will be perfect once the onion is properly adjusted - but the onion just way to much. (Are we sure 1 cup of red onion isn't a type-o?) Oh - and cranberry jelly from the can worked fine. Served the leftover jelly with dinner.

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Special K

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Brookfield, Wisconsin, USA

Living In: Evanston, Illinois, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2012

We found the dressing to be way too strong with the amount of onion - will try again with half of the required amount...

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Reviewed: Oct. 24, 2011

I had this salad with spinich as the green.....it was sooooo good.

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Gretta

Reviewed: Oct. 18, 2011

This was outstanding! I cut back on the onion as I am not a big fan, and I used pecans instead of walnuts because that's all I had on hand. The dressing has just the right amount of tartness. Delicious!

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spartygirl

Reviewed: Sep. 5, 2011

This was too oily for my taste. It was good, but it didn't knock my socks off. I doubled the cranberries and used half the onions as suggested. I ended up adding more onions, and I should have added more cranberries.

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