A simple summer salad loaded with apples, strawberries, nectarine, blueberries, and cherry tomatoes. Delicious and healthy, this salad is bursting with flavor and texture.
I’m so excited to introduce this salad recipe to you. If you’ve been following me the last few days, you know that I’ve been eating my way through Southern California. I hope that you enjoyed reading about my little adventures. While that was fun and extremely filling, I missed eating meals made at home. Less oil, less fat, and just plain refreshing.
So today I wanted to share with you a recipe for my Summer Berry Salad. Loaded with slightly sour and tart Granny Smith apples, sweet strawberries, nectarine, and blueberries, as well as sweet cherry tomatoes, this salad is all natural, refreshing, and delicious. I was really craving one of these while I was away. Especially on the days when we had all you can eat barbeque. I’m not a vegetarian, but I much rather prefer tons of veggies to tons of meat. Does anyone else feel the same way?
What I love about this salad is that it has tons of fruits and vegetables. Well, more fruits than vegetables, but it’s still healthy and refreshing, which at the moment, what I really want. Each ingredient contributes something different to this salad, whether it’s flavor or texture. One ingredient could be sweet, while another sour. Or the apple could crunch while the blueberries are bursting with juice. This salad, like most salad, is so versatile. If you don’t like a certain fruit, or if you’re allergic, you can always replace it with something else. It’s that easy. And guess what? No cooking involved! Drizzled with your favorite dressing, you’ll have a yummy meal ready in about 10-15 minutes.
Vegan, gluten free, and healthy, this salad works for just about everyone. I hope you’ll like it as much as I do.
First, wash all the ingredients and allow them to dry.
Tear up the lettuce into bite size pieces.
Slice up the strawberries into fourths. Cut the apple and nectarine into thin slices. Slice the tomatoes in half.
In a medium bowl, add the lettuce, strawberries, apple, nectarine, blueberries, and cherry tomatoes. Toss them until all the ingredients are evenly incorporated. Drizzle your favorite dressing over the salad. I recommend Nectarine Balsamic Vinaigrette or Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette, but use whatever you like forever.
Serve the salad cold.
Enjoy!
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Ooh yum, I love combining fruit and “conventional” salad ingredients. The colours in this are fantastic.
Thank you! If you get the chance to try the salad, I hope you’ll like it =)
This looks delicious and perfect for a steamy, Southern afternoon. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! Hope you’ll like it, Anna!
Looks yummy, perfect for a sunny day!
Thank you!
Just awesome! Amazing food and an amazing website.
Thank you so much!
My mouth is watering just looking at the photo of this salad! bright, colorful, delicious and healthy! Definitely making this this weekend 🙂
I love my salads filled with ingredients and color. Makes it so much more fun to eat! I hope you’ll like the salad =)
Having this for supper tonight, thanks!
I hope you liked the salad! =)
I did indeed, it was delicious!
Thank you!
awesome
Thanks, Annette!
Andrea, this looks so good. The perfect salad in my mind will always have a mixture that will include at least one of each of these groups: greens, one or more fruits, nuts, and cheese. I love a huge mixture of veggies as well added in. I’m excited to try your recommended salad dressing. Making it from scratch where you can make sure it does not have any added chemicals is huge for our family dealing with allergies. I enjoyed seeing your posts from L.A.
Thank you so much for reading my L.A. posts! I really love balsamic vinaigrette and I think it’s fun to add different fruits to it to create a brand new dressing. I hope you’ll like my recommendation. =)
I love this salad! We have a salad for lunch every day that we can. Our supply of ingredients is harder to manage, as the refrigerators in RV’s is usually small. We could alternate between this type and our usual of Lettuce, Tomato, Cucumber, mushroom, Radish, cheese, with dressing. My husband wants meat on his, I will sometimes have chicken or tuna on mine, and we like different dressings.
Thanks for sharing! I love to switch up my salads too! It changes with the ingredients I have on hand =)
This looks so yummy, a rainbow of goodness on the plate!
Thank you, Eily! I hope you’ll like it!