At this time of year there are always certain ingredients that appear and there are certain recipes they will be used for. Think sprouts, walnuts, clementines, cranberries, Stilton cheese. I have been making a real effort to use these ingredients in a modern, less predictable way.
I enjoy creating winter salads in particular. Something fresh and light to enjoy alongside a plate of baked ham, leftover turkey or some cold stuffing – my favourite.
Having made my kale, roasted cranberry, pomegranate and smoked almond salad last winter I decided I wanted to make use of the beautiful bittersweet pop of roasted cranberries again. If you haven’t ever tried roasted cranberries I urge you to try them out. They will also be appearing in a featured post in early December too, they are that good.
This is a salad that is economical and thrifty for the festive season. You will be likely to have these ingredients lying around but you may not have used them in this refreshing raw sprout, clementine, cranberry, Stilton and walnut winter salad.
Before I tell you the recipe, you might like to read my Christmas vegetable strudel recipe which includes some of the ingredients used in this recipe and is another example of how to use festive ingredients in a new fashion.
I am linking my salad to:
Credit Crunch Munch – Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary, Fab Food 4 All, Fuss Free Flavours
The No Waste Food Challenge – It’s not easy being greedy & Elizabeth’s Kitchen diary
Extra Veg – Fuss Free Flavours & Utterly Scrummy
Here are a few more winter salad ideas for you to get inspired by:
Pomegranate, pumpkin & goats’ cheese salad – My food & happiness
Winter coleslaw – Hungry healthy happy
Mango, pomegranate & Brie salad – Celery & cupcakes
Moroccan orange & sultana salad – Demuths cookery school
Chorizo, pumpkin, spinach & giant cous cous salad – Kavey Eats
Kale & Barley salad with Teryaki salmon – The Botanical Baker
Raw Sprout Clementine Cranberry Stilton & Walnut Winter Salad
A perfect salad to use up Christmas leftovers
Ingredients
- For the dressing:
- 1 tsp cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp wholegrain mustard
- 1 clementine juice only
- salt & pepper
- For the salad:
- 250 g Brussel sprouts sliced thinly
- 1/2 bag prepared kale washed and de-stalked
- 1 clementine peeled and segmented
- 50 g Stilton crumbled
- a handful of walnuts broken into pieces broken into pieces
- 75 g roasted cranberries. To roast- place 150g frozen/fresh cranberries in a bowl coat in 1tbsp olive oil and 1tbsp sugar. Transfer to a lined baking tray and roast in a hot oven for 15 minutes. Leave to cool before serving (save the leftover cranberries for another salad or double up the recipe)
Instructions
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For the dressing:
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Place all of the ingredients into a bowl/jug and whisk together
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For the salad:
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Blanch the sprouts and the kale for 30 seconds in boiling water then drain and leave to cool
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Place the cooled sprouts and kale into a salad bowl. Top with the remaining ingredients
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Pour over the dressing and mix thoroughly before serving
Recipe Notes
For vegans, you could replace the Stilton cheese with avocado.
This salad is a great partner to cold meats and also to savoury tarts.
This is the perfect winter salad full of all the seasonals best produce! Love that you added clementines and sprouts. Thanks for including my recipe.
Hi Jemma, so pleased you like the flavours!
Your salad looks delicious. I love the addiction of Stilton. I am kind of addicted to walnuts and I eat them every day whenever I feel hungry. I find that they fill you up so easily. Lovely recipe.
Hi Alida, I also love Stilton and walnuts. I hope you try them both in a salad this winter!
I love cranberries and shredded sprouts in winter salads so I am all over this salad.
Good to hear Bintu, we have similar tastes!
This looks lovely, a great lighter dish in a season of decadence. I put sprouts in salads quite a fair bit last year – must be time to start buying them again. I love roasting them.
Me too Ceri, sprouts are lovely in so many ore ways than plain boiled. We have moved on from post war sprouts by now haven’t we?!
Sounds delicious and so simple! Love the festive feel of it with the clementine, brussels & cranberries 🙂
Hi Nadia, thanks and I love these flavours more like this than in the traditional way
Great minds think alike – I have a very similar salad going up tomorrow 🙂
Thanks for linking to my winter slaw too!
Look forward to seeing it Dannii 🙂
My sister adores sprouts so we cannot have Christmas dinner without them but I’m not usually a fan. These looks great though!
Oh Kavey, try this salad I am sure you will enjoy sprouts like this!
I LOVE how healthy and colourful this looks! I love adding cranberries to salads
Thanks Diana, me too. They are so colourful and tasty!
Oh this does sound rather lovely, and quite hearty for a salad! Thank you for sharing with Credit Crunch Munch 🙂
Roasted cranberries?? Genius. This salad speaks to my love of textural food and layered flavours. Delightfully seasonal too xx
Thanks Kellie, I love cranberries. So bittersweet, my favourite flavour!
I do really enjoy a good plate of raw leafy greens and this salad sounds delicious. Lots of lovely seasonal flavours. thanks for sharing with #creditcrunchmunch & #ExtraVeg
such a pretty salad. I guess raw sprouts are like little slivers of raw cabbage. nice idea.
This looks wonderful and anything with sprouts is a winner.
I am not sure I have seen a much more festive recipe than this – I love the combination of stilton with fruit. Thanks for entering into the no waste food challenge, the round up is now live, sorry it took so long!
Thanks Tracy, pleased you like the flavours here :))
Now THIS is my kind of salad. Sprouts and stilton with some fruit? Doesn’t get much better than that!
Thanks Dannii, I hope you will try it out 🙂