Spinach is one of my favorite salad greens since it holds up well with any kind of dressing and is a bright green color. To fancy up this salad, I love having a pop of color, a mixture of textures, and flavors, and a light dressing so all the fresh ingredients shine. I cannot wait for ripe juicy pears each Autumn so I can make the best spinach salad recipe.
This salad is a wonderfully easy, tasty, and healthy Fall favorite. It is perfect for so many diets and lifestyles. This pomegranate seed and goat cheese salad is vegetarian, gluten-free, grain-free, low-calorie, and diabetic-friendly.
The pomegranate seeds bring in a tart crunch in a beautiful red little package. Nowadays the process of cracking open a pomegranate to dig out all those seeds is made much easier as many stores now have little containers in the produce section with this already done for you. It doesn't just save time - but also potentially saves your clothes and hands from any staining. YES!
Add to that some creamy goat cheese, fresh juicy pears, and a drizzle of oil and vinegar, and the spinach has been dressed up perfectly. I made this for the first time a few days after Christmas and as I was taking the photos on my red plate, I realized how festive this was. Next year I plan to make it at Christmas!
How to Make this Pomegranate Spinach Salad
This is so easy to make. All you need are 6 ingredients, as seen below.
Ingredients for Pomegranate Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese
Wash your pear and then slice it into bite-sized medium-thin slices. Leave the skin on, that helps the pear stay a bit more sturdy as you toss and serve the salad. It also adds more color and nutrients to the dish. This is how I sliced mine.
Sliced pears
On a large platter or serving bowl, place the wash and dried spinach leaves. Top with the sliced pears and then sprinkle on the pomegranate seeds. Next using a spoon scoop little thumb-sized dollops of goat cheese over the top evenly.
Right before serving, drizzle on the olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Add salt & pepper to taste. Enjoy immediately.
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Pomegranate Spinach Salad with Pears & Goat Cheese
Ingredients
- 16 oz fresh spinach washed, drained & dry
- 1 pear sliced & cored
- 3 oz goat cheese
- 2 TB pomegranate seeds
- olive oil
- balsamic vinegar
- salt & pepper
Instructions
- In a large salad bowl or platter, add clean dried spinach leaves.
- Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds. Spoon thumb-sized goat cheese dollops over the salad evenly.
- Top with pear slices. Drizzle olive oil & balsamic vinegar, to taste.
- Add salt & pepper, to taste.
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Robin says
Yum! I love strawberries on my salad, I bet pomegranate is even better!
Sydney Delong says
Looks delicious and healthy!
Lora Rovegna says
That salad looks so good. I love putting fruit on a salad, makes it more refreshing.
Angela says
I love fruit in salads too, especially, with cheese or nuts to balance the salt and crunch.
Malia says
The pear and goat cheese combo gets me every time! It is just so good!! Thanks for this recipe!
Holly says
I love your blog a d recipes! You always inspire me to get in the kitchen!
Maria G says
I'm not a huge salad fan, but this looks delicious; I would happily eat this if someone served it to me 🙂
Angela says
I love that - the food others make is always a great thing. haha
Lisa says
I am going to add it to my Christmas menu too! It is so pretty!
Angela says
Yes, it looks like the perfect pretty Christmas salad.
Jen says
Looks delicious! I can’t wait to try this
heather jandrue says
A quick and easy salad I can make ahead for lunch. Thanks for sharing!
Beth says
I've been adding goat cheese to everything lately, since I love cheese and my daughter-in-law can eat feta. So many reasons to try this salad, not to mention the gorgeous colors.
Angela says
I hope your family loves it, thank you for commenting.
Jane says
Simple, healthy and delicious recipe! Thanks for sharing. I love to making spinach salad like this.
Jennifer says
Thanks for sharing, I have a pomegranate tree in my yard, so i like finding recipes.
Angela says
Great, how fun to use your own fruit on this.
Cindy says
This looks amazing as a summer salad. I am definitely going to try it.
Amy Irvin says
YUM. This is enticing!
Suzan says
Sharing with the daughter, such a simple, healthy salad using her fav...pomegranates!
Angela says
Great, I hope she loves it.
vanessa says
This looks like a tasty salad. I may need some oil & vinegar to top it off.
Angela says
Yes that is all it needs.
Tricia Snow says
You had me at Pomegranates! What an amazing salad!
Christina Furnival says
Mmm love me a fresh salad!
Katherine Wolfe says
This looks amazing! I wish you were my neighbor!
Angela says
Ha, thanks for the compliment. My neighbors are often my taste testers and they love that!
Stacey Billingsley says
This looks so good! I like my salads with fruit and a little tartness. I need to give this one a try!
Trisha says
This salad looks so good! I love the idea of the tangy goat cheese with the sweet pear. Gonna try this for sure!
Angela says
It is a great combo then add the pop from the pomegranates - oh yeah!
Tara says
This looks like a great recipe. I like using pomegranates in the winter and they make an excellent addition to salads!
Shirley says
This salad looks scrumptious!! I love pomegranates and pears! Thanks for sharing.
Brianna says
This looks so good! I love spinach
Robin @ Reinventing Robin says
So simple, yet looks so delicious! I used to love to eat pomegranate seeds when I was little, but for some reason haven't had them since, so thanks for the reminder to start eating them again!
Susan says
That looks really really good. Guess I'm going to be trying Pomegranate Seeds for the first time... lol.
Angela says
Yeah, I cannot wait to hear what you think of them. We love them!
Michele says
This looks light and delicious!
Roseann Hampton says
This looks delicious - what a great combination of flavors! Thanks for sharing with us at The Blogger's Pit Stop!
T.M. Brown says
I don't believe I have ever had pomegranates - (hangs head in shame). I'm not sure this would be my first choice for a salad, but you definitely enticed me to give it a try !
Lisa says
Yummy, always looking for ways to use pomegranate seeds.
Miz Helen says
Thanks so much for sharing with us on Full Plate Thursday,467. Hope you are having a great week and come back to see us real soon!
Miz Helen
Beatriz says
Thanks for sharing I got to try this!
Cindy says
This salad looks amazing! I’d simply leave off the cheese. I’m plant based.