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.
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.
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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Yum! I love strawberries on my salad, I bet pomegranate is even better!
Looks delicious and healthy!
That salad looks so good. I love putting fruit on a salad, makes it more refreshing.
I love fruit in salads too, especially, with cheese or nuts to balance the salt and crunch.
The pear and goat cheese combo gets me every time! It is just so good!! Thanks for this recipe!
I love your blog a d recipes! You always inspire me to get in the kitchen!
I’m not a huge salad fan, but this looks delicious; I would happily eat this if someone served it to me 🙂
I love that – the food others make is always a great thing. haha
I am going to add it to my Christmas menu too! It is so pretty!
Yes, it looks like the perfect pretty Christmas salad.
Looks delicious! I can’t wait to try this
A quick and easy salad I can make ahead for lunch. Thanks for sharing!
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.
I hope your family loves it, thank you for commenting.
Simple, healthy and delicious recipe! Thanks for sharing. I love to making spinach salad like this.
Thanks for sharing, I have a pomegranate tree in my yard, so i like finding recipes.
Great, how fun to use your own fruit on this.
This looks amazing as a summer salad. I am definitely going to try it.
YUM. This is enticing!
Sharing with the daughter, such a simple, healthy salad using her fav…pomegranates!
Great, I hope she loves it.
This looks like a tasty salad. I may need some oil & vinegar to top it off.
Yes that is all it needs.
You had me at Pomegranates! What an amazing salad!
Mmm love me a fresh salad!
This looks amazing! I wish you were my neighbor!
Ha, thanks for the compliment. My neighbors are often my taste testers and they love that!
This looks so good! I like my salads with fruit and a little tartness. I need to give this one a try!
This salad looks so good! I love the idea of the tangy goat cheese with the sweet pear. Gonna try this for sure!
It is a great combo then add the pop from the pomegranates – oh yeah!
This looks like a great recipe. I like using pomegranates in the winter and they make an excellent addition to salads!
This salad looks scrumptious!! I love pomegranates and pears! Thanks for sharing.
This looks so good! I love spinach
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!
That looks really really good. Guess I’m going to be trying Pomegranate Seeds for the first time… lol.
Yeah, I cannot wait to hear what you think of them. We love them!
This looks light and delicious!
This looks delicious – what a great combination of flavors! Thanks for sharing with us at The Blogger’s Pit Stop!
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 !
Yummy, always looking for ways to use pomegranate seeds.
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
Thanks for sharing I got to try this!
This salad looks amazing! I’d simply leave off the cheese. I’m plant based.