Get Back in Shape with delicious salads after your festival

With the festival complete, it's time to get your eating habits back on a healthier track. There's no better way to do that than by adding a bit of greens to mealtime. And it just so happens that winter offers a ton of great, seasonal fruits and vegetables to kick your regular salad up a notch. Whether you're a sucker for clementines or love a good fennel dish, I rounded up some seasonal salads for your palate.

Butternut Squash Salad with Escarole
Ingredients:
1/2 medium butternut squash, peeled and diced, Olive oil, Kosher salt, 1 head of curly escarole, chopped
1 small bunch watercress, 1 medium shallot, very thinly sliced, 1/2 cup dried cranberries, 1/4 cup nuts (walnuts, pine nuts, pecans)
Dressing:
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar, 3 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, 1 tablespoon molasses
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine diced butternut squash with olive oil and a little kosher salt. Spread in a single layer on a baking sheet and roast until tender, about 20 - 30 minutes, depending on the size of your squash chunks.
2. Combine ingredients for dressing in a jar and shake well.
3. Add escarole, watercress and shallot to salad bowl. Top with butternut squash and cranberries or nuts if using. Top with salad dressing.

Orange and Pomegranate Salad
This salad is both great-tasting and great-looking. It features a host a season favorites like bright oranges and jewel-toned pomegranate seeds on a bed of young spinach. The light dressing is made with creamy buttermilk and a hint of fresh-squeezed orange juice. 

 

Persimmon and Clementine Salad

I love this gorgeous, fruit-laden salads with jewel toned fruits and fresh, bright vinaigrettes. This terrific persimmon, pear, and clementine salad is a good example featuring some of the season's best fruits. It makes a beautiful and delicious side dish for a nice dinner, but it's also a fantastic and healthy lunch.

 

Watercress and Kumquat

Salad Kumquats, often thought to be a citrus fruit, or not, but the consensus on flavor is that they're tiny bites that are both sweet and sour. I've come to love them for they're bite, and intense citrus flavor. Kumquats played a starring role in this watercress and avocado salad. The piquant and creamy dressing compliments healthy, crisp watercress and creamy avocado.

 

Colorful Winter Salad

A mixed veggie salad can bring a big pop of color to dreary winter tables, and all those colors mean the dish is packed with lots of healthy vitamins. Bitter greens like radicchio and frisee balanced by sweet and smoky cippolini onions, and creamy Asiago cheese, make this salad downright hearty, especially with a couple of over-easy eggs.   

Apple Pear Gorgonzola Salad

This salad features fresh apples, pears and Gorgonzola. The dressing is very light, made with Dijon mustard, apple cider and lemon juice. It's a perfect light salad to help with your New Year's resolutions of healthy eating.  

Roasted Cauliflower Salad With Dried Cherries

I love roasted veggie salads and this one is particularly delicious with caramelized cauliflower and tangy dried cherries. The pine nuts lend a nutty texture and taste that provides a nice contrast to the cauliflower. While this dish is certainly easy enough for casual family suppers its eye-catching colors and subtle tastes would also make it a fantastic, healthy side dish for holidays and dinner parties.

    

Redbor Kale with Roasted Squash and Orange

This colorful salad is one of my favorites. Earthy Redbor kale (a purple or pinkish variety) is dressed in a lightly sweet, tangy vinaigrette with the fragrance of fresh orange. Roasted butternut squash lends heartiness and fall color to the salad, and supremed oranges make it delightful.

Fennel and Kohlrabi Salad

Unique ingredients like fennel or kohlrabi can lend surprising crunch and texture to ordinary winter dishes. Fennel has a subtle licorice flavor with a crisp, celery-like texture. And kohlrabi is crunchy and just a little sweet, lying somewhere between jicama and potato. Paired up with parsley and red onion, these seasonal ingredients make for a unique and refreshing winter salad.

Spicy Squash Salad

This is a simple salad that can be made with an assortment of winter squash or root vegetables. The lemony dressing and bracing parsley are a wonderful counterpoint to the sweet and spicy roasted squash.

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