Strawberry Balsamic Salad Recipe

This Strawberry Balsamic Salad is the perfect dinner salad! It comes with fresh strawberries, vegetables, creamy goat cheese, candied walnuts and the most delicious maple balm sauce! This salad recipe is for goalkeepers!

This strawberry balm salad was inspired by a French tavern. We were going to have lunch and I always ordered fruit salad, goa cheese and candied fruit. They changed the fruit depending on the season, but the one I like the most has strawberries!

This is really worth dinner (if you want to be fancy, or lunch). Everything is simple (even those candied walnuts). I love adding fruit to salads, especially if you have a balsamic sauce like this. Another favorite is this strawberry iceberg salad, which is a wedge-shaped salad with blue cheese but made with strawberries instead of tomatoes.

Key Ingredients

• strawberry: Ideally, use sweet, ripe strawberries as this salad. If your strawberries are not perfect, summarize and halve them and dust them with sugar and a little salt. After 10 to 15 minutes, they will release the juice, dissolve the sugar and salt. This impregnation process enhances their sweetness and flavor.
• Salad Vegetables: I like the mild lettuce and greens of this salad, such as butter lettuce, red leaves and even spinach. Use what you like!
• cucumber: I usually buy hothouse or English cucumbers for salads because they have no seeds and thinner skin. A regular garden cucumber can work too, but consider peeling off some or all of the skin and removing larger seeds.
• orange: I like to add some extra fruit to this salad, so I peeled the orange off and sliced ​​it thinly. I love the juicy orange color, and there are other salad ingredients (especially goat cheese).
• Goat Cheese: Using soft goat cheese, divide it into large clumps for salad. The feta is also good, but I really like the cream of the goat cheese.
• Maple Balm Dressing: You will combine the balsamic vinegar with red wine vinegar, second mustard, maple syrup and olive oil. For the best taste, use Italian mid-range elderly balsamic vinegar. Taste the seasoning and adjust the maple syrup as needed for a sweet taste. High-end balms may already be sweet enough, while cheaper balms have more flavor and require extra sweetness from maple syrup. I also have this balsamic recipe, which requires a little strawberry jam to make things sweet.
• Maple candied walnuts: I have been unable to stop making candied fruit since I tried this stove-top method with maple syrup. Quick and easy, plus I love their salads, like that. Of course, you can also swap them for other nuts. If you are interested, we can also use these recipes, pecans for stove candied fruit, and pecan recipes for candied fruit in the oven.

I can’t wait to think of you trying this strawberry salad. I bet you even reserve your energy for dressings and candied walnuts for other dishes. Of course I have. You can see walnuts in our photos. They became so shiny that the taste was incredible (I love making a batch of double batches and keeping the rest of the snacks!)

For more strawberry recipes, I highly recommend using this berry fruit salad (for dessert or breakfast) or these simple strawberry muffins! If you’re completely overwhelmed by fresh berries, I love this strawberry pi too!