Christmas salad recipes
Using the very best seasonal ingredients – such as clementines, brussels sprouts, pomegranate and beetroot – we’ve created some wonderful Christmas salad recipes for you to add to your festive table.
Try our smoked salmon and clementine salad for a starter or use up leftover stuffing in our warm chicory salad. Blood orange pairs with burrata in a cinnamon cashew salad, use gammon in a quinoa creation, or roast beef in a crunchy salad.
Want some Christmas sides inspiration? We’ve got you covered…
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Halloumi
Halloumi, clementine and barley salad
Add colour to a festive spread with this vibrant halloumi and clementine salad. Enjoy as a starter or pile it up on a platter as a side dish.
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Oranges
Blood orange, burrata and cinnamon-cashew salad with mulled wine glaze
Blood orange and burrata salad gets a festive spin with a spiced mulled wine dressing. Perfect as a Christmas starter or Boxing Day salad.
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Christmas cabbage with hazelnuts, olives and raisins
Jazz up your Christmas cabbage. Treat savoy like a salad, combining shredded leaves with nuts, olives, raisins, herbs and pomegranate seeds.
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Christmas leftovers
Pulled ginger beer gammon salad with quinoa
Celebrate the flavours of Christmas all throughout winter with this pulled ginger beer gammon and quinoa salad
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Christmas salads
Roast beef with fragrant crunchy salad
For a lighter roast which doesn't compromise on flavour: try tender roast beef with a crunchy salad of beansprouts, sugar snaps and radishes.
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Sweet potatoes
Roast sweet potato, beetroot and red onion salad with miso dressing
We've used miso dressing in this roast sweet potato, beetroot and red onion salad for an umami kick. It makes a great vegetarian lunch.
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Winter salads
Warm stuffed chicory salad
Slightly bitter chicory leaves are roasted and served with sweet pears, tasty stuffing and crunchy nuts in this filling Christmas salad recipe.
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Christmas starters
Warm root vegetable salad with parma ham
An easy winter salad with caramelised root vegetables – as well as parma ham, croutons and a yogurt dressing – in a wonderfully warm and filling salad.
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Christmas starters
Smoked salmon, fennel and clementine salad
The refreshing flavours of clementine and fennel cut through the salty richness of the smoked salmon perfectly. This salad would make a fine Christmas starter served with a crusty loaf of bread.
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Vegan dinners
Lemony raw beetroot and quinoa salad with dill and olives
Raw beetroot is crisp yet tender, earthy and sweet and a perfect addition to salads. This salad is vegan, but feta makes a fantastic addition.
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Christmas salads
Roast cauliflower, kale and goat’s cheese salad
Roast cauliflower and quinoa go in this seasonal salad making it hearty and winter-appropriate. It's on the table and ready to eat in 30 minutes.
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Bacon
Warm salad of scallops
The classic combination of scallops and black pudding is updated with the addition of bacon and apples in this warm salad.
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Oranges
Orange and pomegranate salad with orange blossom cream
Donal Skehan's winter fruit salad recipe is a healthy mix of oranges, pomegranate and pistachios served with a orange blossom cream.
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Cheat's recipes
Easy warm roast cauliflower, sweet potato and quinoa salad
Make the most of winter vegetables in this warming cauliflower and sweet potato salad. Using shop-bought quinoa is quicker than cooking your own.
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Lentils
Easy warm lentil and beetroot salad
A quick and nutritious midweek meal recipe that's full of flavour from earthy beetroot, tangy feta and refreshing mint and coriander.
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Boxing Day
Fennel and orange salad
A refreshing and zesty Christmas salad recipe made with fennel, sweet oranges, radicchio and a zingy lemon and dill dressing.
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