How do you eat all your favorite fall foods in just one healthy and awesomely easy meal?
Answer: Make a sweetpotato-kielbasa-apple-onion-bacon-and-everything-fall-delicious salad. And call it a Harvest Salad. That’s the kinda harvest I’m talking about.
Honestly, could mealtime ever really get better than all the best fall flavors rolled into one delicious salad?
In a word, YES. In many words, you need to pour sweet Maple Dressing over your sweetpotato-apple-onion-kielbasa-bacon-and-everything-fall-delicious salad and you will have the best salad ever. Ever, ever.
It’s dessert that’s a salad. Omigosh.
HARVEST SALAD WITH MAPLE DRESSING
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Serves: 4
Recipe Modified from: pinchofyum
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato
- ½ cup coarsely sliced yellow onion
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 cup sliced turkey kielbasa sausage
- ½ large Honeycrisp apple
- 2 tablespoons crumbled gluten free bacon
- fresh baby spinach
- ¼ cup light sour cream
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- ½ tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon each canola oil, red wine vinegar, and water
- pinch of cinnamon, salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet. Add potatoes and onions and saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Add kielbasa to pan and saute until browned. Add sweet potatoes and onions back into the pan with a little butter (optional) and saute everything over medium-low heat for another 5 minutes blend the flavors. Add raw apples and bacon to the skillet and stir to mix.
- Tear the spinach into bite-sized pieces. In a large bowl, toss the spinach with everything in the skillet.
- Whisk all ingredients for the dressing (sour cream through cinnamon) and serve over each individual salad.
Photo Credit: pinchofyum