Fall Fruit Harvest Salad
Pears, persimmons, and pomegranates, all the quintessential fall fruits, with Holiday spiced pecans and a sweet lemony maple vinaigrette. It’s a let’s-take-all-the-fruits-that-are-in-season-and-make-a-deliciously-colorful-and-festive-salad-out-of-them kinda situation!
Servings: 10
Ingredients
For the Salad
- 2 heads frisee cored and trimmed torn into bite sized pieces
- 1 small head radicchio halved, cored and cut into 1-inch strips
- 4 balls burrata 8 oz/ball
- 3 pears I like to use a mix of different types and colors
- 3 persimmons
- 1 pomegranate deseeded
For the Candied Pecans
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- pinch ground cloves
For the Lemony Maple Vinaigrette
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 zest & juice lemons
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 shallot minced
- kosher salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
For the Candied Pecans
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Whisk together brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cayenne in a medium bowl. Add in melted butter and stir until well combined. Add in pecans and toss to thoroughly coat nuts with sugar mixture. Spread pecans onto a foil lined baking sheet. Transfer to oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove pecans from oven and let cool to room temperature and then roughly chop.
For the Lemony Maple Vinaigrette
- In a medium bowl, whisk together shallot, maple syrup, mustard, lemon juice and zest. Whisking constantly, drizzle in remaining 1/4 cup (60 ml) olive oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
For the Salad
- Arrange frisee & radicchio on serving platter and toss with salad dressing, to taste.
- Arrange fruit and burrata and top, sprinkle with pomegranate seeds and pecans. Drizzle more dressing. Enjoy.
Notes
- Buy the best damn local organic fruit you can find.
- Cutting with a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one! Friends, keep this in mind for thinly slicing the fruit.
- Choose pears and persimmons on the firmer side so they’ll cute nicely.
- If cutting pears much in advance, squeeze them with some lemon to keep from browning.
- Not all Burrata is created equal. Buy the good stuff. See rant on this above.
- De-seeding a pomegranate is deliciously messy ~ do it over the sink get in the sink! Meditate. Rejoice in the fruits of the fall/winter.
- Pecans can be made up to 1 week in advance and stored in an airtight container. Dressing can be made up to 3 days in advance and stored in the fridge.