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Thanksgiving Salads

By Food & Wine Updated March 08, 2017
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Brown Rice Salad with Cranberries, Walnuts, Mint, and Feta
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Step up your Thanksgiving side-dish game with a tasty salad. Whether you want to use seasonal veggies like sweet potatoes and beets, or are looking for a unique twist, like Moroccan-inspired carrot salad, F&W has a recipe for everyone. From a quinoa and roasted carrot salad to an eggplant, pear and Pecorino dish, here are 19 delicious Thanksgiving salad recipes.
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Quinoa Salad with Sweet Potatoes and Apples

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This delicious, super-healthy quinoa salad is a great meal-in-one; it makes an ideal vegetarian option at the Thanksgiving table.

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Roasted Beets with Pistachios, Herbs and Orange

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Beets are a no-brainer for healthy meals since they taste great even when they’re simply roasted with a little oil. Naomi Pomeroy goes beyond that, topping red and golden beet slices with a lively mixed-herb dressing, pistachios and celery leaves.

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Fennel-and-Citrus Salad with Mint

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For his light, simple salad, chef Matthew Accarrino mixes grapefruit and orange segments with shaved fennel and a sweet-tart honey-lemon dressing.

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Cellared-Vegetable Salad

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Art Smith uses a mix of roasted root vegetables, such as the beets, turnips, parsnips and celery root here, to make a delicious salad in colder months. His vinaigrette, made with fresh orange juice, shallot and white balsamic vinegar, is equally wintry.

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Roasted Carrot and Red Quinoa Salad

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Cumin, coriander and cardamom punch up this salad.

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Farro Salad with Winter Fruit, Pistachios and Ginger

Farro Salad with Winter Fruit, Pistachios and Ginger
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“When I make the dressing for the farro salad, I like to use young ginger, which is tender and easy to grate. And it’s just so juicy,” says chef Annie Somerville.

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Eggplant, Pear and Pecorino Salad

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There’s a saying in Italy that one should never tell a farmer just how good his cheese and pears taste together (presumably because if he knew, he would hoard them all). In this salad, Opera 02 chef Silvana Baranzoni adds eggplant and walnuts to that beloved duo.

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Moroccan Carrot Salad with Spicy Lemon Dressing

Moroccan Carrot Salad with Spicy Lemon Dressing
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Susan Feniger likes to make this salad early in the day, so the carrots marinate a bit in the dressing. Harissa, the North African chile paste, adds fiery heat.

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Red Cabbage Salad with Fennel, Orange and Pepitas

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Sera Pelle loves making this rainbow-colored salad with umeboshi vinegar, the salty vinegar leftover from pickling Japanese plums. The fresh lemon juice used here is easier to find and equally delicious.

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Lentil Salad with Spinach, Pecans, and Cheddar

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Spinach serves two purposes here: Half of the leaves are shredded and wilted with the warm lentils, while the rest is dressed and makes a base for the salad. For the cheese, choose a good-quality aged white or yellow cheddar; its sharp flavor will perfectly contrast the lentils' earthiness.

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Green Bean-and-Blood Orange Salad

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“Blood oranges are part of my Sicily fascination,” Renato Poliafito says. He uses the segments to add color and tang to green beans and reduces the juice with balsamic vinegar to make the dressing.

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Four-Herb Tabbouleh

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This delightful tabbouleh, which uses Israeli couscous in place of bulgur, follows the Lebanese tradition of including more herbs than grain. Grace Parisi adds both parsley and lovage, which has a light, bright flavor similar to celery leaves.

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Lemony Beet and Beet Green Salad

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Buying beets with the beet greens still attached is like getting two ingredients in one. To turn them into this fabulous salad, roast the beets until they’re sweet, blanch the greens until they’re tender, then toss both with olive oil, lemon and anchovies.

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Roasted Sweet Potato and Onion Salad

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Honey and molasses give this side a sticky-sweet helping of Thanksgiving flavor.

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Beet-and-Apple Salad

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For his salad, George Mendes uses fresh horseradish and Gegenbauer cider vinegar, a rare Austrian import. This version calls for jarred horseradish and supermarket apple-cider vinegar.

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Sweet Potato and Mushroom Salad

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Combining savory miso with mustard and oil creates a delicious dressing that's especially good with these roasted sweet potatoes.

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Roasted Root-Vegetable Salad with Persimmons

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Tom Fundaro, the chef at Villa Creek in Paso Robles, California, looks forward to fall just so he can eat Fuyu persimmons as sweet as sugar. Fundaro features them in this satisfying and nicely bitter fall salad.

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Beet-and-Blood-Orange Salad with Mint

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To give this refreshing salad Palestinian flavor, Sam Mogannam seasons the dressing with ground sumac, a tangy Middle Eastern spice. While the color of golden beets contrasts nicely with dark red blood orange sections, any beet variety--from standard red ones to the white-and-pink striped chioggia--will be delicious.

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Brown Rice Salad with Cranberries, Walnuts, Mint, and Feta

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This bright brown rice dish can be served warm, or chilled and served as a salad or side.

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    1 of 19 Quinoa Salad with Sweet Potatoes and Apples
    2 of 19 Roasted Beets with Pistachios, Herbs and Orange
    3 of 19 Fennel-and-Citrus Salad with Mint
    4 of 19 Cellared-Vegetable Salad
    5 of 19 Roasted Carrot and Red Quinoa Salad
    6 of 19 Farro Salad with Winter Fruit, Pistachios and Ginger
    7 of 19 Eggplant, Pear and Pecorino Salad
    8 of 19 Moroccan Carrot Salad with Spicy Lemon Dressing
    9 of 19 Red Cabbage Salad with Fennel, Orange and Pepitas
    10 of 19 Lentil Salad with Spinach, Pecans, and Cheddar
    11 of 19 Green Bean-and-Blood Orange Salad
    12 of 19 Four-Herb Tabbouleh
    13 of 19 Lemony Beet and Beet Green Salad
    14 of 19 Roasted Sweet Potato and Onion Salad
    15 of 19 Beet-and-Apple Salad
    16 of 19 Sweet Potato and Mushroom Salad
    17 of 19 Roasted Root-Vegetable Salad with Persimmons
    18 of 19 Beet-and-Blood-Orange Salad with Mint
    19 of 19 Brown Rice Salad with Cranberries, Walnuts, Mint, and Feta

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