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  • Simple & Refreshing Apple Orange Salad Recipe (Healthy & Easy!)

    Simple & Refreshing Apple Orange Salad Recipe (Healthy & Easy!)

    A light, refreshing Apple and Orange Salad recipe loaded with apples, oranges, raisins and walnuts with a flavorful dressing – perfect as an appetizer or entree!The flavors of the apples, oranges, walnuts and raisins are so clean and fresh. It never fails to please.

    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe
    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe

    This year, I decided to try more salad recipes to stick to healthy diet. This was the first one on the list and it turned out excellent. Although I had it for lunch, I don’t know if I would recommend this for a main course, but definitely a great dinner salad.

    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe

    Ingredients in Apple and Orange Salad Recipe?

    With only few ingredients, it’s quick and easy to make. The only tricky part is cutting the oranges.

    1. Fruit: Apples & Oranges
    2. Dry Fruit: Raisins & Walnuts
    3. For Garnishing: Mint Leaves
    4. For dressing: Vinegar, Olive Oil, Orange or mosambi juice salt and pepper

    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe
    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe

    How to Make this Apple and Orange Salad:

    This apple and orange salad is super easy to make. To make this salad, simply:

    1. Prepare the salad dressing: To make the salad dressing recipe, just whisk all of the ingredients together in a bowl (or shake them up in a mason jar) until combined.
    2. Fruit Cutting: Next you need to peel an orange and cut it in small pieces. Then Core the apples and cut them in small pieces as well, equal to the orange pieces.
    3. Toss all of your salad ingredients together: Add the oranges and apples to the bowl with raisins and add about 2/3 of a cup of roughly chopped walnuts to the salad. Drizzle evenly with the dressing, then toss lightly until combined and voila!!
    4. And…serve!  Sprinkle fresh mint leaves and enjoy!  🙂
    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe

    Other variations to this Apple and Orange Salad recipe

    1. You can add Pecan or roasted almonds in place of Walnuts.
    2. You can use ground Cinnamon to spice up your Salad.
    3. You can also add some honey to sweeten your Salad as per your taste.
    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe
    Apple and Orange Salad Recipe

    Bismillah let’s get started.
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    Apple Orange Salad Recipe (Healthy & Easy!)

    A light, refreshing Apple and Orange Salad loaded with apples, oranges, raisins and walnuts with a flavorful dressing – perfect as an appetizer or entree!
    Keyword 30 minutes meals, apple, clean eating, fruit, fruit salad, healthy, Lunch, orange, Ramadan, salad, walnuts
    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Total Time 15 minutes
    Servings 4
    Author Bushra Waheed

    Ingredients

    For Salad Dressing:

    • 1 tbsp olive oil
    • 1 tbsp vinegar
    • 4 tbsp orange juice freshly squeezed
    • 1/4 tsp salt
    • 1/4 tsp black pepper freshly ground

    For Salad:

    • 2 oranges peeled, seeded, sectioned and chopped
    • 3 red apples cored and cut into small pieces
    • 1/2 cup raisins
    • 1/2 cup walnuts roughly chopped
    • few mint leaves chopped (optional)

    Instructions

    • In a large bowl, whisk the olive oil, vinegar, orange juice, salt and black pepper.
    • Set it aside.
    • Peel the orange and cut it into small pieces.
    • Core the apples and cut them in small pieces.
    • Add the oranges, apples, walnuts to the bowl with raisins.
    • Toss everything together very well.
    • Adjust the seasoning.
    • If desired, garnish with fresh mint leaves.
    • Delicious Apple and Orange Salad is ready to serve.
    • Enjoy!

    Notes

    Want more Salad Inspiration? 

    If you’re looking for more side salad inspiration, here are a few more of my faves:

    Hope that you all enjoy this one as much as we have!  Enjoy:)

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    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe
    Feel-Good Apple and Orange Salad Recipe

    What are your favorite salads? Leave me a comment below to inspire my next salad recipe!

  • Skip the Store-Bought: The Perfect Homemade Fruit Cake Recipe!!

    Fruit Cake

    An quick and easy fruit cake recipe for tea time. Best eaten fresh. Enjoy this yummy fruit cake flavored with orange zest, vanilla essence and black currant.

    Fruit Cake Recipe
    Photo: Fruit Cake Recipe

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    Everyone’s Favorite Fruit Cake Recipe

    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Cook Time 45 minutes
    Total Time 1 hour
    Servings 6
    Author Bushra Waheed

    Ingredients

    • 4 eggs beaten
    • 200 gm butter
    • 1 cup caster sugar
    • 1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
    • 2 cups flour
    • 1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    • a pinch of salt
    • 1/4 cup asharfi
    • 1/4 cup raisin
    • 1/4 cup black currant
    • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
    • 1/2 teaspoon orange peel
    • a pinch of Yellow food color

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven on 180 degree C.
    • Grease a 8 inch cake pan or mold and set aside.
    • Take a large bowl, cream butter with sugar.
    • Stir in the vanilla essence.
    • Now add eggs.
    • In another bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
    • Slightly add flour mixture into egg mixture.
    • Stir in the lemon juice, orange peel, black currant, raisin, ashrafi and food color.
    • Pour this mixture into the prepared baking pan.
    • Top with nuts (optional).
    • Bake in the preheated oven for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
    • Let it cool completely and cut into slices. Fruit Cake is ready to serve. ENJOY!!

    Notes

    Serve with Tea or Coffee.

    If you like Fruit Cake Recipe and make it then let me know your feedback by commenting below.

  • A Taste of Afghanistan: Aromatic Afghani Pulao Recipe

    Afghani Pulao

    Afghani Pulao is the national dish of Afghanistan. Made with Aromatic Fine Rice With Carrots, Raisins, Spices and meat. Give it a try!!

    Afghani Pulao Recipe
    Photo: Afghani Pulao Recipe

    Check it out the Afghani Pulao Recipe here!!

     

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    [one_fourth]Prep Time:15 minutes[/one_fourth] [one_fourth]Cook Time:45 minutes[/one_fourth] [one_fourth]Servings: 5[/one_fourth] [one_fourth_last]Difficulty Level: Medium[/one_fourth_last]

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    • 3 cup of fine quality rice
    • 1 kg chicken
    • 2 large onions,finely chopped
    • 1 tsp black pepper
    • 2 medium carrots,grated
    • Half cup of raisins (kishmish)
    • 1 tsp cumin seeds
    • Salt to taste

    [/tab] [tab]Yield: 5 servings

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    Directions:
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    Step 1

    Put some oil in frying pan, Fry one chopped onion in oil until it is light brown.

    Step 2

    Take out onion and mash it to make a pulp.

    Step 3

    Put chicken pieces Use the same oil to brown the.

    Step 4

    Add a cup or so of water, salt and pepper, simmer it till become tender.

    Step 5

    Remove the meat, and add the ground onion to the stock.

    Step 6

    Cook until 1 cup of stock remains.

    Step 7

    Add the 2 grated carrots and cook them in oil on low heat until light brown.

    Step 8

    Add raisins and fry till plump.

    Step 9

    Drain and set aside.

    Step 10

    Boil the rice (become little soft) and drain the rice water.

    Step 11

    Put the rice into a large size pan.

    Step 12

    Sprinkle cumin seeds.

    Step 13

    Pour the meat stock over it and stir.

    Step 14

    Put the chicken meat in to the Layer half of the blend of raisin and carrots over rice.

    Step 15

    Cover the pan tightly and give the low heat for 20 minutes.

    Step 16

    Sprinkle raisin and carrot mixture on surface.Delicious Afghani Pulao is ready to serve.

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    • Serve warm with salad.

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    If you like Afghani Pulao Recipe and make it then let me know your feedback by commenting below.And if you know more innovative ways in which we can utilize this mouth watering Afghani Pulao, do share with us and we would be glad to give it a try.