15 Best Winter Salad Recipes

15 of my best Winter salad recipes! These fresh and healthy Winter salad recipe ideas use seasonal fruits and vegetables, like citrus fruits, apples, pears, roasted butternut squash or sweet potatoes!

Salads are not only for summer! I searched through my recipes for winter salad ideas and selected my 15 best winter salad recipes to share with you here, all in one convenient post. These are all healthy salads we love and make on repeat throughout the winter months.

Winter weather can keep us indoors and make us more susceptible to catching colds and 'flu. It's easy to slip into the habit of eating more comfort foods, but adding a fresh healthy salad to our table can brighten up any meal.

👍🏼Tips for making the best winter salads

Consider adding foods rich in Vitamin C like oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, berries, or pomegranate to your bowl of greens. Try a variety of leafy greens like spinach, kale, cabbage or arugula. Organic salad mixes with healthy greens are readily available now and make salads far more exciting than simply relying on romaine.

Keep your salads varied and interesting. For example, try using vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, carrots, Brussels sprouts, roasted squash or sweet potatoes.

Plan ahead. Make an extra salad for dinner and pack it for lunch. Many of these winter salad recipes use ingredients that will hold up beautifully for lunch. Just pack your dressing separately in a container and add it at lunchtime.

To make it easier for you to find what you're looking for, I've sorted these winter salad recipes into three categories: salads with citrus fruit, those with fall fruits and salads with veggies.

Click on the green button under each photo to take you to the recipe.

🍊Salads with Citrus Fruit

Get a boost of Vitamin C and more when you add citrus fruits, like oranges, grapefruit, blood oranges, mandarins and satsumas. Don't forget kiwi, too!

Grapefruit-Orange Avocado Salad with Fennel

Banish the winter blues with this cheerful bright Grapefruit-Orange Avocado Salad with Fennel. this winter citrus salad is bursting with Vitamin C.

Grapefruit-Orange Avocado Salad with Fennel

Winter Citrus Salad with Arugula and Goat Cheese

This Winter Citrus Salad with Arugula and Goat Cheese is bursting with sweet oranges, fresh mint and spicy arugula and it's topped with tangy cheese and flaked almonds. It makes a beautiful accompaniment to any winter meal.

Winter Citrus Salad with Arugula and Goat Cheese

Kale and Cara Cara Orange Salad

A healthy kale salad with Cara Cara oranges, toasted almonds, hints of fennel and optional cheese. It's a refreshingly sweet winter salad.

Kale and Cara Cara Orange Salad

Pomegranate Mandarin Salad with Avocado and Feta

This Pomegranate Mandarin Salad with Avocado and Feta is a festive salad for any winter meal! It's bursting with fruit rich in Vitamin C, crunchy pecans and creamy avocado. Top it with crumbled feta or goat cheese.

Pomegranate Mandarin Salad with Avocado and Feta

Kiwi Mandarin Spinach Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

This Kiwi Orange Salad has a winning combination of healthy greens and colourful fruit, rich in Vitamin C to boost your immune system! Delicious with a Creamy Avocado Dressing, it makes a beautiful salad for dinner or lunch.

Kiwi Mandarin Spinach Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint

This Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint is definitely green, but it's not your typical green salad! Tender butter lettuce, crisp cucumbers and heart-healthy kiwi fruit are drizzled with Lime Vinaigrette in this tasty salad!

Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint

Watermelon Radish and Satsuma Spinach Salad

Vibrant colours and a lively contrast in flavours and textures in this watermelon radish salad with oranges will brighten any meal. Nestled in a bed of baby spinach, sweet Satsuma oranges and maple-glazed pecans round out this winter salad.

Watermelon Radish and Satsuma Spinach Salad

🍐 Salads with Apples, Pears or Persimmons

Fall fruits add natural sweetness to these nutritious salads!

Winter Persimmon Kale Salad with Pomegranate

This beautiful Winter Persimmon Salad makes a delicious side dish for holiday dinners, or for any weeknight meal. Use prepared kale slaw, add persimmons, pomegranate and feta cheese and toss with maple-balsamic dressing.

Winter Persimmon Kale Salad with Pomegranate

Crispy Fennel Apple Chopped Salad with Walnuts

Up your salad game with this tasty Fennel Apple Chopped Salad with Walnuts and Feta Cheese. Full of Mediterranean flavours, this makes a crunchy side salad. Plan to make extra for brown bag lunches!

Crispy Fennel Apple Chopped Salad with Walnuts

Harvest Quinoa Salad with Cranberries and Pears

Make this gluten-free spinach quinoa salad with cranberries and pears for a healthy lunch or a side dish. Full of harvest fruit and nuts and tossed with Apple Cider Vinaigrette.

Harvest Quinoa Salad with Cranberries and Pears

🥦 Winter Salads with Veggies

Crisp greens, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and squash all make healthy, delicious additions to a salad in the winter months.

Sweet Potato Mandarin Quinoa Salad with Orange Ginger Dressing

A healthy winter salad on a base of crisp greens, topped with roasted sweet potatoes, quinoa, mandarin orange segments, pomegranate seeds, red onion and avocado. It's all tied together with a fabulous ginger orange vinaigrette. Gluten-free, paleo and vegan.

Sweet Potato Mandarin Quinoa Salad with Orange Ginger Dressing

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Cranberries and Pecans

Sweetened with apples and cranberries, this shredded Brussels Sprout Salad is a perfect side dish for a fall or winter meal.

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Cranberries and Pecans

Honey-Dijon Broccoli Salad with Cranberries

This vegetarian Broccoli Salad is mayo-free but tastes even better with Honey-Dijon Dressing. Great for potlucks and parties!

Honey-Dijon Broccoli Salad with Cranberries

Butternut Squash Salad with Cranberries and Feta

Rich autumn flavours and rustic warm colours make this Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Cranberries a favourite choice for fall or winter!

Butternut Squash Salad with Cranberries and Feta

Roasted Sweet Potato Spinach Salad with Maple Walnuts and Bacon

This Roasted Sweet Potato Spinach Salad with Maple-Glazed Walnuts, Pomegranate and Bacon makes a nutritious lunch or a festive salad for a holiday dinner.

Roasted Sweet Potato Spinach Salad with Maple Walnuts and Bacon

Which of these healthy winter salads will you make first?

Try some of my favourite salad dressing recipes, too! You'll find 8 salad dressing ideas in this post:

How to Make Homemade Salad Dressing

Enjoy!