Blood Orange and Fennel Salad

This Blood Orange and Fennel Salad features seasonal winter produce like blood oranges, grapefruit, naval oranges, and fennel. It comes together quickly and easily to create a healthy, light, refreshing winter salad.

Winter and salad don’t usually go hand in hand, but this Blood Orange and Fennel Salad is the perfect seasonal winter salad. With citrus and fennel in season, it’s not a surprise that they make a great pair in terms of flavor and texture.

But before telling you more about the Blood Orange and Fennel Salad, I feel like I need to address the elephant in the room: I will be the first to admit how much I’ve neglected my blog. But IRL, I haven’t given up on cooking or baking. If anything, I’m pumping out more food/baked goods than ever (And if you follow me on Instagram you could attest to that. And if you don’t follow me on Instagram, you can, right here.) This whole cooking and baking thing is my real life. I cook every day for my family, and I bake for my sanity.

So why back to the blog now? In real life and via Instagram, I get tons of requests for recipes. And unless I make an effort to write down recipes, they are often lost forever. I’m a perpetual fiddler, always altering recipes, changing ingredients, cooking methods, etc. And more than Instagram, I think my blog is a place where I can most fully share my stuff. The sweet stuff. The savory stuff. The healthy stuff – all the good stuff.

Back to the Blood Orange and Fennel Salad, I bake a ton and cook even more. On Instagram I share almost all of the food I cook for my family and me. And this Blood Orange and Fennel Salad is my favorite winter salad.

All the produce in the Blood Orange and Fennel Salad is in season in the winter. That means all of the ingredients are relatively inexpensive, easy to find, and most importantly, they taste pretty darn good. The salad is savory, tart, sweet, juicy, and crunchy all at the same time.

I sort a feel silly writing out a recipe for this Blood Orange and Fennel Salad because it’s so easy and basic. Check it out below. And for those who find it relevant, this salad is Whole30 compliant, vegan, and gluten-free.

Blood Orange and Fennel Salad

• Author: Aida
• Prep Time: 15 min
• Total Time: 15 min
• Yield: Feeds 4–6 adults as a starter. 1x

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This Blood Orange and Fennel Salad features seasonal winter produce like blood oranges, grapefruit, naval oranges, and fennel. It comes together quickly and easily to create a healthy, light, refreshing winter salad.

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Ingredients

For the Dressing:

4 tbs good quality extra virgin olive oil

2tbs red wine vinegar

salt and pepper

For Salad:

2 naval oranges

4 blood oranges

2 Cara Cara oranges (can be substituted with an additional naval orange)

1 small ruby red grapefruit

1 small red onion, sliced very thin

1 small fennel bulb (about 1 cup) sliced very thin

1 or 2 small, tender celery sticks sliced on an angle very thin

Salad leaves (baby spinach, radicchio, or escarole)

Large pinch of flaky sea salt

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Instructions

For the Dressing:

Whisk together the olive oil and vinegar in a small bowl. Season with salt and pepper.

For the Salad:

To peel all of the citrus fruit use a small serrated knife. Trim off the top and bottom of each fruit.

Sit the fruit on one of the trimmed bottoms, and using the serrated knife, cut along the fruit separating the peel from the flesh, following the curve of the fruit. Make sure to remove the peel and the white pith of the fruit, but keep the fruit’s flesh in tact. The end result should be a spherical fruit naked of its pith and peel. 

Slice peeled citrus crosswise. 

Pile a serving plate with your greens. 

Top with citrus fruit slices.

Scatter the fennel, onions, and celery on top. 

Drizzle with dressing and sprinkle with sea salt. 

 

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