This salad is full of so much flavor and texture Giant juicy blackberries, sweet ripe pears, salty bacon and crumbled cheese. Plus a poppy seed vinaigrette made with red wine vinegar. If you’re looking to round it out as a meal salad, it’s great with avocado and/or grilled chicken or even sliced steak.
Ingredient Notes
- Romaine Lettuce
- Spring Mix or other mixed greens
- Chopped Walnuts
- Bacon
- Feta, gorgonzola, or blue cheese
- Red or Green Pears
- Blackberries
- Sugar
- Salt
- Dry Mustard
- Onion
- Red Wine Vinegar
- Neutral oil – like avocado or vegetable
- Poppyseeds
How to Make Blackberry Pear Salad
- In the jar of a blender, combine all the dressing ingredients except the oil and the poppy seeds. Blend until smooth. With the blender running, add the oil in a steady stream. Transfer the dressing to a storage or serving container and whisk in the poppy seeds.
- Combine your salad ingredients. As with all salads, you can add as little or as much of each individual ingredient that you’d like.
- Drizzle or toss with dressing and serve immediately.
Blackberry & Pear Salad with Red Wine Poppyseed Vinaigrette
Juice pears and blackberries, toasted nuts, tangy cheese, and a perfect dressing come together in this great salad!
Ingredients
For the salad
- 1 head romaine lettuce washed and chopped or torn into bite-sized pieces
- 1 package mixed greens
- ⅓ cup chopped toasted walnuts or pecans (candied/glazed, if desired)
- ⅓ cup cooked and crumbled bacon
- ½ cup crumbled gorgonzola blue, or feta cheese
- 1-2 red or green pears sliced
- 1 small package blackberries washed and dried
For the dressing
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoons dry mustard
- ¼ cup diced onion
- ½ cup red wine vinegar
- ¾ cup neutral oil like avocado or vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoons poppy seeds
Instructions
- In the jar of a blender, combine all the dressing ingredients except the oil and the poppy seeds. Blend until smooth.
- With the blender running, add the oil in a steady stream. Transfer the dressing to a storage or serving container and whisk in the poppy seeds. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- In a large bowl, toss together the salad ingredients.
- To serve, either toss the salad in the dressing immediately before serving or allow people to drizzle it on individual salads.
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Questions & Reviews
Just wanted to leave a review of someone who has made and eaten this for others who come to this recipe (since no one has left a review yet) holy moly it rocked my socks off. Everyone at dinner (my family and cousins) were raving about it and went back for more. Three cheers and a well done!
Looks delicious! I love a good (non-boring) salad! We need a few extra veggies to counter all of the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I’ve been baking!
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Can you add everything to a mason jar and shake? I only have a mini processor and can’t drizzle while blending.
Yes, but the oil will separate from everything else, so just give it a really good shake first. Also, If you’re a super-fast whisker, you could whisk it while you drizzle it in really slowly.
this is beautiful and amazing and made my mouth water just now!!!
I’m pretty sure I want to drink that dressing.
I always make a salad from your site for family events and they’re always a hit. Can’t wait to try this one, it looks great!
I make a very similar salad that is one of our favorites, but the addition of bacon is GENIUS!
That vinaigrette sounds so good! Also, love how simple this salad is.
I need to make this. Right now because it’s 1am and I’m eating my nightly ” I’m pregnant and baby is all sorts of hungry” snack .