• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Charlotte Pike

Food & Drink Expert

  • About
    • About
  • Consulting
  • Recipes
    • Breakfast
    • Lunch
    • Dinner
    • Baking
    • Recipe Index
  • Shop
  • Contact
    • Substack

Kale, spinach, pomegranate and walnut salad

14 December 2015 By Charlotte Pike Leave a Comment

IMG_9037

Salads are not just for sunny days. In the depths of winter, a salad can be a wonderful thing; full of nourishing ingredients and vibrant flavours to ward off colds and cheer the spirits. In many ways, a good winter salad is more exciting than a summer salad. It’s an unexpected injection of flavour at this cold and dark time of year.

I love interesting salads, packed with interesting flavours and textures. A good salad is a deeply satisfying meal, and this is one of my very favourite winter salads. I adore kale and love it raw in salads. The key is carefully preparing the leaves, picking out any stalks or tough stems, and ensuring that the leaves are shredded into small pieces.

This salad is just wonderful enjoyed on its own, or with some lamb kofte or meatballs to turn it into a complete meal. It’s one I make time and time again at this time of year. I hope you love it too.

Kale, spinach, pomegranate and walnut salad

Charlotte Pike

Serves 4, generously

Ingredients

3 red onions, thinly sliced

25g butter

200g kale, stalks removed and sliced into thin strips

500g baby spinach

25g walnuts, chopped

Seeds from 1 pomegranate

1 bunch dill, chopped

¼ tsp cinnamon

2 tbsp pomegranate molasses

Juice from ½ lemon

Zest of 1 unwaxed lemon

Pinch caster sugar

Sea salt

Olive oil

 

Method

Gently fry the onions in the butter for around 15 minutes until translucent. Set aside and leave to cool.

Once the onions have cooled, combine all the ingredients together, gently tossing to ensure the leaves are evenly dressed. Add enough olive oil to lightly dress the leaves. Season to taste. Serve immediately.

Filed Under: Dinner, Lunch, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: dairy free, gluten free, healthy salads, interesting salad, kale salad, middle eastern salad, pimp your veg, pomegranate salad, salad recipes, winter salad

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

About Charlotte

Charlotte Pike MBE is a food and drink expert with over a decade of experience.

Her work includes writing, teaching, broadcasting and consulting.

Charlotte has written award-winning cookery books, is a professionally trained chef, experienced Executive Chef Tutor and broadcaster. She is a member (and former Chair) of the Guild of Food Writers and is a member of the Slow Food Chef Alliance.

Charlotte lives in the English countryside and is passionate about great food and drink made using the best seasonal ingredients.

Get in touch

  • E-mail
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Search

Visit my shop

Footer

About

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies

Latest Posts

  • Apple Pie
  • Toasted Fig Leaf Ice Cream
  • Niçoise salad
  • Apple Tarte Tatin
  • Roasted Rhubarb

Books

  • Quick Prep Slow Cook Quick Prep Slow Cook £16.99
  • Charlotte's Private Cookery Class Charlotte's Private Cookery Class £250.00
  • Online Consultation - 30 Minutes Online Consultation - 30 Minutes £50.00
  • Online Consultation - 60 Minutes Online Consultation - 60 Minutes £100.00
  • SMOKED by Charlotte Pike SMOKED by Charlotte Pike £18.99

Copyright © 2025 Charlotte Pike.
Website by Callia Web

×

Log In

Forgot Password?

Not registered yet? Create an Account