Recipe: Appetizing Waldorf Salad

Waldorf Salad. Waldorf Salad is a favorite around here, particularly in the fall when apples and walnuts are in season. It's especially popular around the holidays, gracing many a Thanksgiving and holiday spread. A Waldorf salad is a fruit and nut salad generally made of fresh celery, apples, walnuts, and grapes, dressed in mayonnaise, and traditionally served on a bed of lettuce as an appetizer or a light meal.

I wanted to find a recipe I could throw all that leftover Thanksgiving turkey into! Waldorf Salad is a favorite side dish that originated in New York City at the Waldorf Hotel. My husband says this was a staple at nearly every Sunday or holiday meal growing up. You can have Waldorf Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Waldorf Salad

1. You need of walnuts.
2. You need of mini-marshmallows.
3. It's of sliced celery.
4. Prepare of large apples I used gala apples.
5. You need of lemon juice.
6. Prepare of salt.
7. It's of sugar.
8. Prepare of raisins.
9. It's of dates diced.
10. You need of mayonnaise.
11. Prepare of heavy cream.

We love this traditional Waldorf Salad recipe made with crisp apples, grapes, celery and walnuts in a creamy dressing on Boston Bib lettuce. Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen. When ready to serve, toss walnuts into the salad. This Waldorf Salad is a classic salad that will surely hit the spot, packed with chicken, apples, pears and grapes and a creamy and delicious dressing.

Waldorf Salad instructions

1. Take the pits out of the dates. Dice the dates. Get your raisins, slice the celery. Take the core out of apples.
2. Dice the apples. The add the salt sugar, and lemon juice. Mix well covering all the apples with the lemon juice. This is done so the apple pieces will not turn brown..
3. Toast the walnuts. Then whip the cream and mayonnaise. Add the raisins, dates, celery, and the lemon juice into the mayonnaise cream mixture..
4. Add the walnuts and marshmallows mix well. Cover chill 1 hour before serving. I hope you enjoy!!!.

This basic Waldorf salad is a classic combination of apples, celery, mayonnaise, and walnuts. This is the original Waldorf Salad recipe which I clipped out of the newspaper several years ago. My mother made this salad often--it must have been a favorite of hers also. This Waldorf salad might be one of the most classic salads ever! The classic Waldorf Salad makes a delicious salad recipe.

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