This pretty pear and pomegranate salad recipe is festive and delicious! Â Perfect for when you want to eat lighter and healthier!
Want a fun, colorful salad to eat after the holidays?
Yes, I do too!
This pear and pomegranate salad is so tasty and satisfying that you could eat it as your main meal if you wanted to.  Christopher and I usually split one and combine it with a main dish. Usually.
But sometimes, I want to have only salad for dinner. When that happens, I make sure Christopher gets a pear pomegranate salad of his own. We can’t have him dipping his errant fork into mine now, can we!
Don’t get me wrong. I’m willing to share. But when the pretty pear pomegranate salad is my whole meal, then I feel like a mama bear defending her cubs.
Once you taste this salad, you will see why I would respond that way. Â It’s a nice combination of flavors that blend well, without being too sweet.
You could say it’s perfect!
What makes it even more perfect is the bacon in it.
Don’t you love bacon? Â I do.
How to make Pear and Pomegranate Salad
The ingredients:Â pomegranate, a pear, uncooked bacon, tomatoes, cucumber and Boston lettuce.
First process shots for the PaPS:
- Bacon cooked and pat down with a paper towel to take off the grease
- Boston lettuce, tore into pieces and 5 slices of cucumber placed to each salad
- 5 grape tomatoes added to each salad
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and line a jelly pan with foil
- Lay strips of bacon on the pan and bake for 20 minutes
- As the bacon is baking (tongue twister), remove pomegranate seeds
- Take nubs off of Boston lettuce and rip lettuce into bite size pieces
- Divide lettuce between two shallow bowls
- Place cucumber slices and grape tomatoes on lettuce
More process shots:
- 4 slices of pear on each salad
- Pomegranate seeds sprinkled on
- Bacon crumbled and placed on salads
More steps:
- Slice the pear in thinnish slices and place on salad
- Liberally add pomegranate seeds on salads
- Crumble 3 pieces of bacon and distribute them between the two salads  (Bag up the remaining bacon for later use)
- Shave fresh parmesan cheese and sprinkle them on the salads
I dribble some balsamic dressing on the salads and we are good to go!
Delicious! Â We enjoyed eating these pear and pomegranate salads and you will too!
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And as always, may all your dishes be delish!
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- 1 head Boston lettuce (or any lettuce you like), torn into bite sized pieces
- 1 Cucumber cut into slices
- 10 Tomatoes
- 1 Pear sliced
- 2 tbsp Pomegranate seeds
- 3 slices cooked bacon crumpled
- 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese shavings
- 4 tablespoons balsamic dressing
- Preheat oven to 400 F
- Line jelly roll pan with foil and lay bacon on pan
- Bake for 20 minutes, pat dry and set aside
- Place lettuce in two bowls
- Add cucumbers, tomatoes, pear slices, pomegranate seeds, crumpled bacon and parmesan cheese
- Dribble dressing on salad
- Eat
- Smile
- Enjoy
I use a certain amount of the ingredients but you can use any amount. Â Suit yourself.
This salad looks so lovely. I am a big fan of pomegranate in salads. And combining it with parmesan is a great idea. I don’t like to share my salads with my husband either! đŸ™‚
Hehe Jeni! đŸ™‚ Thank you!
Salty, sweet with a bit of tanginess! This is my kind of salad! I’m a huge pear fan so I am super happy to have found this recipe! One more new way to enjoy it! đŸ™‚
Thank you Joyce! I appreciate the comment!
I make a salad very similar to this around the holidays, it’s one of my most requested recipes. I’ll have to start sharing your version, as well. Looks delightful!
Thank you Rae. I appreciate that!
Fresh & Flavorful! My favorite things in a salad!
Mine too Jillian!
This salad has the right name. It is very pretty and you used all my favorite flavors. Pomegranates with pear and bacon? This sounds amazing!!!
Thanks so much Edyta!!
This salad is seriously made of all of my favorite things!! I love pear and pomegranate together in salad but I haven’t thought to add bacon! YUMMMM
Yay Dominique!! It’s such a yummy salad.
Such a pretty salad and pears are so good this time of year! I love that you added a bit of bacon too đŸ˜‰
Hehe! Right? Thanks Carrie!
I would never order seven pieces of bacon, but I’ll be honest. I might eat them all if that’s what I was served! Ha! Your salad is gorgeous. Thanks for the recipe!
Hehe Becky! Thank you đŸ™‚ !
SEVEN!?! Seven pieces of bacon?! That breakfast should’ve come with a complementary EKG. Lol. This salad sounds so light and refreshing though- I love pomegranate!
Hehe Sarah! I know, too much!
I love pear in a salad as it is not too sweet and adds a nice flavor and texture too! The bacon is a huge plus and I would almost call this a BLT salad with pear! Thanks for sharing a great recipe!
Thank you Analida!!
This looks like the perfect dinner salad to me. Love those tasty little gems that just pop in you mouth. Bacon makes everything taste good.
I totally agree Gloria đŸ˜‰
And those bacon strips are something that we really need today! LOL Your salad is amazing!
Thanks Helena đŸ™‚
Bacon, pear & balsamic dressing sound like a winning salad to me.
Thank you Sharon!
Salad pics looks awesome.I love pomegranate.But cutting and opening of pomegranate is already a challenge.
Thank you Ruchi!
Wow – 7 pieces of bacon sounds like a LOT!! This salad looks like a much nicer way to enjoy a bit of bacon without going overboard. Love the mix of fruits with it for that sweet and salty flavor combo!
Thank you Ashley! I so agree!
It’s just so pretty! I don’t want to be shallow, but that makes it pretty darn appealing đŸ˜‰
Hehe. I agree! We eat with our eyes!
Love pears and pomegranates, so I can only imagine that this salad would be absolutely delicious! Beautiful photos, too!
Thank you Christine!
You had me at pear but you hooked me at bacon! Salty and sweet is the best combination especially in a salad! Balsamic dressing is definitely the way to go with this salad.
Hehe Lauren!! Bacon makes the world go ’round!
This is such a delicious salad I love the bacon with the pears and pomegranates!
Thanks Eileen! The flavors together is so yummy!
I feel so virtuous eating this salad. And I LOVE pears! Thanks for such a great way to serve them!