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Pear and Pomegranate Salad

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This pretty pear and pomegranate salad recipe is festive and delicious!  Perfect for when you want to eat lighter and healthier!

Balsamic dressing on the pretty pear and pomegranate salad

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.  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?  I do.

How to make Pear and Pomegranate Salad

Pomegranate, pear, bacon, cucumber, tomato and Boston salad

The ingredients: pomegranate, a pear, uncooked bacon, tomatoes, cucumber and Boston lettuce.

First process shots for the PaPS:

  1. Bacon cooked and pat down with a paper towel to take off the grease
  2. Boston lettuce, tore into pieces and 5 slices of cucumber placed to each salad
  3. 5 grape tomatoes added to each salad

Collage of process shots for the pear and pomegranate salad

Steps:

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and line a jelly pan with foil
  2. Lay strips of bacon on the pan and bake for 20 minutes
  3. As the bacon is baking (tongue twister), remove pomegranate seeds
  4. Take nubs off of Boston lettuce and rip lettuce into bite size pieces
  5. Divide lettuce between two shallow bowls
  6. Place cucumber slices and grape tomatoes on lettuce

More process shots:

  1. 4 slices of pear on each salad
  2. Pomegranate seeds sprinkled on
  3. Bacon crumbled and placed on salads

Collage of process shots for the pear and pomegranate salad 2

More steps:

  1. Slice the pear in thinnish slices and place on salad
  2. Liberally add pomegranate seeds on salads
  3. Crumble 3 pieces of bacon and distribute them between the two salads  (Bag up the remaining bacon for later use)
  4. Shave fresh parmesan cheese and sprinkle them on the salads

Shaved fresh parmesan cheese on the pretty pear and pomegranate salad. There is the bowl of pomegranate seeds and a cheese grater

I dribble some balsamic dressing on the salads and we are good to go!

Balsamic dressing on the pretty pear and pomegranate salad. The salads look delicious!

Delicious!  We enjoyed eating these pear and pomegranate salads and you will too!

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Balsamic dressing on the pretty pear pomegranate salad
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Pretty Pear and Pomegranate Salad
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 
Easy, healthy and delicious!
Course: Salad
Cuisine: Salad
Keyword: pear and pomegranate salad
Servings: 2 salads
Calories: 216 kcal
Author: Elaine Benoit
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
Make it!
  1. Preheat oven to 400 F
  2. Line jelly roll pan with foil and lay bacon on pan
  3. Bake for 20 minutes, pat dry and set aside
  4. Place lettuce in two bowls
  5. Add cucumbers, tomatoes, pear slices, pomegranate seeds, crumpled bacon and parmesan cheese
  6. Dribble dressing on salad
  7. Eat
  8. Smile
  9. Enjoy
Recipe Notes

I use a certain amount of the ingredients but you can use any amount.  Suit yourself.

Nutrition Facts
Pretty Pear and Pomegranate Salad
Amount Per Serving (2 cups)
Calories 216 Calories from Fat 189
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 21g 32%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 28mg 9%
Sodium 438mg 18%
Potassium 2059mg 59%
Total Carbohydrates 49g 16%
Dietary Fiber 12g 48%
Sugars 32g
Protein 14g 28%
Vitamin A 159.4%
Vitamin C 118.1%
Calcium 17.8%
Iron 18.3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Comments

  2. Joyce

    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! 🙂

    Reply

  3. Rae

    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!

    Reply

  9. Sarah

    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!

    Reply

  17. Christine

    Love pears and pomegranates, so I can only imagine that this salad would be absolutely delicious! Beautiful photos, too!

    Reply

  18. lauren

    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.

    Reply

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