Fig Salad with Beets
This yellow beet and fig salad recipe is easy, colorful and flavorful. Eat it as your meal or a side salad as it’s satisfying either way.
I love salad. All kinds of salad. However, it wasn’t always this way.
When I was a vegetarian and vegan, I became so sick of salads that it made me want literally cry that, once again, I had to eat greens, greens and more boring greens.
The things that cracks me up now is, I didn’t have a lot of imagination back then when it came to salads. But you have to remember, it was the 1990s and there weren’t things like this delicious yellow beet and fig salad. At least that I could see.
But this salad? It’s so delicious and satisfying that I could eat it at least once a week.
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How to make the fig salad
Step one
Gather the ingredients – figs, tomatoes, roasted yellow beets, avocado, snap peas and slivered almonds.
Step two
Place a handful of arugula and baby romaine lettuce in each bowl. I use two shallow bowls.
Step three
Slice the beets and lay them on the salad.
Step four
Slice the tomatoes and lay them on the salad along with some snap peas.
Step five
Slice the avocado and cucumber and add them to the salad.
Step six
Slice up two figs and add them to the salad and sprinkle on some slivered almonds.
I use just a simple balsamic vinaigrette and dribble both olive oil and vinegar over the salad.
I hope you enjoyed this beet and fig salad recipe!!
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Yellow Beet and Fig Salad
Ingredients
- 2 cup arugula
- 2 cup baby romaine lettuce
- 1 large cooked yellow beet sliced
- 1 cup snap peas handful
- 8 thin slices of cucumber
- 1 tomato sliced thinly and halved
- 1/2 an avocado sliced
- 2 figs sliced
- 3 tablespoons slivered almonds
- 1 tablespoon olive oil dribbled
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar dribbled
Instructions
- Add lettuce to a good sized bowl
- Add beets, snap peas, cucumber, tomato, avocado, figs and slivered almonds
- Dribble olive oil and balsamic vinegar on salad
- Eat
- Smile
- Enjoy
Notes
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This looks like the perfect light salad to have for lunch! Yum!
Thanks Lauren!
I love figs but have never cooked with them! Thanks for the inspiration…I think it’s time!
Thank you Kathi!!
I love figs! This is totally my kinda salad!
Thank you so much Suzy 🙂
I have yet to use yellow beets and the combination with figs sounds amazing! Thanks!
Thank you so much Ginny! I appreciate it.
I am so down for the combo of beets and figs. I’m pretty much down for figs and anything, but this is especially compelling. Bonus points for being gorgeous!
Thanks so much Jeni!! I appreciate it!
Figs! How I love thee. Great salad.
Thank you Chris!!
I’ve never cooked with figs before either, which is ridiculous because I love them. I eat salad almost every weekday for lunch and I’m growing tired of the same thing. This recipe would help me change up my flavors in a fun way! Great job 🙂
Thanks Christina! I love making fun salads – keeps it interesting!
I love all of the beautiful ingredients you’ve added here — especially the golden beets and figs! I’ve never thought to combine them and it sounds just delicious!
It was simply heavenly! Thank you for your comment Marcie!
Such a beautiful salad! Love the colors! I can eat this kind of a salad for every meal.
Thanks so much Zerrin!