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Winter Greens with Pomegranate and Olives

As the parade of buffets, cookies, and cocktails comes our way, let’s make a healthy plan to fill our tummies with a daily salad. This salad of winter greens with pomegranate and olives is your new favorite antidote to holiday overindulgence!

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This is one festive salad. The lacy green-edged frisée lettuce is a party already. Give it a confetti sprinke of tart fruity pomegranate seeds, salty olives, and toasted sunflower seeds and a bright dressing of lemon caper vinaigrette and you’ve got the perfect salad for your holiday gala.

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You will find a little bit of frisée in most purchased salad mixes. Aka mesclun, these mixes include baby lettuce, and most often baby arugula, spinach, chard, and a bit of purple radicchio. To give this salad a respectable share of the frilly frisée, I bought a whole head of frisée lettuce and mixed it in with baby lettuce mix.

closeup of Winter Greens with Pomegranate and Olives sakad with wooden spoon and sunflower seeds

Bright with both orange and lemon juice, the citrus dressing gets its piquant punch from capers. Keep a jar of the little dark green buds in the fridge—capers in their briny liquid last practically forever. With some of that jar of capers, you can make this easy olive and caper tapenade, an appetizer that would be welcome at holiday parties too.

separate bowls of ingredients for Winter Greens with Pomegranate and Olives

Winter Greens with Pomegranate and Olives kitchen notes:

  • Mildly bitter frisée, sometimes called curly endive, is part of the chicory family. Frisée lettuce has a loose head, distinctive feathery leaves, and deliciously bitter and crisp white core. Nowadays, more and more, you can find frisée in supermarket produce sections, as well as farmer’s markets.
  • A ripe pomegranate has tight leather-like red skin and octagonal shape, and that’s what I bought. I expected bright crimson arils, and instead found whitish-pink jewels. But the pale seeds had plenty of sweet fruity flavor. We can’t always judge what’s inside by it’s outside cover, can we?
  • Winter greens with pomegranate and olives is adapted from the winter green salad in Café Flora Cookbook, from Seattle’s renowned vegetarian restaurant.

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Nutrition Facts
Winter Greens with Pomegranate Seeds and Olives
Amount Per Serving
Calories 118 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Sodium 118mg5%
Potassium 212mg6%
Carbohydrates 7g2%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 3g3%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 1715IU34%
Vitamin C 24.3mg29%
Calcium 32mg3%
Iron 0.5mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

13 comments

  • I love that plan, Letty, and I’ve been doing just that eating a salad a day among the Christmas cookies my neighbor brought over! This is very festive and perfect for the season! Reply · 5 December, 2016

    • Thanks Marcie. A salad a day is the way we roll! Reply · 5 December, 2016

  • Only 1-2 pounds?! I must be above average haha! I love the look of this salad! Olives are one of my favorite ingredients and I’m always looking for more excuses to eat them! Reply · 5 December, 2016

    • Haha Izzy! 😉 That’s what the article said–one to two pounds. Shoot I fluctuate like that all year long! Reply · 6 December, 2016

  • Oh I love frisee! I like the bitterness and the appearance is just so cute. Sometimes I have a hard time finding it though. I’m gonna have to keep my eyes peeled so I can make this salad! Reply · 5 December, 2016

    • Liz, I don’t remember frisée being so available either. But Whole Foods and our Kroger store both have organic frisée! I hope you find it too. Reply · 6 December, 2016

  • Love the challenge of a daily salad during the holidays!! This one looks perfect to me! Reply · 5 December, 2016

    • Give us our daily salad! Even if it’s just sliced cucumbers! Thank you Becky. Reply · 6 December, 2016

  • I love the combination of pomegranates and olives!!! So fresh and delicious! Reply · 6 December, 2016

    • Thank you Laura! Reply · 6 December, 2016

  • Teri

    I made this salad for pre-Thanksgiving dinner with extended family and it was a major hit! The sweet ‘n salty combo with mild, no-vinegar dressing put all recent salads I’ve had in the back seat. Plus, what a looker! Thanks, Letty, for this new pomegranate season tradition. Reply · 26 November, 2018

  • Marcy youker

    beautiful salad, very tasty and colorful, thanks for sharing.love your recipes. Reply · 4 December, 2018

    • Thank you Marcy! I’m so glad you wrote and that you love my recipes! <3 Reply · 4 December, 2018

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