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Recipe: Candied Walnut–Apple Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

Anna Mowry

Anna Mowry

November 05, 2013

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Recipe for candied walnut–apple salad with lemon vinaigrette, adapetd by the James Beard Foundation

We love Thanksgiving just as much as anyone. But with the holiday comes the specter of refrigerators bulging with persistent, heavy leftovers. It's enough to make us preemptively scramble for lighter fare.

This simple but flavorful salad comes from some folks who know a thing or two about the perils of gluttony: the team from Jack Stack, a family of barbecue restaurants in the Kansas City area. It's a classic mix of arugula, puckery Granny Smith apples, raw red onions, and blue cheese—and a welcome bit of relief from those towering platters of succulent, hickory-smoked 'cue and burnt ends.

Get the recipe here.