This flavorful citrus arugula salad is just what you need to start off your first dinner course or for a refreshing lunch. Along with a sweet onion citrus dressing, it pairs beautifully with the peppery arugula, avocados, and pecans to hit all the right notes.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy: Getting enough veggies has never been simpler, and while it looks and tastes complex, this arugula and citrus salad comes together fast.
- Fresh: Wholesome and simple ingredients give you fresh flavors that can’t be beat.
- Healthy: Made with arugula, oranges, onions, avocado, and pecans, you have a broad spectrum of nutritious ingredients all in one dish!
Nutrition For Mental Health
Arugula contains vitamins and minerals that do a body good! It contains vitamins C, K, A, folate, as well as calcium and potassium. Arugula is rich in vitamin K, which has been shown to reduce the risk of depressive symptoms in US adults.
Ingredients + Substitutions
The easy ingredients in this arugula citrus salad can be found anywhere, and you might even have them in your kitchen already!
A full list of ingredients with exact amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Citrus Arugula Salad
There are few things simpler than this citrus salad with arugula! It’s ready in no time, and you can serve it with my sweet onion citrus dressing or another dressing of your choice!
- Make a bed of arugula on a large platter or a large shallow bowl. Add onion, orange slices, avocado, and pecans on top.
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- Drizzle on citrus sweet onion salad dressing. Toss and enjoy!
Servings Ideas
Citrus and arugula salad is great for a bountiful lunch or for serving guests. Plan your dinner menu with my dairy-free potato leek soup, pumpkin chili, or lentil carrot soup, then serve veggie pot pie. Refreshing pumpkin spice lemonade or my pomegranate-infused water complements it well, and for dessert, dairy-free apple pie is the ideal finish.
Storage Tips
Since this salad has avocado, it’s best to eat it quickly, within 24 hours, or else the avocado will turn brown and the arugula will get soggy. If saving any for later, keep it free of dressing to prevent the whole thing from becoming wilted.
FAQ
Arugula has a nice, peppery flavor that works great with a variety of fruits. I use oranges in this recipe, though you can try your favorite berries, peaches, plums, apples, pears, mango, or even dried fruits like figs or cranberries in a pinch.
Fruits and nuts are a great match for an arugula salad. In my recipe, I’ve included arugula, sweet onion for contrast, oranges, avocados, and chopped pecans.
Arugula is incredibly healthy, though watercress and spinach may just have it beat. Still, the naturally peppery taste is a nice change of pace, which can help you gobble up more veggies if you’re tired of the same old salad routine.
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Recipe
Citrus Arugula Salad
Ingredients
Salad
- 5 ounces arugula
- 1/2 small sweet onion, thinly sliced
- 2 oranges, peeled + sliced (I used blood orange and cara cara)
- 2 medium avocados, sliced
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
- 1 sweet onion and citrus dressing
Instructions
- Make a bed of arugula on a large platter or a large shallow bowl. Add onion, orange slices, avocado, and pecans on top.
- Drizzle on salad dressing. Toss and enjoy!
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Notes
Arugula contains vitamins and minerals that do a body good! It contains vitamins C, K, A, folate, as well as calcium and potassium. Arugula is rich in vitamin K, which has been shown to reduce the risk of depressive symptoms in US adults. Storage Tips
Since this salad has avocado, it’s best to eat it quickly, within 24 hours, or else the avocado will turn brown and the arugula will get soggy. If saving any for later, keep it free of dressing to prevent the whole thing from becoming wilted.
Nutrition
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Reference
Zhang, Y., Tan, W., Xi, X., Yang, H., Zhang, K., Li, S., Chen, X., & Zuo, H. (2023). Association between vitamin K intake and depressive symptoms in US adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2013-2018. Frontiers in nutrition, 10, 1102109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1102109
Delicious!
Thanks!
This salad is so good! I’m obsessed with the dressing!
Yay!