Swiss Chard Salad with Toasted Walnuts makes the perfect side dish for any dinner.
Swiss Chard Salad with Toasted Walnuts is another recipe I’m sharing with you from my award-winning cookbook, The Performance Paleo Cookbook!
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How to Make This Swiss Chard Salad
Toasty walnuts, lemon and herbs add flavor to this humble green
Chard is such a versatile leafy green, and it’s great served both raw and cooked. It’s particularly rich in vitamin A and lots of antioxidants. The warm walnut dressing wilts the chard just a bit when you pour it over the greens.
If you’re going to prep the salad ahead of time, warm the dressing back up before you add it to the chard. Can’t find chard? Spinach will work just fine!
Swiss Chard Salad with Toasted Walnuts Recipe
Try this delicious Swiss Chard Salad with Toasted Walnuts recipe to add a veggie punch to your next meal. Whole30-friendly and Paleo!
Ingredients
- 1 medium shallot finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic finely chopped
- 1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 tbsp avocado oil
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups walnut halves
- 1 medium bunch Swiss chard sliced
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- In a medium skillet over low heat, combine the shallot, garlic, rosemary, avocado oil, salt and pepper. Cook and stir, about 3 minutes, until the shallots turn translucent and soften. Add the nuts, cooking and stirring on low heat until they’re evenly toasted and lightly browned. Turn off the heat.
- In a large bowl, combine the Swiss chard with the lemon juice and vinegar. Pour the walnut mixture over the chard and toss well to combine.
Recipe Notes
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11 Responses
This sounds great! I’ve never eaten chard raw, but love how the beautiful colors are preserved.
It’s a hearty yet delicate green very accommodating in flavor. I think the colors of food are always my favorite part. 🙂
This salad looks very simple and absolutely delicious. I am short for time and always looking for wicked easy recipes. I will give it a try.
Thanks Webly! And I love that you said wicked easy…I’m from Mass. so that’s in my vernacular 😉 I appreciate that you stopped by!
This recipe sounds great. I am another one who has never eaten chard raw, but would be willing to try it, perhaps mixed with spinach to start? (I have to figure out how to get my husband to eat it, since we extremely rarely eat meals apart.)
You can totally use spinach 🙂
This sounds great! My only problem is I’m allergic to walnut. What other nut can I use?
Hi Nancy,
Are you allergic to any other nuts or just walnut? Pistachios or almonds would be tasty. If you can’t do those then sunflower and toasted pepita seeds would be tasty. 🙂
This is DELICIOUS!
This is really good! I used pecans in place of the walnuts and added feta cheese (which I know is not technically paleo, but was still good). Thanks for sharing! This was the first time I’ve eaten chard uncooked as a salad. I will be making this again! 🙂
Sound like good swaps to me 🙂