Greatest EVER Spinach Orzo Salad

This Spinach Orzo Salad is stuffed with cranberries, creamy goat cheese, tender pasta, and loads of recent spinach tossed in a tangy candy dressing. The salad may be served instantly or stored within the fridge for 2-3 days – making this an superior make-ahead meal for lunch or dinner.

Spinach Salad with Cranberries

The recipe was impressed by the Cranberry Orzo Salad that Princess Cruises serves of their Worldwide Cafe. It’s simply so good! Tender pasta in a sweetly tangy dressing, with tart recent cranberries and sliced almonds. Easy, recent, and scrumptious.

I’ve included extra cruise particulars on the backside of the submit right here for anybody who’s . As quickly as I acquired house from our cruise through the British Isles, I instantly recreated the salad for my household.

As at all times, I cherished the salad, however my guys? The children determined that the recent cranberries had been too tart. (Loopy youngsters!)

So, the following time I made the salad, I went with dried cranberries and it was a win throughout the board. I like this salad each bit as a lot with dried cranberries as I do with recent cranberries – and that’s a good larger win, since recent cranberries aren’t out there quite a lot of weeks a 12 months.

(And until you’re fortunate sufficient to have cranberries stashed in the freezer for this cake, you’ll be caught ready till the vacations to do this superior salad.)

Spinach Orzo Salad

I took our salad to the following stage by including a beneficiant portion of recent child spinach and heat hen. Each the hen and the spinach made it a heartier meal for my household.

And so far as my guys are involved, after I embrace meat that instantly elevates a pasta salad from aspect dish to principal dish standing.

For what it’s price although, the hen on this salad actually is elective, the salad is scrumptious with out it. I would even desire it that method myself.

Spinach Orzo Salad Recipe

You’ll want the next substances to make this:

• olive oil
• orzo pasta
• child spinach
• sliced almonds
• dried cranberries
• crumbled goat cheese
• hen, elective

Dressing Components

• olive oil
• white balsamic vinegar
• honey
• salt and pepper

I’ve used each plain goat cheese and a honey goat cheese for this pasta and so they’re each scrumptious.

Nonetheless, I actually cherished the added taste from the trace of honey within the specialty goat cheese. If you could find it at your retailer, give it a attempt!

Orzo Spinach Salad

To make this salad, you’ll start by toasting the orzo over medium warmth, about 5 minutes, till golden brown. Add 4 cups water, and produce to a boil. Scale back to simmer, and canopy with a lid for 7-8 minutes. Drain any liquid, fluff with fork.

Place the spinach in a big mixing bowl. Add the cooked orzo, cranberries, almonds, and cooked hen – if desired.

In a small bowl or massive measuring cup, mix the oil, vinegar, honey, salt, and pepper. Whisk to mix. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss properly to coat.

Prime with goat cheese and toss frivolously. Serve instantly or retailer within the fridge for as much as 2 days.

Straightforward Salads with Spinach

Contemporary candy berries, crisp greens, crunchy pecans and a drizzle of creamy poppyseed dressing all add as much as one in all our favourite summer season berry salads. Whereas my boys haven’t at all times been the most important salad followers, when this Berry Salad and Poppyseed Dressing are on the desk they’re very blissful to eat their salads.

Crisp child spinach, spring combine lettuces, tart apples, candy raisins, crunchy almonds, and the last word honey cider salad dressing are mixed to create a unbelievable Spinach Apple Salad.

Strawberry Spinach Salad is the proper salad for a summer season night time. Filled with recent greens and candy strawberries, this salad is completed with sliced almonds for simply the correct amount of crunch.

This Spinach Pasta Salad with Tomatoes is a tangy, garlicky, peppery pasta salad that I can’t appear to cease making and consuming on repeat. The mix of crisp, recent spinach with the chewy pasta and the tangy dressing is just irresistible.

{initially printed 4/19/19 – recipe notes and pictures up to date 8/2/23)

A number of years in the past, when Sean and I sailed with Princess Cruises through the British Isles, our mates we had been touring with stored speaking in regards to the cranberry pasta within the Worldwide Cafe. After listening to about it a lot, the following time it was out there, I needed to attempt it.

It was so superb! Tender pasta in a sweetly tangy dressing, with tart recent cranberries and sliced almonds. Easy, recent. and scrumptious.

The International Cafe is a part of the all-inclusive eating choices onboard every cruise ship. The cafe is open 24 hours a day and it’s one in all my favourite locations to seize a chunk to eat every time we cruise.

The morning picks embrace pastries and recent croissants, breakfast sandwiches, quiche, recent fruit, yogurt parfaits, and extra. Later within the day, you’ll discover a choice of small-bite meals and different candy and savory treats.

The picks change each day, so if you discover your favourite meals there, you’ll wish to profit from it.

Ask me how I do know this? <cough> Nutella donuts <cough> I cruised 3x earlier than I managed to snag a much-talked-about Nutella donut and it didn’t disappoint. I’ve realized now to test the picks each day.

Edited so as to add: I cruised the Caribbean with my sister Jenny a few years in the past and as quickly as we had been on the ship for our final cruise (actually, as quickly as we embarked), she and I ended by the Worldwide Cafe and picked up a number of the pasta salad, together with a sandwich, and a few coffees to take to our room and snack on as we had been getting unpacked and settled.

I’m blissful to let you know that Princess’s Cranberry Orzo Salad was each bit as scrumptious as I remembered. And thankfully, now we are able to all take pleasure in it at house too.

Need to take a look at extra of our Medallion Class cruise by the Caribbean? This Jalapeno Honey Butter is impressed by Planks BBQ onboard the Caribbean Princess. And The Dirty Banana milkshake/cocktail is a favourite on each ship.

Disclosure: I’ve partnered with Princess Cruises to share my travels with you. As at all times, all ideas and opinions are my very own. For extra details about Princess Cruises and/or to e-book a cruise go to their website.