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Celestial salad gets its name because it tastes heavenly. It is the perfect light summer or spring salad with a lot of flavor and crunch.
Favorite Spring Salad
Celestial Salad has been a family favorite at our house for years. It is always on our Easter menu as well as making frequent appearances on our dinner table throughout the year. As far as I’m concerned it is pretty heavenly.
I especially enjoy this salad in the spring and summer months. There is just something about a salad with oranges in it that says “Spring” to me!
Ingredients
- Romaine Lettuce
- Cucumbers
- Celery
- Mandarin Oranges
- Sugared Almonds
Celestial Salad Dressing
The dressing is very light and is a combination of olive oil, sugar, white vinegar, red vinegar, salt and pepper and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes.
This salad dressing will keep for several weeks in the refrigerator.
How to Make Celestial Salad
- Cut up celery, green onions and cucumbers
- Drain mandarin oranges.
- Sugar almonds using these directions.
- Mix up dressing.
- Combine all ingredients and add dressing.
- Toss to coat and serve.
The original recipe came from The Portland Palate, one of my favorite cookbooks.
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Celestial Salad Recipe
Celestial Salad
Ingredients
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 2 green onions sliced
- 11 oz mandarin oranges drained
- 1 cucumber peeled and diced
- Romaine lettuce torn into pieces
Dressing
- 1/2 tsp salt
- dash of pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 2 Tbsp white vinegar
- 1/2 tsp red wine vinegar
- a sprinkle of red pepper flakes
Sugared Almonds
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 2 Tbsp sugar
Instructions
- Sugar the Almonds
- In a large bowl combine lettuce, celery, green onions, cucumber, oranges and nuts
For dressing:
- Whisk together salt, pepper, oil, sugar, vinegar and red pepper flakes
Sugared Almonds
- To sugar almonds place the sugar and almonds in a small frying pan and stir until the sugar melts and coats the nuts and they turn golden brown. Stir constantly.
- Pour over salad and toss well
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Originally posted May 26, 2015
Sheila says
You mention sugared almonds, but it doesn’t give instructions on how to do it. There are 2 T sugar included in the ingredients. Is that for the almonds? At the end of the dressing ingredients it just says, “sugar the almonds”. Could you please clarify?
Leigh Anne says
I updated the recipe – sorry about that!
Toni says
It still doesn’t say how to sugar the almonds. Just says sugar the almonds.
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
The directions are there but they were kind of hidden, I just updated the recipe to make it easier to find. I also have a tutorial here on how to sugar or candy nuts.https://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/how-to-make-candie-pecans/
Laura says
How many almonds does the recipe call for? It looks like it is maybe supposed to say 1/2.
Thanks!
Leigh Anne says
Should be a 1/2 Cup – I made the change in the recipe. Thanks!
Vicki says
Definitely trying this one – I served a similar salad from your site recently, one with strawberries, and it was a huge hit. Those sugared almonds rock!
Leigh Anne says
This is a good one too – enjoy! You are right about the almonds!!!