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Modified: Mar 7, 2025 Published: Sep 3, 2020· Cathy Brak · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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Fresh Grapefruit Salad with Apple on Greens

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Here's a fresh green salad that's bursting with flavour! Tart grapefruit tempered by sweet apple and carrot blend together beautifully with a honey mustard dressing in this grapefruit salad with greens. It can be prepped and assembled in minutes!

looking down on sliced grapefruit, apples, and radishes, carrots slivers, and pecan halves on a bed of greens

I love this salad because it's a little unusual. It makes an appealing, elegant arrangement with minimal effort. Serve it with chicken, lamb, or pork. And, notice that it suits gluten free, dairy free, paleo, and vegetarian (not served with meat, of course!) diets.

What You'll Need for This Recipe

ingredients for grapefruit and greens salad with labels
  • Lettuce - I like to buy a pre-washed, spring greens mixture that's ready to use. However, you could choose any leaf lettuce, wash it, and tear up the leaves.
  • Grapefruit - Red grapefruit is a little sweeter than white or pink. If you'd like to avoid the tartness often associated with grapefruit, look for a red one.
  • Pecans - Raw pecan halves work nicely. If you prefer to use candied pecans, just double check to be sure they are gluten free, if necessary.

How to Make Grapefruit Salad

Cut carrot into thin sticks resembling matchsticks and arrange them over lettuce on serving plate(s).

toothpick-shaped slices of carrot arranged on a bed of greens on a black plate

Add sliced radishes.

slices of radish added to the salad

Top that with apple slices.

apple slices added on top of salad

Then arrange your grapefruit segments over the salad.

grapefruit segments arranged over top of salad

Scatter on some pecan halves.

grapefruit salad with pecan halves

Drizzle salad dressing over it all, and serve.

grapefruit salad glistening with drizzled salad dressing

Recipe FAQ's

Can I make this salad ahead of time?

You can certainly prepare the salad dressing ahead. You could also cut up the carrot, radishes, and grapefruit an hour or two before serving. If you want to slice the apple ahead of time, keep it doused in salad dressing in the refrigerator to slow down the browning process.

How do you cut grapefruit segments for a grapefruit salad?

Using a sharp knife, slice off the top and bottom of the fruit taking little more than the peel. Stand it on one end and cut away the peel from top to bottom, working your way around the grapefruit. Then, cut out individual segments from as close to the membrane as you can. Amanda at Heartbeet Kitchen has an excellent tutorial with photos.

grapefruit salad on black plate seen from a side angle, slim carrot sticks scattered in foreground

Salad Gazette

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This recipe for grapefruit salad with greens first appeared this summer in the inaugural edition of the Salad Gazette, a collaboration of recipe creators from around the globe. Download your own free copy to get the 30 other recipes. Not all of them are gluten free, but being salads, naturally most of them are.

More Fresh Salad Recipes to Enjoy

  • Personalized Garden Salad with Herb Vinaigrette
  • Broccoli Bacon Slaw
  • Watermelon Salad with Blueberries and Basil
  • Strawberry Spinach Salad with Feta and Poppy Seed Dressing

Recipe

looking down on sliced grapefruit, apples, and radishes, carrots slivers, and pecan halves on a bed of greens

Grapefruit Salad with Greens

The tartness of grapefruit tempered by the sweetness of apple and carrot blend together beautifully with a honey mustard dressing in this fresh, green salad. It pairs well with chicken, lamb, or pork.
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Course: Salad, salad dressing
Cuisine: American, Australia, Canadian
Diet: Gluten Free
Keyword: apple salad, grapefruit salad, green salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 2
Calories: 473kcal
Author: Cathy
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Ingredients

Salad

  • 2 cups (78 g) leafy spring lettuce greens
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 apple, unpeeled
  • 1 pink or red grapefruit
  • 3 radishes
  • 2 tablespoons (14 g) pecan pieces

Dressing

  • ¼ cup (59 ml) olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons (30 ml) apple cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) dijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) honey
  • 1 small clove garlic
  • ¼ teaspoon (1.5 g) fine sea salt
  • freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Salad Dressing

  • Peel and mince the garlic finely.
  • Whisk the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl, or combine them in a jar and shake them together.

Salad

  • Cut the carrot into matchstick-sized pieces. Core and slice the apple, but don’t peel it. Cut the peel away from the grapefruit and cut it into segments. Remove the ends from the radishes and slice them thinly.
  • Arrange lettuce into serving bowl or plate. Layer on carrots, radishes, apples, and grapefruit. Sprinkle on pecans. Drizzle with salad dressing.

Notes

  • This salad is very pretty arranged on individual plates.
  • You may have salad dressing left over, which you can save for another purpose.

Nutrition

Calories: 473kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 36g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 352mg | Potassium: 803mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 23g | Vitamin A: 24284IU | Vitamin C: 54mg | Calcium: 121mg | Iron: 3mg

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