30 Minute Meals
Blood Orange Salad
Prep
15 minutes
Yield
6
🍊 This Blood Orange Salad showcases underrated blood oranges with their gorgeous color and floral flavor! Easy, fresh, and totally customizable!
Let me tell you, blood oranges are so underrated and don’t get the hype they deserve – especially when they are the main ingredient. Why are we out here giving regular oranges all the attention when you could have the floral and tart flavor of blood oranges, combined with the gorgeous color they add to any dish? This easy blood orange salad is going to open your eyes to that fruit you often bypass in the fruit aisle of a grocery store.
❤️ Why You’ll Love This Blood Orange Salad
- Incredibly Easy: There are only two steps to making this salad – it doesn’t get easier than that.
- Fresh & Tart: This salad delivers both fresh and tart flavors, giving you those perfect sweet and savory combinations.
- Highly Customizable: Get creative with this recipe using grapefruit or regular oranges if blood oranges aren’t available.
- Gorgeous Presentation: The deep red color of blood oranges creates a stunning visual impact on any table.
- Quick Assembly: Perfect for when you need something beautiful and delicious in minutes.
🍲 Ingredients
Blood Oranges – While there isn’t much difference in calories and vitamin levels between blood oranges and regular oranges, they’re both loaded with vitamin C. So much so that one orange provides over 100 percent of your daily vitamin C needs. Blood oranges offer that distinctive floral, tart flavor with gorgeous deep red color that makes this salad visually striking.
Pistachios – These nuts are so tasty and provide healthy fats, fiber, and protein while offering both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. They’re one of my favorite additions to salads – that is, if there are any left while prepping since they’re so addictive to snack on.
👩‍🍳 How to Make Blood Orange Salad
1. To a salad bowl begin supreming the blood orange and squeeze each to remove excess juice.
2. Add the rest of your ingredients to the salad bowl and gently toss.
3. Enjoy!
🪄 Tips and Tricks
- Supreming Technique: Remove all white pith when supreming oranges for the best flavor and presentation.
- Herb Flexibility: Have fun with your herb choices – honestly, any will work, but mint and thyme are personal favorites.
- Timing: Assemble just before serving to prevent the salad from becoming too juicy.
- Color Contrast: The deep red of blood oranges against green herbs creates beautiful visual appeal.
đź—’ Variations
- Citrus Options: Grapefruit or any orange variety works if blood oranges aren’t available.
- Nuts: Walnuts, pine nuts, or almonds can substitute for pistachios.
- Herbs: Experiment with basil, cilantro, or parsley instead of mint and thyme.
- Greens: Add arugula or spinach to make this more of a full salad base.
đź—’ Best served with
- Goat Cheese Salad Towers with Beets
- Phyllo + Prosciutto Wrapped Brie Stuffed Dates
- Plant-Based Pizza Dough
- Salmon & Spinach Puff Pastry Tart
đź‘ť How to Store Leftovers
This blood orange salad is best enjoyed fresh immediately after preparation. If you must store leftovers, keep them in the refrigerator for up to 1 day, though the texture and appearance will be best when freshly made.
🤔 Common Questions
Blood oranges have a distinctive, floral, tart flavor and gorgeous, deep red color, while nutritionally, they’re very similar to regular oranges with the same vitamin C content.
Cut off the top and bottom, remove the peel and white pith, then cut between the membranes to release clean segments.
This blood orange salad is best assembled just before serving to prevent it from becoming too juicy and losing its fresh texture.
Grapefruit or regular oranges work perfectly as substitutes, though you’ll miss the unique color and slightly different flavor profile.
Absolutely! Arugula, spinach, or mixed greens would complement the citrus flavors beautifully and create a more filling salad.
Mint and thyme are excellent choices, but basil, cilantro, or even rosemary can create interesting flavor combinations.
Add them just before serving, or serve them on the side for people to add their own for maximum crunch.
Blood Orange Salad
Ingredients
- 6 blood oranges cut into supremes
- 1 small red onion sliced
- 1 large handful of fresh mint chopped
- 1 tsp fresh thyme
- 1/4 cup pistachios roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 cup vegan or regular feta optional
Instructions
- To a salad bowl begin supreming the blood orange and squeeze each to remove excess juice.
- Add the rest of your ingredients to the salad bowl and gently toss.
- Enjoy!
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I made this for part of my and my wife’s anniversary dinner, she was SO impressed and I really enjoyed it too! Thank you so much
Amazing! Thanks dave! happy to hear that!!
One of the best salads I’ve ever eaten… Great job!
thank you so much, eric!
I just made this salad and it was simply delicious and vibrant in color. Such a refreshing salad!!!
thank you so much, I really love this salad alot!
would you add any lettuce or some kind of green to this, if you did what would it be?
butter lettuce would be PERFECT! So crunch and nice. You could also try peppery arugula!any mixed greens really
Where do you get your blood oranges in Calgary?
you know, sobeys and safeway have them! Or even coop!
I love everything in this salad- can’t wait to make it
you’re going to love it!
Such a beautiful salad and such interesting flavors with the onion !
thank you so much!
This salad sounds very healthy and delicious!
its exactly that! You’re going to love it!