Squash & Pistachio Sweet Kale Fall Salad
You couldn’t ask for a vegetarian salad with more nutrients! Our Sweet Kale Chopped Salad Kit is loaded with vitamin-rich broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kale, the Vitamin K of radicchio, the omega-3 fatty acids of pumpkin seeds, and the antioxidants of cranberries. When you add the healthy, monounsaturated fats of avocado, the Vitamin-C of butternut squash, and the proteins in pistachios—well, this salad’s just got it all.
- Active Time:
- 20 minutes
- Total TIME:
- 40 minutes
- SERVINGS:
- 4
Ingredients
- 1 Taylor Farms Sweet Kale Chopped Salad Kit
- 3 cups butternut squash, peeled and cut into ¾-inch cubes (about 1 lb)
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- ½ tsp smoked paprika (optional, for warmth)
- 1 large ripe avocado, diced
- ¼ cup shelled roasted pistachios, roughly
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Toss cubed butternut squash with olive oil, salt, pepper, and smoked paprika. Spread in a single layer on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Roast for 25–30 minutes, flipping halfway, until golden and fork-tender.
- Empty the Sweet Kale Salad Kit greens into a large bowl. Add the included toppings and toss lightly. Drizzle the kit’s poppyseed dressing over the greens and toss to coat evenly.
- Gently fold in the warm roasted squash, diced avocado, and pistachios.
- Transfer to a platter or individual bowls. Finish with an optional squeeze of lemon.
Squash That Salad
If by squash, you mean crush, AKA eat the whole thing quickly and lick the plate—yeah, we agree. Or if by squash you also mean just add squash, we also agree!
For added nutrition and a healthy starch that helps keep you full, squash is a wonderful addition to salads. Something about squash is particularly autumnal, and this warm ingredient also works its way into holiday recipes. Try adding delicata squash and festive persimmons to a Kale Harvest Salad, for instance. Or the Maple Bourbon Winter Veggies Salad, or the Roasted Hasselback Butternut Squash Maple Salad.
We’ve also used squash as a bowl! Such as in the Maple Bourbon Bacon Squash Salad, in which butternut squash holds the salad (and more delicata squash).
If you had any qualms about adding squash to your salads—squash them!
