Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad

This Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad is perfect when you need a simple salad fast. It’s a delicious winter salad with bright pomegranate seeds and crunchy pistachios.

This Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad is always a hit over the holidays at my house – and at any point in the winter really.

An easy butter lettuce salad is perfect for a side at dinner or paired with some tuna and gluten-free crackers if you’re working from home like me🙋‍♀️

Salads can be a fantastic way to get some vitamins, antioxidants and fibre into you – and they can help you stick with your gluten-free diet easily enough.

Just don’t only have salad – pair it with protein and/or some healthy carbs.

You don’t wanna be hungry 5 minutes after eating. The. Worst🤦‍♀️

Here’s what you’ll need to make this simple salad with pomegranate seeds:

• Butter lettuce – I love this “living lettuce” and it has 2 different varieties: 1 red butter and 1 Boston green
• Cucumber
• Pomegranate seeds – fresh or frozen (thawed) work
• Pistachios – shelled
• Apple cider vinegar
• Olive oil
• Garlic clove

How do you get the pomegranate seeds out of the pomegranate?

Ok, I’ve heard some interesting ways to do this but lemme tell you my friend the best and easiest way to get the seeds outta there?

1. Cut the pomegranate in half.
2. Turn it upside down in your palm (so the cut-side is in the palm of your hand.)
3. Whack the back of it with a wooden spoon.

The seeds just come out! If I’m really in a pinch, I’ll just do it right over the dish I’m serving (no one ever minds a little pom juice splatter really) or you can do it over a large bowl to catch the pomegranate seeds and the pretty juice splatter.

I hope you love this delicious and simple winter salad as much as we do.

~April

Here’s a some more easy and and gluten-free recipes:

Healthy Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup (no beans)

Easy Weeknight Hamburger Soup with Sweet Potatoes

Gluten Free Slow Cooker Chili

Creamy Slow Cooker Chicken with Chickpeas

Simple Haddock Quesadillas

Easy Winter Soup with Beans

Simple Coleslaw Recipe (no mayo)

Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad

April

A delicious winter salad with bright pomegranate seeds and crunchy pistachios.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Total Time 10 mins

Course Salad

Cuisine American

Servings 4 adults

Ingredients

  

• 1 large head of butter lettuce or 2 small (about 8 cups)
• ½ cucumber sliced
• 1 pomegranate seeded or 1/3 cup seeds
• ¼ cup shelled pistachios chopped

Dressing

• 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, minced

Instructions

 

• Whisk salad dressing ingredients together.
  
• Hand tear the butter lettuce into a salad bowl.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and toss with the salad dressing. Serve.
  

Notes

I won't douse the salad in the dressing and often have some leftover. You can use the salad dressing again if you keep what you don't use in the fridge in a container with the with the lid on (I'll use a small mason jar.) It'll be fine for about a week to use on other salads.

Keyword butter lettuce salad recipe, easy salad