This festive Christmas salad is the perfect side dish to serve with your holiday meal! Loaded with arugula, nutty wild rice, roasted pecans, juicy pomegranate arils, greens onions, tart dried cherries, and tangy garlic dijon dressing; this hearty salad is a major crowd pleaser! Vegan and gluten-free.
This is my all-time favorite salad! I love the combination of flavors and textures, it’s so incredibly delicious and it’s such a good Christmas salad! The festive red pomegranate arils and green arugula ingredients make this the perfect vegan holiday side dish!
The first time that I made this simple salad was for our Christmas dinner a few years ago and my family (especially my mom) fell in love with it!
Now, my family loves this wild rice pomegranate Christmas salad recipe and they request it at every holiday, so I usually end up making it for almost every single family get-together or holiday gathering.
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The combination of peppery arugula, tart dried cherries, nutty wild rice, sweet pomegranate arils, and roasted pecans tossed in a tangy garlic dijon dressing is so tasty! This vegan wild rice salad is definitely a crowd-pleaser and I think that you’re going to love it as much as we do!
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