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15 Asian Pear Salad Recipes: A New Type Of Crispness To Your Salads

15 Asian Pear Salad Recipes: A New Type Of Crispness To Your Salads

These 15 Asian pear salad recipes can transform your regular salads into so much more.

With their crisp texture and sweet and slightly tart taste, we think you’ll love Asian pears, also known as apple pears if you’ve never tried them before. 

Using Asian pears rather than traditional western pears helps add a firm texture to your salad: a bit like a crisp apple.

You get extra juiciness in every bite from the high water content and so much sweetness!

These Asian pear salads have a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables and come in so many different styles.

Crunchy nuts made a great addition to these salads like the Asian Pear and Walnut Salad.

Chicken Salad with Grapes always tastes better with extra fruit tossed in, and of course, adding Asian pears never hurts!

Using the right cheese with your salads can ensure a tasty and fresh salad like in the Goat Cheese, Asian Pear, and Beet Salad or the Blue Cheese and Grilled Asian Pear Salad.

Even if you tend to shy away from traditional leafy salads, at least one of these will win you over with the addition of the special qualities of Asian pears!

The idea of adding fruit into a salad full of greens may sound unusual if you are not familiar with it, but these 15 salad recipes will have you adding fruit to all of your salads moving forward!

This gluten-free salad features cooked soba noodles and hot salmon along with fresh spring onions and raw Asian pears.

The soba noodles make this salad great for transporting if you need to eat on the go or want to pack this for lunch.

If you don’t have all of these ingredients on hand or can’t find them, don’t worry, there are a few substitutions listed out so you can still enjoy this salad with other ingredients.

Topping a piece of lettuce with a fresh Fruit Salad gives you a personal fruity lettuce wrap!

A little bit of shrimp tossed in adds some seafood flavor to mix in with the fruity mixture.

It is best to wait until right before serving to add the creamy dressing so it doesn’t get too watery while waiting.

This pear salad recipe is full of many different flavors and textures making it an amazing sensory experience.

Following this recipe is an effortless process and it can be easily adjusted to give you exactly what you are looking for in a salad.

With the Gorgonzola cheese, dijon mustard, and arugula in this salad, you get a nice balance of elegant and luxurious flavors melding together.

This Chicken Salad can be used in so many different ways, whether in a sandwich, a lettuce cup, or scooped up with crackers.

Throwing in sweet fruits like grapes and Asian pears elevates the flavors.

This is an amazing way to use up any leftovers, make a quick dish, and enjoy a nice balance of sweet and savory flavors in one.

However you may feel about fruit in salad, this Asian salad with pear will win your heart!

This is a unique take on sweet and salty combined in one, but with the added umami flavor from the white miso used in the miso sesame vinaigrette.

Although Asian pears are already a great addition to the roasted shiitake in this salad, topping it off with the miso sesame vinaigrette definitely makes it even better!

Between the crunchy snow peas and the crisp pears, you are getting a treat with the texture of this Asian pear salad.

The dressing plays on cilantro and ginger flavors with a tiny dash of sweetness from the honey.

Since snow peas are in peak season in the spring and early summer, this gives you a nice fresh salad perfect for enjoying during the warmer weather.

This colorful salad is a bountiful collection of fresh vegetables and fruit.

You get a balanced dish to enjoy that requires no cooking.

The orange ginger dressing used in this recipe is what helps all of the natural flavors of the fruits and vegetables shine and is very simple to whisk together!

If you already have a salad recipe you love but want to elevate it a little bit further, try switching out your classic dressings for this fresh vinaigrette.

This pear salad dressing is simply blended together and drizzled onto your salad!

A good choice of oil for this dressing is either coconut or walnut oil but try to stay away from olive oil since the olive flavors will not mix well with the pear and honey.

This dressing will also do a great job at accentuating the Asian pears in the other recipes on this list so it would be great to pour on top of your other Asian pear salad recipes.

When all of the ingredients you put into your salad are already tasty, there is little you have to do to tie them together.

This salad proves just that with its four ingredients merging together to give you a foolproof recipe for a salad with a light and refreshing dressing drizzled on top.

Depending on how much dressing you like on your salad, you may have some leftovers for the coming days, which gives you an excuse to enjoy this salad again and again.

This Asian Pear And Walnut Salad are about to become your go-to for starting off your fall meals.

Your greens make a great bed for your thinly sliced Asian pear and pomegranate seeds to sit on.

You get some delightful crunch from the toasted walnuts and all of it is dressed in a tangy maple-mustard vinaigrette.

As the weather cools, we may find ourselves filling our stomachs up with hearty comfort dishes but this salad is a light way to enjoy fresh ingredients alongside your substantial meals.

Let your kale soak in the flavorful dressing for a few minutes before you add in your remaining ingredients so every bite packs a burst of freshness.

Top your kale with your fruit, walnuts, and crumbled feta cheese and you get to enjoy the best flavors of fall in your quickly prepared salad.

This green Asian pear salad will convince you that you can enjoy a salad as your entire meal, not just as an appetizer or side dish.

There is no cooking involved and just a little bit of chopping so you can have a refreshing meal waiting for you in little time.

The beets have a bit of sweetness that comes out with the juicy pear and the nutty pecans which are all complimented by the soft goat cheese.

The tangy honey mustard vinaigrette ties all of this together without overwhelming your tastebuds for a guilt-free indulgent dish!

Grilling your Asian pears will add a bit of smokiness to match the sweetness.

Since Asian pears are firm, they maintain a great texture for grilling.

Despite the strong scent of blue cheese, the flavors accompany the grilled pears so well and add a nice texture from the crumbles.

The dressing can be blended together in no time, and only uses four ingredients so it will not overpower the grilled Asian pears, blue cheese crumbles, or chopped walnuts.

Beer and salad may sound like an unusual combination but the honey pale ale dressing used in this recipe brings a unique flavor-forward that will have you convinced beer and salad are a match made in heaven!

Any pale ale or IPA with low bitterness would make a great addition to the dressing but the author used “Crazy Mountain Livin’ Pale Ale”.

The goat cheese fritters add a delicious fried addition to top your salad and taste amazing when paired with the honey pale ale and the Asian pear.

The bottom line

Asian pears absolutely deserve to be added to your fresh salads!

Whether as a fresh ingredient, a grilled topping, or as a part of the dressing, the sweet and juicy flavors add so much to your salads.

These 15 Asian pear salad recipes will help you add a new type of crispness to your salads while giving you a few new fresh recipes to add to your lineup!

15 BEST Asian Pear Salad Recipe

15 BEST Asian Pear Salad Recipe

These 15 Asian Pear Salad Recipes add a new type of crispness to your salads!

Ingredients

  • Kale And Asian Pear Salad
  • Asian Pear Salad with Soba And Hot Smoked Salmon
  • Fruit Salad
  • Asian Pear And Arugula Salad With Gorgonzola Cheese
  • Chicken Salad With Grapes And Asian Pears
  • Roasted Shiitake And Asian Pear Salad
  • Asian Pear & Snow Pea Salad
  • Asian Pear Salad With Orange Ginger Dressing
  • Fresh Asian Pear Vinaigrette
  • Mango Asian Pear Salad
  • Asian Pear And Walnut Salad
  • Kale Salad With Asian Pear, Pomegranate, And Date
  • Goat Cheese, Asian Pear, & Beet Salad
  • Blue Cheese And Grilled Asian Pear Salad
  • Asian Pear Salad With Honey Pale Ale Dressing And Goat Cheese Fritters

Instructions

  1. Take a look at our Asian Pear Salad Recipes list!
  2. Bring the ingredients to create a new favorite dish.
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