Red Onion Orange Salad

Pickled Red onion, Oranges salad with Feta cheese, Mint, and cilantro. Date night food it is not. But let’s be honest. We’ve all been on dates we would have gladly traded for a salad. This would be that salad.

Red Onion Orange Salad

This easy red onion orange salad combines sweet oranges, quick pickled red onions, crumbled feta, mint, and cilantro for a fresh no-cook salad that is light, vibrant, and packed with bold flavor.

5 from 3 votes

Course: Appetizers, Salads

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Orange Salad, Red Onion Orange Salad, Red Onion Salad

Prep Time: 10

Total Time: 10

Servings:

Calories: 97kcal

Ingredients

Quick Pickled Onions

1 cup Red Onion. chopped thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
1/4 teaspoon Truvia or 1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons White Vinegar
1 tablespoon Cilantro chopped
1 teaspoon mint leaves chopped

Salted oranges

1 cup Orange chopped
1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt

For Topping

1/4 cup feta cheese crumbled

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Instructions

Mix all the ingredients for the pickled onions together. Let them rest while you get everything else ready.
Peel and chop sweet oranges. Mix with salt.
Roughly crumble some feta cheese.
If you really want a dressing, start making this dressing that you used for the Avocado Grapefruit salad--because SURELY you've made that delicious salad already! But you don't really need a dressing.
When ready to plate, arrange oranges in the middle. Surround with pickled onions. Pour the vinegar from the onions across everything.
Place crumbled feta cheese on top.
Serve!

Notes

Some variations on this salad:

Kinds of vinegar: Apple cider, white vinegar, rice vinegar
Oranges: blood oranges, starfruit, pomelo, grapefruit, tart Granny Smith apples
Cheese: blue cheese, stilton, gorgonzola, queso fresco
Additions: Nuts, baby spinach leaves

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