Strawberry Orange Salad with Spinach and Arugula (2024)

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Strawberry Orange Salad with Spinach, Arugula, Toasted Sliced Almonds, and Feta Cheese takes only 15 minutes to assemble - perfect for a busy weeknight. Your friends and family will love vibrant, healthy, fresh ingredients tossed in a light homemade Lemon Honey Mustard Dressing. Bring this stunning, crowd-pleasing salad to game day parties, picnics, potlucks, and cookouts! It's healthy, gluten-free, high-fiber, meatless, and vegetarian.

Why you'll love it

• Healthy everyday salad. Fresh strawberries and oranges are combined with baby spinach and arugula mix, toasted almonds, feta cheese, and homemade Lemon Honey Mustard dressing. The salad comes together in less than 15 minutes! It's simple enough to serve as an everyday salad, lunch, or light weeknight dinner.
• The fancy choice for special occasions. Red strawberries and yellow oranges in a green salad make a stunning presentation with little effort.
• Perfect for making ahead. You can prep all the salad ingredients up to 1 day in advance, keeping the salad ingredients and dressing separate and refrigerated until ready to mix!
• For more strawberry salad inspiration, check out strawberry mango salad and spinach salad with strawberries, blueberries, mango, avocado, cashews, and balsamic dressing.

Salad ingredients

• Spinach is a leafy green vegetable high in fiber and is an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium.
• Arugula has a peppery flavor that complements the sweetness of strawberries and oranges. It's rich in Vitamins A, C, and K, and is a great source of calcium, potassium, and folate.
• Strawberries are rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, such as Vitamin C, Manganese, Folate, and Potassium. They are a good source of fiber. Not only are these berries delicious and rich in nutrients, but they are also beautiful and add color and brightness to any salad!
• Oranges are rich in fiber, antioxidants, and Vitamin C.
• Feta cheese adds tangy flavor and creaminess.
• Almonds. I used thinly sliced almonds and toasted them briefly (about 5 minutes in the preheated oven at 350 F). The almonds should turn a rich golden color.

How to make salad dressing

You need only four ingredients: honey, Dijon mustard, olive oil, and lemon juice. (The recipe card at the bottom of this recipe post provides the full recipe and measurements.) I recommend using freshly squeezed lemon juice (not bottled) and extra virgin olive oil. Combine all dressing ingredients in a mason jar and whisk with a fork to emulsify.

How to make strawberry orange spinach salad

Scroll down to the recipe card for the total measurements and the complete recipe, but here are the basic steps:

1. Combine spinach, arugula, sliced strawberries, sliced oranges, and crumbled feta cheese in a large bowl. Toss to combine.
2. Make homemade dressing by combining honey, Dijon mustard, olive oil, and lemon juice in a mason jar and stirring with the fork until emulsified.
3. Add salad dressing to the large bowl with the salad and toss to combine.
4. Divide the salad among the individual serving bowls.
5. Top each serving bowl with toasted sliced almonds.

Substitutions, variations, and add-ins

• Use your favorite greens or a mix: arugula, spinach, mixed greens, lettuce, butter lettuce, etc.
• You can use other nuts. I recommend toasted pecans, walnuts, or pine nuts. This salad is delicious with toasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas) or sunflower seeds.
• Mix the berries! You can use blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries in addition to or instead of strawberries.
• Cheese. I recommend feta or goat cheese to keep the creamy factor of this salad.
• Add protein. Add cooked, grilled, or rotisserie chicken or shrimp to the strawberry orange spinach salad to make it a complete meal!

Storage Tips

• It's best to serve the strawberry orange salad immediately, so I recommend making just enough so you have no leftovers.
• If you have leftovers, the salad can be refrigerated for 2 days. It's best to refrigerate the salad and the dressing separately.

Other strawberry salads you might like

• Strawberry Spinach Salad with Pecans and Balsamic Dressing
• Strawberry and Mango Salad with Spinach, Arugula, and Feta Cheese
• Bacon and Strawberry Spinach Salad with Toasted Almonds
• Spinach Salad with Strawberries, Quinoa, and Honey-Mustard Balsamic Dressing
• Spinach Strawberry Salad with Mango, Blueberries, Avocado, Cashews, and Balsamic Dressing