Serious Salads: Wild Rice Salad with Cranberries and Pecans

Serious Salads

When you want your vegetables to be more than just a side dish.

Jennifer Segal

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This hearty autumn salad combines nutty wild rice, dried cranberries and toasted pecans in a slightly sweet orange-scented vinaigrette. Serve as a light vegetarian meal or side dish to roast chicken, turkey, or pork.

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Jennifer Segal

Jennifer Segal is the chef and photographer behind Once Upon a Chef, a family-friendly food blog featuring easy and elegant recipes with step-by-step photos. Once upon a time, she went to culinary school, cooked in a fancy French restaurant and was a personal chef. Nowadays, she devotes her time to her family, her blog, writing for HuffingtonPost Kitchen Daily and a regular salads column on Serious Eats. Her recipes have also appeared on Saveur.com, Yummly.com, thenest.com and Metrocurean.com. Jennifer passionately believes that cooking at home should be relaxing and fun. Her recipes are simple, even when they’re gourmet. She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband, two kids and crazy dog, Miles.

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