Classic Waldorf Salad
By @chef1
A refreshing and classic salad with apples, celery, grapes, and walnuts in a creamy mayonnaise dressing.
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Ingredients
- ●2 medium apples
- ●1 cup celery
- ●1 cup red grapes
- ●1/2 cup walnuts
- ●1/2 cup mayonnaise
- ●2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ●to taste salt
- ●to taste pepper
- ●as needed lettuce leaves
Instructions
- 1In a large bowl, combine the diced apples, celery, grapes, and walnuts.
- 2In a small bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise and lemon juice.
- 3Pour the dressing over the apple mixture and toss gently to combine.
- 4Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- 5Serve on lettuce leaves if desired.
Recipe details
- Cuisine
- American
- Category
- Salad
- Preparation
- 15 minutes
- Cooking
- 0 minutes
Estimated total: 42 minutes. Planning estimate: stated duration ranges use their midpoint; standard preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Resting/chilling is included in total time.
How these estimates were calculated
- Prep main salad ingredients: 10 min planning allowance (vegetable_prep)
- Prep dressing ingredients and lettuce: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Transfer main ingredients to large bowl: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Combine main ingredients: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Transfer dressing ingredients to small bowl: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Whisk dressing: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Pour dressing over salad: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Toss salad with dressing: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Season salad with salt and pepper: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Mix seasoning into salad: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Assemble salad on lettuce leaves: 5 min planning allowance (assemble)
- Serve salad: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Dice apples, celery, grapes; chop walnuts
- Measure mayonnaise, lemon juice; prepare salt, pepper, lettuce
- apples: USDA medium (3" dia) portion weight
- Generic raw apples with skin selected for unspecified apple variety.
- celery: USDA cup chopped portion weight
- red grapes: USDA cup portion weight
- Generic red or green grapes selected for red grapes.
- walnuts: USDA cup, chopped portion weight
- English walnuts, chopped, selected for unspecified walnuts.
- mayonnaise: USDA cup portion weight
- Regular mayonnaise selected for unspecified mayonnaise.
- lemon juice: USDA cup portion weight
- Using cup portion for tablespoons, calculator converts units.
- Unweighed salt: only documented zero nutrients included
- pepper: USDA tsp, ground portion weight
- pepper: Seasoning allowance: 1/4 tsp per 4 servings
- Pepper to taste, using black pepper. Standard allowance applied by the calculator.
- Excludes optional lettuce leaves
- apples: 364 g · USDA reference 171688
- celery: 101 g · USDA reference 169988
- red grapes: 151 g · USDA reference 174683
- walnuts: 58.5 g · USDA reference 170187
- mayonnaise: 110 g · USDA reference 171009
- lemon juice: 30.5 g · USDA reference 167747
- salt: documented zero nutrients only · USDA reference 173468
- pepper: 0.57 g · USDA reference 170931
- lettuce leaves: optional ingredient excluded
apples · celery · grapes · walnuts
Estimated nutrition per serving
362 calories · 3.2 g protein · 22.9 g carbohydrate · 30.4 g fat · 4 g fiber
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Documented USDA or manufacturer portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Excludes optional lettuce leaves Nutrients with incomplete inputs omitted. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
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