Carrot Apple Salad is a delicious and colourful salad loaded with sliced red and green apples, carrots, dried cranberries and mandarins all tossed in a vanilla yogurt and mayo dressing.
Carrot Apple Salad is a refreshing side dish perfect for summer.
This flavourful sweet and savory salad is great for serving at barbecues and pot lucks.
This carrot salad recipe takes about twenty minutes to prepare and then requires at least three hours in the refrigerator to chill.
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To make this salad, I started by cutting one Granny Smith apple and one red delicious apple into matchsticks.
I placed the sliced apple pieces into a large mixing bowl.
I poured some lemon juice over the apples.
I tossed the apples until they were all coated in the lemon juice and then set the bowl aside to let the apple pieces soak in the lemon juice for 5 minutes.
The lemon juice will stop the apples from browning.
I poured some store bought matchstick cut carrots into a large bowl.
I added some finely diced onion to the bowl.
I also added some dried sweetened cranberries to the bowl.
I added the apples to the bowl.
Then I added some vanilla yogurt and mayo to the bowl.
I also added some sugar, salt and pepper to the bowl.
I stirred until all of the ingredients were well combined.
Then I added some mandarin segments to the bowl.
I stirred the mandarins into the salad.
Then I covered the bowl and placed it in the refrigerator to chill for three hours.
After three hours I removed the bowl from the fridge and gave the salad one last stir.
I transferred the salad to a serving bowl.
This carrot apple salad is a great side dish for a variety of meals.
It could be served with seafood, a nice pork tenderloin or even just with hamburgers and hot dogs.
