This is an excellent brunch salad that's very easy to throw together. This tastes great without a dressing, but some people like a bacon dressing or a nice balsamic vinegar.
I prepared this salad for a formal dinner serving 65 guests. I served it with a homemade balsamic vinagarette infused with cracked black pepper. The salad was beautiful & everyone enjoyed it. Will definetely serve it agian.
Read MoreI made this salad for a dinner party. It was not as unique tasting as I had hoped. However, it was definitely a very pretty looking salad. I would probably not make this again.
Read More I prepared this salad for a formal dinner serving 65 guests. I served it with a homemade balsamic vinagarette infused with cracked black pepper. The salad was beautiful & everyone enjoyed it. Will definetely serve it agian.
This salad was a huge hit at our family barbeque. The blackberries were hard to toss so next time I will add them last.
This was an interesting dish and something nice to serve. My husband liked it very much. Used balsamic vinegar.
We enjoyed this. As an experiment we also tried red raspberries, strawberries and also good. One note; add rest of salad things and toss and add berries last so they won't crumble. Thanks for sharing.
Very unique salad - nice combination of flavors and colors. Used almonds instead of walnuts and served with a balsamic dressing. Next time I will probably mix some romaine lettuce with the spinach, but I will definitely be making this again!
Awesome recipe - and so quick to make! I made a huge batch of it and ate it every day for lunch for nearly two weeks. Everyone that tried it at work went home and made it for dinner. I skipped the tomatoes and used the no dressing version. Loved it!!
I served this for Halloween and everyone loved it. People kept on coming back for seconds!! I served it with Balsamic vinegar and olive oil, and a lot of green onions.
This recipe was not only easy to prepare, it's presentation is beautiful. Kay
Outstanding. The table full of junior-high girls "eeewww"'d at the written recipe but delighted in the tastes and appearance of the finished product. The table full of their parents was equally thrilled. Any recipe that can accomplish THAT is a winner and goes into our Keepers file!
Easy to make and beautiful presentation. As other reviewers recommended, I added the blackberries last and tossed in some balsamic vinegar. Delicious.
Mmm, yummy recipe. I added canned mandarin oranges, sliced almonds, crunchy sesame seeds,and omitted the feta cheese. For a dressing, I used raspberry vinagrette. Make sure you prepare this right before serving, as it will get soggy (due to the dressing, juices from the fruits).
This salad is a simple blend of various flavours that packs a total punch. I used raspberries since I couldn't find blackberries, and they were just the right amount of tart to substitute. I used balsamic vinegrette with a touch of honey.
Tasty and healthy. I was surprised that it was so good without any dressing. I didn't think it needed any. I left out the nuts (daughter is allergic) and flowers. I'm not much of a salad person but I did like this one a lot.
dinner guests loved it, and it made a pretty presentation.
Mmm... crunchy and sweet and tangy. This salad went over well with three different sets of dinner guests!
I made this salad for a dinner party. It was not as unique tasting as I had hoped. However, it was definitely a very pretty looking salad. I would probably not make this again.
This salad is delicious! I served it with a balsamic vinegrette and it was a hit. Very fresh, heathy and tasty. I love the blend of flavors and textures.
My absolute favourite salad... delish and hugely popular. A little tricky to toss without losing all the heavy stuff to the bottom.
I made this for a pot luck at work. Everyone wanted the recipie. It is still being talked about. It is GREAT and so easy!!!
Delicious! No dressing was mentioned, but I did my standard.....a bit of garlic salt, a bit of olive oil and a dash of balsamic vinegar.
I served this for a luncheon shower, and the presentation was beautiful. The salad got good reviews from most present, but I thought the flavor was a bit too sour.
great salad for summer!
Very tasty! I loved everything about it. I could only get frozen mixed berries since blackberries aren't exactly in season here in January. I'm sure fresh ones would have been much better. It was fine dry but a balsamic vinegar would have been an excellent balance for the alkaline in the spinach.
This is very good - lots of interesting flavors coming together. I thought it might taste strange, but they amazingly enough all end up going very well together.
I'm rating this as I took the essence of the recipe & changed it a bit. I substituted blueberries for the blackberries & blue cheese for the feta. I tried it with Italian dressing one day & balsamic dressing another time. I liked it the best with slivered cooked chicken & blue cheese dressing.
All the flavors worked very well together in this! I really wanted to use the edible flowers but my store didn't have them. OBVIOUSLY this recipe is JUST a salad recipe so you will need to come up with a dressing. I just used some oil and red wine vinegar. Balsamic and oil would be good too! Yum!
wonderful flavors and colors
This was really good! I modified a bit to make it for a holiday meal: dried cranberries instead of blackberries, and I left out the tomatoes. It was a hit!
There was too much cheese for me, it made it too salty. I would cut it down next time. Also it needed some sort of dressing. I just added a bit of balsamic vinegar.
Very good salad. I forgot the nuts, used raspberries and added a little fresh mint. I topped it with a balsamic vinaigarette. Delicious and healthy.
I catered a friend's bridal shower and make this salad. I used a combination of baby spinach and romaine lettuce. I used pecans instead of walnuts, but that was a personal preference. And I did not use the edible flowers. I mixed everything together with an Italian vinagrette, and it was very good and very popular at the shower.
Very refreshing salad. Just loved it. I did not have spinach, substituted lettuce and avocado for cheese. Instead of these changes, great recipe. Used Balsamic vinegar.Thank you.
Well, I'll be the dissenting voice. This salad wasn't bad, but it wasn't special, either. I had it without the dressing.
Excellent! I didn't use tomatoes, but added raspberries, romaine lettuce, and balsamic vinagrette. It was a crowd pleaser!
I absolutely loved this recipe. I used regular green leaf lettuce, partially defrosted frozen blackberries and instead of feta used swiss. It was still really delicious and makes a nice alteration for salad. I will definately be making this again.
This is outstanding. I made it for the ladies of my book club who all like fresh fruit and their salads with dressing on the side. I'm more of the raw veggie salad with a pile of creamy dressing on top kind of person. Everyone loved this and I am its biggest fan. I used fresh from the garden cherry tomatoes, more green onion and toasted the walnuts. Didn't use edible flowers. I made a spicy balsamic dressing and sweetened it with about a tablespoon of honey then lightly drizzled it over everything. It definitely is a keeper.
I used some of my blackberries from my bush. The salad was pretty good especially paired with the sweet cherry tomatoes. I didn't especially like it without a dressing though. It wasn't bad, but it does need something else.
We're both adventurous eaters, but I'm sorry to say we didn't like this. It's just uninteresting--I wouldn't say it's bland, but there's no complexity or depth to the flavor. The only way I can describe it is it's all "high notes"; it needs something savory. I think it might be better with goat cheese, but I don't plan to make this again. Thanks, anyway.
I had some leftover blackberries to use up, so I decided to make this recipe. I didn’t have spinach so I used green leaf lettuce. I eyeballed the ingredients rather than measuring and increased the onions, using two green onions for two salads. I toasted my walnuts in a skillet with a little butter to enhance their flavor and I didn't use the optional edible flowers. For the dressing I used Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette also from this site. This salad was quite good and I would make it again. I’m not sure the tomatoes worked that well in this, although they did contribute additional color. Next time I will use strawberries instead. Other than that I wouldn’t change a thing! Nice recipe!
Great salad--I doubled it for a crowd and made a balsamic vinaigrette--great crowd pleaser and awesome presentation!
I absolutely love this salad. I've found that as long as you keep the feta, spinach, walnuts, and tomatoes you can add pretty much whatever you want (chicken, blackberries, and so on). I make a balsamic vinaigrette to go on mine. My only complaint is that everything tends to sink under the spinahc, so when you are adding the psinach make sure to kinda press it down a little bit.
This was a wonderful salad for summer. I made it for my family and even the kids loved it. I will definately make this again. I also did what others suggested and added the blackberries last.
Everyone at my dinner party loved this salad. I used feta cheese with tomatoes and a sweet balsalmic vinagraitte. Delicious! I didn't have edible flowers, but I wouldn't leave anything else out, all the ingredients compliment each other nicely.
I loved this salad. I don't like salads that are really sweet, and this one wasn't, yet it was still refresing. I left out the edible flowers, but everthing else was according to the recipe. I dressed it with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, but I think I'll use a balsamic vinegarette dressing next time because for me, it's hard to control the amount when I use straight vinegar and I sometimes get too much. My only complaint was the seeds from the blackberries. At first I thought there must have been some shells in with the walnuts, but then I pinpointed it to the blackberries. So next time I think I'll do as another reviewer suggested and use blueberries.
Colorful salad and the flavors all went well together too. I didn't use edible flowers. I served this with a walnut vinagrette dressing. It was delicious. Thanks for a wonderful salad. I'm having this again tomorrow.
Delicious and healthy! Used blueberries instead of blackberries and cottage cheese instead of feta. The raspberry vinaigrette complemented it nicely.
I got rave reviews over this, for dressing I tossed it in just a little raspberry vinegrette. Everyone loved it.
I love blackberries, so I loved this recipe. It was fun to eat edible flowers too, although they didn't really add much flavor.
Served this recently at a brunch, minus the green onions, and no one could get enough. This from a crowd that isn't big on fruit. Thank you!!
Great salad, although a shame it did not have a home made dressing to go with it. I omitted the green onion (didn't have any) and used sliced almonds in place of the walnuts. Thank you for sharing.
Yummy!!! I will absolutely make this again, and plan to serve it to company.
A simple, different yet tasty salad. I used just a little white balsamic/olive oil dressing, and may try a raspberry balsamic dressing next time.
This is a quick wonderful salad, with many different flavors. I used olive oil and balsamic to dress it and I loved it.
Excellent ! Made it for my wife's healthy heart luncheon. It was a homerun ! Ate without a dressing. Great ! Going to try it with a bacon dressing next time.
Great salad. I added romaine lettuce and fresh beets. The family loved it.
I am NOT (underlined) a cook in anyone's eyes (I consider myself a "minimal food preparer"). So when my family gave me a standing ovation at the dinner table for this salad, I was thrilled! Thank you ALL RECIPES!
So goood. I used almonds instead of walnuts, garlic and herb feta (didnt have plain) and frozen blackberries and rasberries instead of fresh. I let the berries melt and then added to salad also with their juice. Next time I want to try to blend some berries to the juice to make it thicker.
This was a very delicious salad that my husband & I enjoyed. I didn't have the edible flowers, but it didn't need them. You can use about any dressing you want with this salad. I liked raspberry viniagrette with it, but my husband liked blue cheese.
This is a wonderful summer salad. I can't wait to try different berries and cheese. Maybe blueberries and goat cheese. yum
Pefect! My guest were at the door so I had to scratch the green onion and I know some people don't like walnuts so I left them out! Two of the guest were a middle schooler and high schooler and their mom from England and they loved it! For dressing I just did extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Thanks for the recipe! It's a keeper!
This was very good. Fresh on a hot summer day! In the salad that I made I used half raspberries and half blackberries. I also used pecans instead of walnuts. I served it with raspberry vinaigrette. The entire party loved it.
This salad is amazing! I add pomegranate and used a red onion cut thinly instead of green because I didn't have any on hand. Didn't need dressing and was the first dish that people came back for seconds of!
Oh love this recipe full of bright colors. Topped with a Berry Vinaigrette. Will be making again.
OMG! This is worth 8 stars, though I opted to use dried cranberries instead of cherry tomatoes and goat cheese instead of feta. Since I doubled the recipe, I used 3 green onions, some romaine with mostly spinach, and 1 1/2 pints of blackberries. I served it with a peach balsamic vinegar that I had and mmmmm.....SO good and beautiful too!
Absolutely Delish! I substituted pecans for walnuts simply because it was something that I had on hand, didn't have edible flowers (bummer) but thought this was simply fantastic. I love salads, essentially live on them and this is a perfect addition. Thank you for sharing.
Loved the blackberries. Added some olive as I felt it needed it think I will put a squeeze of lemon in next time as I feel it would compliment the cheese. I swapped the nuts for walnuts which was really great.
I really loved this salad! I had to rush out to buy more blackberries before the season ended. I used raspberry/walnut vinegrette for dressing.
Delicious! I took this to cards last night, and it went over well. Used pecans instead of walnuts, red onions instead of scallion, and used a balsamic vinaigrette, and the flavor combination was spot on!
Who would have thought that these ingredients are absolutely delicious together? The only thing I didn't have was the edible flowers, which would look really pretty if you were serving it at a luncheon. It's great all by itself and also wonderful with balsamic vinaigrette. Thanks for a new and exciting salad to add to my recipe box!
I think this is good, unique salad and I've made it a few times to bring to get-togethers. I use a candied nut (like sugary pecans, any that look good when I'm at the store) instead of the plain walnuts.
this was pretty decent but i enjoyed the Strawberry Blue Cheese Salad on this site a whole lot more so i'll stick to that as my go-to fruit salad.. ty anyway
This is a really good salad. I have a local store that sells a kinds of really good olive oils and vinegar and olive oils from all over the world. I used their blackberry and ginger vinegar and just some olive oil as the dressing and it was amazing. It also kept well for dinner the next day. I would make this again the same way.
This was quite good. I added leftover pan-seared salmon to mine to make it a meal. I just added some fresh lemon juice and olive oil to it. A great way to eat my fresh fruits and veggies from the farmers market. I'll make this again for sure!
I made this for a dinner party and it ended up being the highlight of the meal. It’s a light and refreshing salad to serve with a heavier meal. Perfect combo of sweet, tart, and crunch. We served it with a raspberry walnut vinegrette.
I could eat this salad everyday! I don't eat it with any dressing. It's the perfect salad.
I skipped the edible flowers and the green onion. Served with a balsamic berry salad dressing.
