Sam & Harry's steak salad with fennel, blue cheese & apple-walnut vinaigrette from Once Upon a Chef: The Cookbook: 100 Tested, Perfected, and Family-Approved Recipes (page 103) by Jennifer Segal

Ingredients

apple cider vinegar
shallots
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Notes about this recipe

cnorton on April 12, 2026

BIG salad lover, and this is my absolute favorite fall salad! The dressing is soooo good: toasted walnuts, apples, apple cider vinegar, honey, etc.. Well-balanced and satisfying! YUM!
Running_with_Wools on November 04, 2024

This was fresh, crunchy, and flavorful. Salty cheese, fresh vegetables , and the sweet dressing. It really was balanced and unusual. A great combination. I loved it. I could eat the dressing with a spoon.
anya_sf on November 01, 2024

Super good and 2 of us finished most of it for dinner. We only needed half the dressing, but it's so good I'm sure it will get used.
averythingcooks on March 03, 2024

I made my usual steak salad with romaine, red onion, radish, red pepper + thinly sliced steak & chunks of blue cheese (ie no fennel) but the real star was this apple walnut dressing. I used a Granny Smith apple and got it as smooth as I could in my small (smoothie) blender and wow - this stuff is truly delicious.
julesamomof2 on August 11, 2022

Super delicious and easy salad, and although I did have to break out my blender to make the dressing, it was worth it. I threw the rest of chopped apple into the salad and that was a nice addition.
hbakke on March 06, 2021

We really enjoyed this salad. I used butter lettuce as a substitution for romaine and used a couple strip steaks rather than the more expensive filet mignons. The vinaigrette individually seemed a bit too sweet, but combined with the blue cheese was perfect. I would make this again.