Chicken, Pear & Spinach Salad

We found it so refreshing, pleasing to the taste and it looks good too. I have already served it several times, both with canned and fresh pears.

Strawberries are great also.

To all salad lovers.....great change from the 'traditional' toss salad. Can add a litttle "crunch" with sunflower seed kernels. Also can use mandarine oranges instead of the pears, you'll love it!

Love the salad. I had to use strawberries once, it was a good substitut.

Great,quick, and satisfying.Never ate raw spinach before. What have I been missing!

Excellent! Have made it a weekly salad in our house.

This is such a light and easy recipe.... it is perfect with your meal or just as a light lunch. I really love this. My Church Friends loved it also... Wednesday night dinner was a hit thanks to this recipe.

I made a meatless variation of this recipe. I added 1/2 cup sharp shredded cheddar cheese and 1/3 cup each raisins and walnut pieces. It was excellant and very refreshing. The combination of the poppy seed dressing the pears and the other items was wonderful. The next time I make it I may add sliced mushrooms and dried cranberries instead of the raisins and maybe switch out the cheddar cheese and use feta. I am a variety cook who loves to try different combinations. Thank you for this receipe. It is definately a keeper and one to share with my family and friends.

I thought I'd never find the creamy poppyseed dressing since it is new. Finally I found it, made shis recipe for supper and yum, yum yum. The stores had no barlett pears, which we like, so I used a large Jonathan apple. I don't know if the dressing is what made this so delicious or the combination of the ingredients. Either way, my husband and I loved it and will definitely make it again. I could eat this recipe once a week. I used chicken tenderloins,sprayed pam spray on a griddle and cooked them. Then I sliced the chicken, sliced the apple, added the dressing and then the spinach. It may have been a recipe for four, but my husband and I finished it off and let our little Dachshund/Chihuahua lick out the bowl. Yum! Restaurants should serve this reipe! And it was so easy, and healthy! Please show us more wonderful, easy, yummy recipes like this one.