After six decades of making Waldorf salad, this is the recipe we've settled on. Neither you nor the grandkids will have the slightest inkling that it's good for you. All you'll notice is the taste.
Ingredients
- apples, peeled and: 8 piece (cut into bite-size pieces)
- ½ lemons: 1 piece (juiced)
- pecans: 2 cups (chopped)
- mayonnaise (such as Hellman's®): 1 cup (to taste)
- raisins: 1 cup
- orange zest: 1 tsp (dried)
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- celery seed: 0.5 tsp
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- pinch stevia powder: 1 piece (to taste)
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Stages of cooking
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Place apples in a large bowl and sprinkle lemon juice over the top; toss to coat. Stir pecans, mayonnaise, raisins, orange zest, vanilla extract, celery seed, salt, and stevia into apples until well-combined. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, about 30 minutes.