These Apple Recipes Are Trending, and We Want to Try All of Them
Cucumbers are out, apples are in.
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As far as viral recipes go, the latest trend of slicing a whole vegetable or fruit, adding it to a plastic quart container, tossing in some ingredients, shaking it up, and eating right from the container is pretty simple. This trend is fairly new.
About a month ago, TikTok was abuzz with the phrase, "Sometimes, you have to eat a whole cucumber." A viral cucumber salad trend took over the platform, started by TikTok user @logagm. You’d think no one had ever made a cucumber salad before, but we know that’s not true.
What seemed to catch people’s attention was the method of making the salad, and that approach quickly spread to other produce. Another TikTok creator, @sarahargrove, embraced the idea and created an apple salad using a yummy ingredient combination. Her post has over 87,000 views.
This Apple Salad Is TikTok's New Favorite Recipe
“Name a better pair than goat cheese and apples,” Grove writes in the caption of her TikTok video, where she builds an apple salad in a plastic quart container before shaking it up and digging in.
She adds the following to the container:
One peeled and sliced apple
Crumbled goat cheese
Chopped honey-roasted pecans
A handful of dried cranberries
Raspberry poppyseed dressing
She doesn’t give exact measurements, encouraging viewers to “measure with their hearts.” She then puts the lid on, shakes it up, and digs in.
More Apple Salad Combinations
It looks delicious, and what's even better is that people are leaving suggestions in the comments for other apple and ingredient combinations. Here are a few:
Granny Smith apple with onions, feta, dried cranberries, and pecans, topped with poppyseed dressing
Caramel, caramel yogurt, white chocolate chips, and pecans
Apples, peanut butter, soy sauce, chili crisp, and peanuts
Pumpkin purée, Greek yogurt, cinnamon, and pecans
Nutella, pecans, maple syrup, and chocolate chips
Whipped cream cheese, ricotta, a little sugar, mini chocolate chips, and pistachios
Salted caramel pretzel yogurt, chocolate chips, and peanuts
Other TikTok creators are getting behind the trend as well. We love @bethany_lynn15's idea of using peanut butter and almonds in her apple salad almost as much as we love the idea of combining the two trends with @mutammara's spicy cucumber-apple salad. And if spicy isn't your thing, we have the perfect recipe for a simple Cucumber and Apple Salad that’s easy to whip up in a quart container.
It might be tempting to dismiss this trend as just another salad, but as one of Grove’s followers pointed out, “People were like, ‘please, it’s just cucumber salad,’ but I feel like it’s opened up creative food doors for a lot of people! This is brilliant—you really are onto something.” Not only is the trend sparking creativity, but it's also encouraging people to eat more fruits and veggies. Sounds like a win-win to us!
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