These Apple Recipes Are Trending, and We Want to Try All of Them Cucumbers are out, apples are in. 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 relatively 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. 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. 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.
- Add 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
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
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!