A Unique & Delicious Salad Recipe
I'm excited to share this delicious recipe from Chef Jessica Bella, a talent here in Boulder with unique ideas for creating delicious and super healthy recipes. She's a Certified Natural Foods Chef and Graduated from The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts. She focuses on creating vibrant, Superfood rich recipes that nourish the body. We are collaborating on some recipes to share with you and I think you'll love this salad.
Fresh and crispy romaine as the base (you can also add dark leafy greens like baby spinach, arugula, and kale), sweet and crunchy apples (feel free to use both tart green and sweeter Honeycrisp), tart *unsweetened cranberries or cherries and omega-3 rich walnuts or gut-cleansing pumpkin seeds make this salad full of flavor, texture and a plethora of vitamins minerals.
It's the dressing that makes this salad shine. It’s creamy, savory and sweet; includes potassium, magnesium and calcium-rich tahini, fresh turmeric for an anti-inflammatory kick, a whole orange for vitamin c, immune boosting garlic and heavy metal detoxing cilantro (or parsley if you are one of those that dislike cilantro).
This salad is wonderful to enjoy any season. It’s bright and refreshing for summer, and the vitamin punch in this dish make this a perfect immune boosting salad for winter.
Looking for the perfect plant-based dinner?:
- Vegan BBQ Meatloaf
- Acorn Squash Stuffed with Quinoa
- Mushroom Burgundy Sauce Over Polenta
- Sweet Potato Veggie Lasagna
You can find her these days at the Integral Center whipping up delicious recipes for sale like fully loaded sweet potatoes with spiced chickpeas & Asian firecracker slaw with almond tahini ginger dressing. Visit her website, Sundrops Organics or Facebook page.
She also offers Sacred Meditative Dinners and other conscious community events that focus on the relationship with our food, transformative healing retreats, and also offers personal Wellness and Vibrancy coaching and personally tailored prepared food and cleanse programs. You can also follow her @chefjessicabella on Instagram.
I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments below for this Romaine Salad Kale Apples Cranberries recipe! If you have a photo, post it on my Facebook page, tag me using the hashtag #plantbasedcooking
| Prep Time | 25 minutes |
Servings | servings |
- 1 head of romaine lettuce washed and chopped
- 3 large leaves of kale washed and chopped
- 2 carrots shredded
- 1 apple seeded and cut into thin slices
- 6 scallions white and green parts chopped
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
- 1/4 cup Tahini
- 1 orange peeled
- 2 cloves fresh garlic chopped
- 1-2 Tbl fresh turmeric rough chopped (or substitute1/2 tsp powdered turmeric)
- 1/4 cup fresh lime or lemon juice (1 whole)
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
- dash of cayenne pepper
- sea salt and pepper to taste
Ingredients Salad
Dressing
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- Place all of the salad ingredients, except the apple slices, into a large bowl.
- Place the dressing ingredients into a blender and blend on high until smooth.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad ingredients and toss to coat.
- Place the apple slices around the bowl in an decorative pattern.
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