Ginger’s savory salad
www.rawveganginger.com
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An easy way to incorporate more raw living foods into your diet is to make a big, delicious green salad with all of your favorite ingredients. I love a savory salad at the end of the day after I get my sweet fruit fix in. Salty. Crunchy. Creamy. Savory. All of the flavors I like to experience in a salad.
INGREDIENTS
Base:
2 heads of Romaine
1 Cucumber julienned
Handful of Watercress
Dressing:
1 1/2 cups chopped Celery
1/4 - 1/2 ripe Avocado (more or less depending on your fat preference)
Juice of 1/2 a large Lemon
Fresh Dill and/or Basil
Optional: Red Bell Pepper
Topping:
1 cup chopped Carrot
1 tsp fresh grated Ginger
Orange Heirloom Tomatoes
Optional add ons:
Raw Sauerkraut
Dulse (dried sea vegetable)
Broccoli sprouts
tools
All you need for this recipe is a high speed blender for the dressing and a large bowl for the salad.
directions
Chop up romaine and put into a bowl. Mix in the julienned cucumber noodles. Pick a handful of watercress leaves and set to the side for the topping.
To create the dressing, combine the chopped celery, avocado, red peppers, lemon juice & herbs and blend on high for about 5-10 seconds or until your desired consistency.
Pour the dressing on to your salad or save any extra in a mason jar and put in the refrigerator. It will stay fresh for up to 24 hours.
With the excess still in the blender, add in the chopped the carrots and grated ginger and and pulse until mixture and pulse until mixture is a "crumble" like consistency
Top salad with watercress and/or more of your favorite herbs.
The best way to get your greens in is by making a homemade dressing yourself and liberally pouring it all over your salad. The only way I used to eat salads back in the day was to load it with fat and dairy filled ranch dressing. A lot of store bought salad dressings on the shelves contain high amounts of sodium and even refined sugars. Back in the day, I didn't know that I had the power to make my own healthy dressing without the negative health effects of dairy. Eating a whole food plant based diet taught me that I don't need to restrict my favorite "savory" foods, I can create my own healthy version and eat abundantly!
The stainless steel bowl I eat my salads out of is actually from my grandparent's kitchen on my mother's side back from the 1950's. I never got to meet my grandfather but his nickname was 'Red'. I am so grateful I get to enjoy my healthy recipes out of the bowl he used and connect with his loving spirit. I love holding on to precious (and useful) sentiments.
When you eat more fiber rich plant foods, you will soon start to see and feel the difference. One of the most common questions vegans get is, "where do you get your protein from?" The truth is that all plants (including fruit) contain protein. As long as you eat enough and a variety of plant foods, you will consume enough protein. "Any protein you get from an animal is simply recycled plant protein," says Dr. Milton Mills. The fact is, less than 3% of Americans get the recommended minimum adequate intake of fiber, so instead of asking where vegans get their protein from, first check to see if you're consuming enough fiber. The easiest way to get your daily fiber is by eating a big, delicious, green salad like this one. I always say, if the salad isn't all over your face, then it wasn't good enough in the first place!
