FRESH & VIBRANT DETOX SALAD

It’s detox time!

This detox salad is a fresh, vibrant and healthy combination of detoxifying beets, beet greens, crunchy carrots, crisp apples, cilantro, naturally sweet raisins and protein rich hemp hearts all tossed in a fresh and flavorful citrus ginger dressing.

I’m so excited to share this delicious salad with you today. It has a bit of sweetness from the raisins, carrots and apple, a little earthiness from the beets, a slight sour from the lime juice, and some zest from the ginger and cardamom. Add to that how colorful it is, healthy, nutritious, easy to make and so fresh – it’s a detox salad keeper!

The flavors pair and mingle well, and I think those of you who love detox salads will definitely find this combination pleasing on many levels. I can literally make a large batch of this salad and eat it all day long, for a few days on end to boot. It’s what’s for dinner, and lunch tomorrow!

After a weekend of trials with the last recipe, Pizza Pie + Balsamic Tomato Sauce + Roasted Vegetables, it was time to get away from heavy, carb filled foods and get into something fresh and detoxifying. And this vibrant detox salad was the best thing ever!

Detox Salad Ingredients

• beet with greens
• apple
• carrots
• cilantro
• organic raisins or golden raisins
• hemp hearts or sesame seeds
• organic tofu (optional)
• lime juice (lemon is fine too)
• ginger
• cardamom, optional
• pure maple syrup or coconut nectar, optional

Tips and Suggestions

• For the beets, feel free to use golden beets instead. Red beets can be a bit messy. For this reason I decided to chop my beets instead of grating them, which tends to really leave a red wet mess. But of course, feel free to grate your beets if you rather. It will give extra moisture to your salad if you do. Even grating the apple will release a lot of moisture adding extra juices as well (at least my Fuji apples did). Do what feels best to you!
• Here we can use the beets and the greens – a win all around! If you can’t find the beets with their greens, use chopped spinach, dandelion greens, even lacinato kale (aka: dinosaur or Tuscan kale) would be great.
• The cardamom is optional. If you don’t use it often, there is no need to buy this just for the salad dressing although it is delicious and you may find other uses for it either here soon, or elsewhere. If you don’t have it, you will still have a great dressing.
• This salad tastes better the longer your able to let it set and let the flavors mingle. This is a great salad to prepare in advance and store in the fridge until ready to serve.

How To Make Detox Salad

Start by making the dressing, combine the lime/lemon juice, ginger, cardamon and maple syrup together in a small bowl and set aside to let the flavors mellow and come together. Julienne the beets, beet greens, apples and carrots. Place them in a large bowl with the raisins and cilantro. Pour the dressing over the salad ingredients and toss to coat. (You can also make this ahead of time and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.) Serve topped with a good sprinkle of hemp hearts or sesame seeds, and some extra raisins if you like as they add a nice sweetness.

That’s all it takes to create a fresh & vibrant detox salad! 

For More Fresh & Healthy Salad Inspiration

• Apple, Beet & Fennel Salad
• Cucumber + Cantaloupe Salad
• Kale & Red Cabbage Slaw
• Kale, Date & Almond Salad + Lemon Dressing
• Super Spinach Salad + Carrot Miso Ginger Dressing

FRESH & VIBRANT DETOX SALAD

Super nutritious, easy, beautiful and delicious! Beets, apples, carrots and more…

• Prep Time: 15 min
• Total Time: 15 min
• Yield: Serves 2 - 4
• Category: Salad
• Cuisine: Vegan

Ingredients

• 1 large beet with greens, beet julienned or grated and greens julienned
• 1 large apple, cored and diced
• 2 medium carrots, grated
• 1/2 cup cilantro, roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup organic raisins or golden raisins
• a few tablespoons hemp hearts or sesame seeds, to serve

Ginger Lime Dressing

• 3 – 4 tablespoons lime juice (lemon is fine too)
• 1 inch knob of ginger, finely grated (i used a microplane)
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom, or to taste
• 1/2 – 1 teaspoon pure maple syrup or coconut nectar, optional

Instructions

In a small bowl, mix together the dressing ingredients. Set aside to let the flavors mellow and come together. Check dressing for flavor before serving.

Prepare your salad ingredients and use 3 to 4 large beet leaves (about 1 cup lightly packed) and place all ingredients in a large bowl. Pour dressing over the salad ingredients, toss to coat. (You can also make this ahead of time and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.)

Serve topped with a good sprinkle of hemp hearts or sesame seeds, and some extra raisins if you like as they add a nice sweetness.

Serves 2 large portions or 4 -6 small portions.

NOTES:

If you don’t find beets with the greens, use spinach, dandelion greens or lacinato kale instead. Use golden beets in place of red beets to keep the color mess to a minimum.

The cardamom can be optional. If you don’t use it often, there is no need to buy this just for the salad dressing although it is delicious and you may find other uses for it either here soon, or elsewhere. If you don’t have it, you will still have a great dressing.

This salad tastes better the longer your able to let it set and let the flavors mingle. This is a great salad to make in advance and store in the fridge until ready to serve.