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After a bit of thinking, this is the best title I could have thought of. Yup. There’s so much goodness in this salad, that they won’t all fit in the title line. I think I mentioned this before, that my favourite salads are all a combination of both vegetables and fruits. The fruit always add a twist, a sweet kick to the dish. I love coming up with new and unusual combinations and keep varying my favourite, wholesome ingredients. My favourite supplier for healthy and organic ingredients is Indigo Herbs Of Glastonbury and I discovered them a few years ago (read about it here: Christmas Bon Bons With Dates And Walnuts). For this recipe I used mainly their products.
How is this a SUPERFOOD salad?
Because it contains an extremely dense concentration of vital nutrients, plant based protein (lentil and quinoa) vitamins (vitamin A, K, C, E, B6, B1, B2, manganese, copper, calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium – and that’s only KALE ), antioxidants, good fats (seed mix) healthy enzymes and fibre.
The best thing about it, it’s not a big deal to prepare it. The only extra step is really to soak the lentils for about 2 hours before cooking. This superfood salad can be both a main meal or a side dish and also can be paired with practically anything. The recipe serves 4 people as a main dish.
Tips and swaps
As you can see, there is a lot of flexibility with the ingredients, depending what can you get your hands on and what’s in season:
- you can swap maple syrup for honey or agave syrup – anything similar, but probably not golden syrup (that’s for baking!)
- nectarines can be swapped for peaches, but you want to peel them first
- goji berries can be also swapped for fresh pomegranate
Method
Before cooking, soak the lentils for 2 hours, it will reduce cooking time. Rinse them, add water and salt, then cook them for 30-40 minutes, until they are tender. At the same time you might want to cook the quinoa too: rinse it, add about double amount of water and some salt, then cook it for 15 minutes. They are ready when they loose their little “tail”. Julienne the carrot (cut them into matchstick size) and chop the kale. Prepare the dressing. Add them all to a salad bowl when the cooked ingredients cooled down and mix the dressing in. Cut the nectarines into long pieces. Serve it on a plate, adding the nectarines last, sprinkle with the mixed seeds and the goji berries.
Yummiest Superfood Salad Recipe
Ingredients
For the salad
- 150 g cooked brown lentils
- 100 g cooked tricolour quinoa
- 100 g fresh kale washed and chopped into small strips
- 1 medium carrot peeled, and julienned
- 2 ripe ripe nectarines stone removed and sliced
- 4 handfuls goji berries
- 4 tbsp gourmet seed mix for salads unsalted
- salt and pepper to taste
For the dressing
- 2 tsp harissa paste
- 1 tsp maple syrup or honey
- splash of lime juice
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Before cooking, soak the lentils for 2 hours, it will reduce cooking time. Rinse them, add water and salt, then cook them for 30-40 minutes, until they are tender. At the same time you might want to cook the quinoa too: rinse it, add about double amount of water and some salt, then cook it for 15 minutes. They are ready when they loose their little “tail”. Julienne the carrot (cut them into matchstick size) and chop the kale. Prepare the dressing by mixing all the ingredients at the same time.Add them all to a salad bowl when the cooked ingredients cooled down and mix the dressing in. Cut the nectarines into long pieces. Serve it on a platter, adding the nectarines last, sprinkle with the mixed seeds and the goji berries, so that they sit on the top looking appetising.Enjoy!
124 comments
Galaxy!
galaxy
as a bat, it`s Bounty,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bot otherwise any chocolate that`s mint-flavoured
Dark chocolate
I love wispa golds !
My favourite chocolate is Cadburys.
Galaxy caramel x
Cadbury dairy milk love it
I like Cadbury’s Picnic
At the moment it’s Galaxy 🙂
Really dark chocolate with no milk added at all when I can find it!
Nestle Mint Aero
That looks so good!! Galaxy caramel!
Kit Kat.
Love white chocolate buttons
Great recipe, especially for summer 🙂
#FabFridayPost
I like either white fro Green and Black or any dark chocolate
Yummy!!! Oh and Chocolate!!! My god!!! #FabFridayPost
Yum! It’s all about the dressing and I love harissa paste. #FabFridayPosts
Love milk chocolate pralines x
I love white chocolate or butterscotch whenever I can find it! I do enjoy a caramac
Guylian Belgian Shell chocolates!
Galaxy
Thanks for joining us at #LuckyLinky xx
Galaxy
My favorite chocolate is good milk chocolate, no favorite brand!
Hot Chocolate Drink
This looks sooo pretty! It’s so funny because these are all things that I never eat nor do I think about eating/picking up at the market when I’m getting groceries. I really need to explore the world of superfoods more.
xo, Kimberly
i love any dark chocolate!
I love salad! The combo you’ve created looks absolutely delicious. Big fan of lentils and quinoa in salads.
milk chocolate is my fave
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Twirl
I like fruit and nut at room temperature.
I love orange chocolate and raw vanoffee chocolate
I like lindt chocolate
milk and hazelnut chocolate
I love rich, decadent dark chocolate
Anything Hotel Chocolat based!
Swiss Milk Chocolate
any good quality dark chocolate
I love the smooth texture of Galaxy
Galaxy
I’m a huge chocoholic, I love Thornton’s , lily O’Brien
Mmmmmmm such a hard decision as I love all chocolate but I would have to say ferrero rochers 🙂 Yummy!
Ferrero Rocher hazlenut. x
I love Lindt Chocolate Balls
Dark chocolate
I love white chocolate
Dark chocolate
This looks absolutely amazing! I think it would be perfect fuel food for my half marathon training so am going to get the ingredients in this week! Yummy! x
This looks SO lovely.
I love things that are bright & healthy, so eye catching too xo
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I like dark chocolate! 🙂
Anything involving praline is my favourite. I’m about to try making praline at home for the first time, so fingers crossed for that!
milk mmm
dark chocolate with chilli
That is such a colourful plate, wow! It looks delicious! LOVE lentils! #globalblogging
This looks amazing, so healthy and colourful, and perfect for Summer. Thanks so much for linking up at #fortheloveofBLOG. Claire x
I love dark chocolate, especially if it has flavours like cardamon or orange.
I love ANY chocolate, but esp WHITE!
I love anything that’s salted caramel! What a fab giveaway and recipe, I’ll have to try it, it looks so colourful!
Thank you for liking up with #StayClassyMama, I hope you can join again next time!
Good old milk chocolate
Healthy, yummy and beautiful!
Thanks for linking up to #globalblogging
I love any type of mint chocolate!
Also love the superfood salad! I don’t make enough salads so have bookmarked this page, thank you! 🙂 Polly #fabfridaypost
marzipan covered with dark chocolate! A real treat!
That’s my favourite too!
I love really Dark chocolate
Dark chocolate with orange is my favourite!
Dairy Milk
Galaxy Caramel!
My favourite is plain dairy milk
The white toblerone, I make myself sick with it because I eat to much of it
Dark chocolate is my favourite .
Thorntons chocolates are amazing
My favourite chocolate has to be anything milk chocolate especially cadbury chocolate buttons
Godiva
oh my goodness this salad looks so yummy! and pretty much guilt free!! Might be using this recipe before I go on my summer holidays!
It is pretty much guilt free! Thanks for commenting.
Dark chocolate is my favourite
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Wispa
At the moment my favourite is Lindt Excellence 85%!
I’m loving the Absolute black 100% chocolate range from Montezuma at the moment. It’s really intense and dark and is sugar free! If I’m really treating myself though I’d go for Ferrero Roche ?
These look really good. I’m trying to eat myself healthy at the moment too. They’re also pretty local to me. Wahoo!
My favourite chocolate at the moment is the vegan brand Moo Free.
i love dairy milk
hot chocolate
Good quality dark chocolate, green & blacks is good
White chocolate but cetainly not fussy!
I love very dark chocolate which I can then use in recipes as well as eating it while I cook!
Love Whole Nut Chocolate .. but will eat any if it’s on offer 🙂
I love dark chocolate with a high cocoa %!
snickers
Caramel yummy and also white chocolate
Galaxy x
hazel nut praline
I love milk chocolate
I love all chocolate but when I am trying to be healthy I like to eat the 75 percent dark chocolate, a little a day as it’s full of iron
Cadburys whole nut!
I love white chocolate x
I love milk chocolate
White chocolate
I love Green and Blacks dark chocolate. I don’t have much of a sweeth tooth so dark is perfect.
I genuinely couldn’t pick a favourite. There’s no chocolate I dislike. I even like marmite chocolate (yes that really is a thing).
My favourite at the minute is peanut butter kitkat chunky ?
Crunchie
Cadburys Dairy Milk
I love Vego bars, and Hotel Chocolat’s dark chocolate too
twirl x
Lindt praline
cadburys fruit and nut
I love chilli chocolate 🙂
peanut chocolate drink
Dairy Milk 🙂
I love dark chocolate the most,
dark chocolate xxx
I love milk chocolate
the darker the better! And preferably organic.
Hersheys Cookies n cream! mm
I love galaxy 🙂
Lindt
I am actually doing an elimination diet to figure out what is upsetting my stomach and I am always looking for recipes that would use only the ingredients I am allowed to eat. This salad would be perfect for lunch! So healthy!
Wow this salad looks amazing Eva and something I would really enjoy. I love the selection of nuts you have put in there. It looks really bright and colourful and super healthy too. xx
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