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This Superfood Salad is loaded with good for you ingredients like kale, quinoa and chia seeds and is topped off with a fresh and light maple vinaigrette. The salad comes together in just 15 minutes and is perfect if you’re looking for a super healthy meal!
A healthy salad with superfoods
This recipe for Superfood Salad is made with an assortment of vegetables, nuts, seeds and fruits for the ultimate delicious and healthy salad!
It’s a great salad to enjoy on its own, (a small portion as an appetizer, or a large portion as a main) as a side or paired with some light protein to make it a more filling meal.
Why you’ll love this recipe
- This recipe comes together in just 15 minutes and will leave you feeling energized!
- It’s topped off with a homemade salad dressing that is easy to make and perfect to store in the fridge to top off all your salads for the week.
- This recipe is super adaptable. You can add pretty much any type of vegetable, grain, nut, seed, fruit or protein you like to it!.
How to make Superfood Salad
Chop up all your ingredients into bite-sized pieces, or however, you like them in a salad.
Make the salad dressing by mixing all the dressing ingredients into a small mason jar or bowl. Pour as much of the dressing as you like onto the salad.
Toss everything together and serve immediately.
What are superfoods?
Superfoods are foods that are nutritiously dense with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
I use the term superfood loosely since there are many foods that are very nutritious and can be considered superfoods. This salad is made with dark leafy greens, fruits with lots of vitamins, nuts and seeds with healthy fats and omega-3s, which are all great for you!
Tips for making this recipe perfectly
- Buy organic when you can to make sure your fruits and vegetables are not sprayed with any pesticides.
- The salad dressing is easiest to make directly in a mason jar. Just add all the ingredients, put the lid on and shake!
- If you want to have leftover salad for later, put some aside and store in the fridge before adding the salad dressing.
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Superfood Salad
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings
- Category: Appetizer/Main
- Method: Mix
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Superfood Salad loaded with good-for-you ingredients high in vitamins and antioxitants!
Ingredients
- 2 cups lacinato kale, shredded
- 2 cups spinach, chopped
- 1/2 cup red cabbage, shreded
- 1 cup quinoa, cooked
- 1/2 cup broccoli florrets
- 1 pepper, chopped (I like a mix of red and yellow peppers)
- 1/2 green apple, cut into cubes
- 1/3 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1/4 cup toasted slivered almond
- 2 tbsp hemp seeds
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
Maple Dijon Dressing
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp dijon mustard
- pinch of cayenne
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Mix all the salad ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Mix the salad dressing ingredients together in a mason jar or in a cup until well combined. Taste the dressing and adjust seasoning if needed.
- Pour as much dressing as you like onto the salad and toss eveything together.
Notes
Buy organic when you can to make sure your fruits and vegetables are not sprayed with any pesticides.
The salad dressing is easiest to make directly in a mason jar. Just add all the ingredients, put the lid on and shake!
If you want to have leftover salad for later, put some aside and store in the fridge before adding the salad dressing.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 of the recipe
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 100mg
- Fat: 13g
- Carbohydrates: 24g
- Fiber: 6g
- Protein: 8.5g
Hello
This recipe looks delicious! I am wondering if you activate the chia seeds beforehand or if you leave them dry?
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe ?
Hi Erica, no, I just add them right in 🙂
This salad is delicious, I didn’t have pomegranate so replaced that with craisins, and added coconut flakes and tuna. The whole family loved it
Thanks Bruce! Happy you all enjoyed it.
Easy to make and delicious!
Glad you enjoyed 🙂
I made this yesterday- I loooove it! Perfect combination of nuttiness from the quinoa and almonds, and sweetness from the apple.. and the dressing, OMG. I think I will make a triple batch just to keep on hand in the fridge. I’ll be making this alot! Next time I’m going to sub strawberries for the apple, and next after that I’ll do mandarin oranges, just to mix it up and change it. Thank you for the recipe!
Thanks Ginger! So happy you liked it!
This is a fantastic salad, The dressing is my new favourite.
I have been following you since I discovered the Northern Thai soup recipe which quickly became a staple in my house. I’ve yet to hear anything but praise for this recipe.
Today I am trying the golden chai chia pudding.
I simply love every vegan recipe I have tried.
Is your email cookbook vegan? We are strickly vegan in this house, love cooking, love flavour and spices.
So glad to have found your page about three years ago. I grow organic vegetables on mFrog Pond Farm in Ontario, Canada and have been able to pass on many ideas of what to do with vegetables toy customers.
Please don’t stop doing qhat you do. ?
Thank you so much Linda, I’m so happy to hear your enjoying the recipes on the blog 🙂 You’ll find many vegan recipes and some vegetarian. The vegetarian recipes often give a vegan option as well!