Everyday Detox Salad

Eating the rainbow is easy with this vibrant Everyday Detox Salad, which is packed with raw wholesome ingredients that are rich with antioxidants.

HEALTHY SALAD RECIPE

This Everyday Detox Salad is satisfying enough to serve as a vegan main, but also makes a great starter salad.  This healthy salad recipe is a mix of baby spinach, kale, grated raw beets and carrots, shredded purple cabbage, cauliflower, cucumber and yellow squash noodles, all tossed in a delicious heart healthy salad dressing.

HEALTHY SALAD INGREDIENTS

• Baby spinach and kale
• Carrot
• Purple Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Yellow squash
• Cucumber
•  Red beet

How to Make this Detox Salad

1. Grate the carrot and beet, make spiralized noodles out of the yellow squash and chop the cabbage, cauliflower and cucumber.
2. Toss the carrot, yellow squash, cabbage, cauliflower and cucumber in a large bowl.
3. Toss with Lemon Herb Vinaigrette
4. Top with piles of grated beet.
5. Add freshly ground black pepper and sea salt to taste

We’ve all heard about eating the rainbow…which is nothing more than eating colorful, antioxidant-rich foods to nourish our bodies so we feel healthier and have more energy.  This detox salad is also a great healthy salad recipe for weight loss.  It’s big and filling and loaded with nutrient-dense vegetables to fuel the body and satisfy the taste buds and support your daily wellness and weight-loss goals.

Whenever I’ve added beets to my salads, they’ve usually been steamed and cut into cute little bite-size cubes.  But for this salad, the beets are raw and grated. Beets contain an antioxidant called Betalains.  Betalains work to decrease oxidative stress and aid in detoxification in our bodies by breaking down toxins so they can be excreted from our bodies.  Traditionally, beets are valued for their support in detoxification and helping to purify our blood and our liver.  The Red Betalain pigments in beets are not very heat stable, so it’s best to eat beets raw or to juice them.  I’m pretty hooked on grating beets to add to my salads now.  Less of a mess too!

WHAT IS DETOX SALAD

Detox diet plans tend to promote toxin elimination, boost immune system with healthy foods and improve circulation. Rather than going on an rigid detox diet, you can incorporate healthy meals into your daily wellness program, like detox salad.  A detox salad is typically a gorgeous salad made with raw fresh colorful produce rich with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.

The ingredients in this superfoods salad help to stimulate enzymes in the  liver to help our bodies naturally eliminate toxins.  Regularly eating  detoxing foods helps to strengthen our immune system functioning and to restore balance to our body’s systems. Eating a detoxifying salad like this with its rainbow of colors is a good way to help keep our bodies in optimum health.  This salad is tossed in this delicious Cleansing Lemon Herb Vinaigrette, which has its own list of nutritional reasons for making it!  MORE HEALTHY SALAD RECIPES YOU’LL LOVE

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Yield: 8 servings

Everyday Detox Salad

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

This vibrant Everyday Detox Salad is loaded with raw wholesome ingredients that will give your immune system a good boost!  

Ingredients

• 8 cups baby spinach and kale leaves
• 1 cup carrot, grated
• 1 cup cauliflower, chopped
• 2 small yellow squash, grated or spiralized into noodles
• 1 cucumber, chopped or spiralized into noodles
• 1 cup purple cabbage, shredded
• 1 large red beet, peeled and grated
• For the Cleansing Lemon Herb Vinaigrette
• 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• juice of 2 lemons
• 1 heaping teaspoon lemon zest
• Fistful fresh cilantro
• Fistful fresh parsley
• 1 garlic clove, peeled and minced
• 2 teaspoons pure clover honey
• 1-1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste

Instructions

1. Toss the spinach, kale, carrot, cauliflower, squash noodles, cucumber and cabbage in a large bowl.
2. Toss with Lemon Herb Vinaigrette
3. Top with piles of grated beet.
4. Add freshly ground black pepper and sea salt to taste

For the Cleansing Lemon Herb Vinaigrette

1. Blend all ingredients in a blender.
2. Refrigerate before serving

Note: If you don't have a blender, then chop the herbs and add the ingredients to a mason jar and seal the lid. Shake well. Refrigerate before serving.