This easy-to-make Detox Diet Salad is bursting with fresh, healthy detoxifying veggies, fruit, and seeds, then drizzled with sweet honey and almond butter dressing. It's like eating a rainbow of nutritious superfoods that tastes so good you won't feel like you are on a diet.
This detox salad is an excellent springboard to start a new healthy diet. You will also want to add Green Juice to your menu. It will help your body detox and lose weight. Next, print the recipe for my quick and flavorful Rainbow Cauliflower Salad. For healthy snacking, these Vegan Stuffed Mushrooms are sure to be a hit with everyone, even if they are not on a diet!
Why You Need This Winter Detox Salad
I must confess, Christmas holiday menus tend to be filled with some foods that are special once-a-year treats. Many recipes we make at our house evoke memories of family members making special cookies, fudge, or other sweets.
Now that the Christmas splurge is over, I need to reset my body and fill it with healthy food and drink choices. New Year's resolutions are easy to keep if you make this ultimate detox salad for a meal each week in January. It is a tasty way to start rebooting your diet.
No More Diet Excuse
- After I was diagnosed with colon cancer, I decided to help my body heal by eating a vegan diet. After my 5-year healing mark, I began to add some well-chosen meats back into my diet that Dr. Hyman suggested in his book. The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World. From what I learned from Dr. Hyman's book, I created this rainbow detox salad.
- It's incredible how many people have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet. However, they are still determining the best way to achieve their health goals. Have you heard of the saying, eat the rainbow? It's an acronym to help you choose a healthy plant-based diet, just like this detox salad recipe.
- It's easy to make and so pretty it pleases your senses, eyes, smell, and taste.
- This salad is loaded with only foods that are good for you so you can freely indulge.
- It helps cleanse your body from the effects of poor choices in foods you ate over the holiday.
Why This Is A Detox Salad
Nature's naturally colored plant foods contain phytonutrients in their vibrant red, orange, yellow, green, and other bright colors. These are a class of active plant chemicals that offer above and beyond the essential vitamins and minerals, fats, proteins, and carbs to help supercharge your immune system.
Phytonutrients protect the body from a wide array of illnesses, free radicals, and modern diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and other serious health issues. This healthy salad also enhances your immunity, which is important during cold and flu season.
✝️ Hospitality Tip: This colorful detox salad is perfect for serving someone vegan or on a healthy weight-loss diet. The recipe can be doubled or tripled to make a big salad serving a large group. For table conversation, this colorful salad also has a great conversation lead to the story of God using the rainbow to make a promise to man. Genesis 9:13-16
Superfood Ingredients
Here are just a few of the detoxifying ingredients and why they help your body.
- Red Cabbage: This color cabbage is packed with vitamin C, making it an antioxidant-rich immune booster. Red cabbage contains 10x more vitamins and cancer-fighting flavonoids than green cabbage.
- Kale: This leafy green is high in anti-cancer antioxidants, which will help rid your body of toxins. It is also packed with vitamins K, A, and B and healthy fats such as omega-3.
- Yellow Bell Peppers: Peppers are rich in antioxidants and will help your body cleanse and detox.
- Cilantro: Has benefit is cilantro's ability to rid the body of heavy metals.
- Green Apples: The apple's fiber content stimulates the digestive system and helps the body in its detoxification process.
- Lemon Juice: The juice is packed with vitamin C
- Almond Butter: This is a good source of vitamin E, which helps reduce inflammation.
- Ginger: This little root has the ability to stimulate digestion and circulation, which will help cleanse the build-up of waste and toxins in the colon.
- Sunflower seeds: high-magnesium content sunflower seeds have the ability to lob out bacteria and germs from cells and flush out toxins from the body.
Produce Tips
- Tip: When at the grocery store, choose organic produce for the best detox salad. You do not want to put extra chemicals and pesticides into your body.
- Check the expiration dates on your fresh veggies. The fresher veggies are more nutritious than older produce.
Simple Steps To Make Detox Diet Salad
Step 1: Prep Veggies, Fruit and Seeds
Dice and cut red cabbage, kale, cilantro, and peppers. Next peel orange and dice into small pieces. Core and dice apple. Remove seeds from the pomiganate fruit.
⭐️ Here are a few prep tips that will help you make a delishous salad.
- Red cabbage: Be sure to slice it very thin.
- Make Ahead Tip: If you are going to make the salad ahead of time, wait to add the red cabbage just before serving. It tends to bleed onto other veggies after sitting a while.
- Kale: Be sure and remove the spiny stem from all your kale leave before chopping. See instructions below.
- Cilantro: Be sure to use fresh cilantro, not dried. I like to bunch my cilantro all together and cut it with scissors.
- Pumpkin and sunflower seeds: These can be raw or toasted, whichever you prefer
- Pomegranate seeds: You can buy the whole fruits and pick out the seeds. It would be easier to buy them in your produce section already shelled in a clear sealed cup.
*See the recipe card for a complete list of ingredients, measurements and instructions.
How To Prepare Kale For A Salad
- Remove Stems: Using a sharp knife, trim the large vein of the stem off of the kale leaves. Discard stems.
2. Wash: Run leaves under cold water rubbing any dirt off then pat dry with a paper towel.
3. Cut Kale: You can use a knife to cut the cale into bite size pieces or pull the leaves apart with your hands.
4. Massage Kale: It's important to not skip this step. This helps to break down the tough fibers in the leafy greens physically. Your kale will become softer, a bit sweeter, and easier to digest.
5. Place the kale in a large bowl, drizzle with just a little olive oil and sprinkle on a dash of salt. Using clean hands, massage teh kale with the oil for 2 minites or so. Turn and toss as you massage.
Step 2: Mix
In a large bowl mix all the veggies, fruit and seeds. If you are not going to serve it right away, place the salad into your refrigerator.
Step 3: Sald Dressing
Review these tips to help you make this yummy salad dressing.
- Extra virgin olive oil: This is an olive oil dressing base so be sure you use first-pressed olive oil for the best flavor
- Lemon juice: freshly squeezed, not from a bottle
- Honey: This is optional, but even if you add it, the calories are still low
- Ginger: Only use fresh ginger, not dried or candied. Note* If you want a vegan salad dressing substitue the honey for maple syrup.
- Salt: Just a pinch but you can omit if watching your sodium.
- In a small mason jar mix together the olive oil, lemon juice, almond butter, grated ginger, honey and salt. Place a lid on the jar and shake well until the dressing is smooth and creamy.
- Toss the dressing over your salad ingredients and serve.
Optional Add-Ins
This recipe is flexible enough to add in some of your favorite fresh produce or seeds.
- Green oinions: Cut into small pieces
- Red Onions: Diced Small
- Shaved Brussles Sprouts
- For A pit of sweetness, toss in some organic raisins
Will This Salad Help Me Loose Weight?
This salad will help kickstart a new healthy weight loss plan, however you must focus on lower calorie intake, choose non processed whole foods and exercise to lose weight.
This detox salad helps our bodies have better overall health. So have at it, and eat the rainbow!
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Ultimate Detox Diet Salad
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Ingredients
Salad Mix
- 4 cups red cabbage very thinly sliced and loosely packed in the cup
- 4 cups kale thinly sliced kale, no stems and loosely packed in the cup
- 1/4 cup cilantro chopped into small pieces, loosely packed. *hint I like to bunch my cilantro all together and cut with scissors.
- 1 cup yellow pepper diced into small pieces *Note: you could also add red, orange, and green peppers too if you prefer.
- 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1 cup green apple one medium, remove core and slice thinly or cubed
- 1 orange peel, seeded and diced into small pieces
Salad Dressing
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice only use freshly squeezed, not the kind in a bottle
- 2 tablespoon almond butter room temperature
- 3 tablespoons honey Can substitue with maple syrup
- 1 inch ginger Peeled and finely grated. *only use fresh ginger, not powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
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Instructions
Salad Dressing
- In a small jar that has a lid, mix together the olive oil, lemon juice, almond butter, grated ginger, honey, and salt. Shake until smooth and blended well.6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 4 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 tablespoon almond butter, 3 tablespoons honey, 1 inch ginger, ½ teaspoon salt
Salad Mix
- Dice and cut red cabbage, kale, cilantro, and peppers. Next peel orange and dice into small pieces. Core and dice apple. Remove seeds from the pomegranate fruit.4 cups red cabbage, 4 cups kale, 1/4 cup cilantro, 1 cup yellow pepper, 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds, 1 cup green apple
- In a large bowl mix all the veggies, fruit and seeds. If you are not going to serve it right away, place the salad into your refrigerator.1/4 cup pumpkin seeds, 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
- Shake the dressing then toss the dressing over your salad ingredients and serve.
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Notes
- Remove Stems: Using a sharp knife, trim the large vein of the stem off of the kale leaves. Discard stems.
- Wash: Run leaves under cold water rubbing any dirt off then pat dry with a paper towel.
- Cut Kale: You can use a knife to cut the kale into bite size pieces or pull the leaves apart with your hands.
- Massage Kale: It's important to not skip this step. This helps to break down the tough fibers in the leafy greens physically. Your kale will become softer, a bit sweeter, and easier to digest.
- Place the kale in a large bowl, drizzle with just a little olive oil and sprinkle on a dash of salt. Using clean hands, massage the kale with the oil for 2 minutes or so. Turn and toss as you massage.
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