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The beauty of simple salads

The beauty of simple salads

By: Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes shares her favourite simple salads.


Servings

2

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • ⅓ cup sunflower seeds
  • ⅓ cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
  • ⅓ cup sesame seeds
  • 2 cups mixed salad leaves
  • 1 avocado, peeled, stone removed & cubed
  • 2 tomatoes, julienned
  • 1 cup snow peas, sliced on diagonal
  • Black pepper

  • Cashew Nut Mayo
  • ¼ cup cashew nuts
  • 2 tsp apple-cider vinegar
  • Pinch sea salt
  • ¼ shallot (spring onion), finely diced
  • 3 drops stevia liquid
  • 4 tbsp filtered water

Method


  • Dry toast the seeds in a frying pan over medium heat until brown. Remove and set aside to cool.
  • Place mayo ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth and creamy.
  • Arrange salad ingredients in a bowl, reserving a few of the seeds to scatter on top.
  • Gently stir in the mayo to evenly coat the salad. Add black pepper and reserved seeds, and serve.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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