Spring Cleanse Salad with Spiced Activated Nuts and Mustard Flax Seed Dressing
I've teamed up with 51raw to bring you this spring cleanse salad using their raw, organic spiced activated nuts as a garnish! Simple, basic and reliable. Nourishing, organic wholefood goodness!
1/2cuporganic raw apple cider vinegar with the 'mother'
3tbsporganic/biodynamic extra virgin olive oil
2tsporganic sage
1tsporganic maple syrup
1/2tsporganic ground turmeric
1 1/4cupsfiltered/spring water
1/2tspsea salt
Mustard flax seed dressing
2tbsporganic/biodynamic extra virgin olive oil
1tsphomemade mustardsee above
1tbspground organic flax seed
1tbsporganic raw apple cider vinegar with the 'mother'
2tbspfiltered/spring water
1clovegarlic, finely grated with a Microplane
sea salt and organic black pepper, to taste
Spring Cleanse Salad
1cuporganic seasonal local spring mustard greens mix
1cuporganic flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
1entire large organic English cucumber, diced
1organic red pear, finely sliced
1lborganic white button mushrooms, sliced
2-3organic red radishes, thinly sliced
2tbspfresh organic oregano
1/2freshly squeezed organic lemon
a generous sprinkle of 51raw spiced activated nuts
sea salt and organic black pepper, to taste
Instructions
Make the homemade mustard. In a bowl, soak the mustard seeds with a little filtered water for about 30 minutes. Strain seeds to remove water. In a blender, combine seeds and apple cider vinegar, olive oil, sage, maple syrup, turmeric, and sea salt. Blend to a smooth mustard of even consistency, this can take several minutes. Scrape out the mustard into a glass mason jar with a tight fitting lid, and set aside.
Make the mustard flax seed dressing. In a small bowl, combine the olive oil, mustard, vinegar, flax seed, apple cider vinegar, and water. Grate the garlic into the bowl. Season with sea salt and pepper and whisk to combine. Set aside.
Assemble your salad. In a large bowl, place the spring mustard greens, parsley, cucumber, pear, mushrooms, radishes, oregano, lemon juice, and toss to combine. Season the salad with sea salt and pepper. Sprinkle generous amounts of the 51raw spiced activated nuts on top.
Pour the mustard dressing over the salad, toss, and serve!
Notes
For more 51raw products and useful life tips, visit the 51raw website.
Wooden, uncoated cutlery by 51raw is truly a game changer. Seriously, it makes the food taste way better and more alive. It is also beneficial to eat directly with your hands or with uncoated wooden chopsticks (there are actually digestion-specific meridians in the fingers that are stimulated with the proper use of chopsticks, but that's a story for another time).
This salad is pretty huge, I estimate that it makes about 4 servings, but I recently consumed the whole thing for lunch and dinner!
Store the homemade mustard in a glass mason jar with a tight fitting lid. Keeps FOREVER (at least 6 months, if not more), in the refrigerator. Use in quick dressings!
Mushrooms are one of the only foods where the precursors to vitamin D are found naturally. Vitamin D is vital for metabolic health, longevity and immunity. Please do not forget the sunlight's benefits itself. To have them soak up more vitamin D, place them gills up in the sunlight outside (away from the reach of critters, must be outside for full spectrum benefits). Let them sit for 1-2 hours. You should get a day's worth of vitamin D (about 20 mcg or 800 IU) in about a cup of white button, cremini, or portabello mushrooms.