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SWEET POTATO SALAD

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Baked Sweet Potato Salad

Heeyya! So we have this deliciousness happening here.

It’s a salad. With baked sweet potatoes. And spinach. It’s everything.

What you’ll be getting from it:

• Great flavors

• Healthy & satisfying dish

• 268 mg vitamin C

• 310 mg Calcium

• 8.5 mg Iron

• 7.5 mg vitamin E

• 215 mg Magnesium

• 49520 IU vitamin A

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SWEET POTATO SALAD
 
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Recipe type: Salad, Light
Cuisine: Vegetarian, Vegan
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 150 g sweet potato, baked
  • 150 g baby spinach, rinsed
  • 100 g peppers (bell pepper, kapia)
  • 100 g broccoli, steamed
  • 1 tbsp red onion, chopped
  • 1 tsp black cumin seeds
  • 1-2 tsp sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ peperoncino flakes, optional
  • Sriracha, optional
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees F/ 180 degreen C.
  2. Cut sweet potato into dice sized cubes. In a bowl, mix sweet potatoes with olive oil, peperoncino flakes, and season with salt and pepper.
  3. Bake for 10-15 minutes, toss, and bake for another 10-15 minutes, or until golden.
  4. Steam broccoli and set aside.
  5. Toast sesame seeds on dry pan for 2 minutes.
  6. Cut peppers and onion.
  7. Mix baby spinach, peppers, broccoli, sweet potatoes, red onion, black cumin seeds, sesame seeds. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve with Sriracha or preferred dressing.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 398 Fat: 27 g Carbohydrates: 54 g Sugar: 23 g Sodium: 562 mg Fiber: 15 g Protein: 12 g Cholesterol: 0 mg

GRILLED EGGPLANT SALAD WITH WALNUTS & POMEGRANATE

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Grilled Eggplant Salad with Walnuts and Pomegranate

 

Heyaaa! So what better way to use pomegranate than to mix it with walnuts and turn it into a salad, right?

It’s an easy, fast, colorful salad recipe with tons of flavors and packed with nutrients. You’ll be gettin’ 24 grams of fiber, 32 mg of vitamin C, 117 mg of Calcium, 136 mg Magnesium, 2.8 mg of vitamin E, and 1114 IU of vitamin A.

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GRILLED EGGPLANT SALAD WITH WALNUTS & POMEGRANATE
 
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Recipe type: Salad, Easy
Cuisine: Vegan, Vegetarian, Light
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 200 gr iceberg lettuce or other leafy greens (baby spinach, red leaf, romaine)
  • 1 small eggplant, sliced
  • 25-30 gr walnuts (5-7 walnuts), optionally toasted
  • ⅓ pomegranate
  • 1 tsp dried basil
  • 1 tsp sweet paprika
  • 1 tsp garlic powder, optional
  • ½ tsp chili flakes, optional
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
  1. Slice eggplant, 2 cm/slice.
  2. Mix eggplant slices with olive oil and basil, paprika, garlic powder, and chili flakes, optional.
  3. Grill eggplant slices on medium heat for 2-3 minutes on each side or until they're golden.
  4. Wash lettuce and chop it roughly. Place it into a bowl. Add walnuts (optionally toasted on dry pan for 4 mins), pomegranate seeds, and eggplant sliced.
  5. Optionally, add dressing of your liking.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 430 Fat: 19 g Saturated fat: 1.9 g Unsaturated fat: 17 g Carbohydrates: 64 g Sodium: 34 g Fiber: 24 g Protein: 14 g Cholesterol: 0 g

 

 

CURLY PARSLEY AND EGG SALAD WITH GOLDEN SESAME

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Fast, fast, fast. This is fast. And incredibly delicious if you’re into parsley. What’s up with people who hate parsley? Give parsley some credit. Parsley – good friend. Parsley – 138 mg of calcium/100 grams. Parsley – 133 mg of vitamin C/100 grams. Parsley – 1.07 mg of zinc/100 grams. See? Parsley – friend. Stop hating on Parsley. Go team Parsley!

Alex

Curly Parsley and Egg Salad with Golden Sesame

Go Team Parsley!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings: 1
Course: Light, Salad
Calories: 229
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • • 1 Tomato
  • • 3 handfuls of parsley
  • • 2-3 tsp raw sesame
  • • 1 tbsp diced onion
  • • 2 hard boiled eggs
  • • Lemon juice to taste

Method
 

  1. Start by adding water to a small kettle and boil 2 eggs.
  2. Wash the parsley and just use your hands to pick the leafs and set them into a bowl.
  3. Finely dice the tomato and onion and add them with the parsley.
  4. In a dry pan, add 2-3 tbsp of sesame and stir it until golden, 2-4 minutes.
  5. Add sesame to salad, as well as the lemon juice. Finally, add the hard boiled eggs to the salad, a tbsp of olive oil, and woah! Magic!