You DO make friends with salad...

Our favourite yellow man Homer Simpson once gallivanted around Springfield singing 'You don't make friends with salad' ... well sorry buddy do I have news for you! I think perhaps he was referring to a boring garden salad; think your typical iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, carrot and grated cheese - YAWN! Good news, there are salads that are interesting, creative, packed with flavours and lots of vitamins AND may even win you a friend or two..or three? HA!

Now here is one I prepared the other day that easily fit the criteria above.

‘You do make friends with salad’ salad

What do I need?

• Spinach Leaves (4 large handfuls)
• Quinoa (1 cup, rinsed)
• Red Capsicum (1)
• Brown Lentils (1 cup)
• Cannellini Beans (1 cup)
• Chickpeas (1 cup)
• Kidney Beans (1 cup)
• Grape Tomatoes (1 punnet)
• Cucumber (1)
• Carrots (1 grated)
• Pumpkin Seeds (1/2 cup)
• Sunflower Seeds (1/2 cup)
• Red Onion (small handful chopped)
• Firm Tofu (1 small packet)
• Coconut Oil

What do I do?

Firstly boil the Sweet Potato and Quinoa - set aside to cool. Next lightly brown the Tofu on medium heat over a fry pan, with a small amount of coconut oil, don’t worry if you don’t have coconut oil, use a small amount of olive oil. Make sure you have medium heat on the stove though. Chop, dice and slice the remainder of the ingredients and mix it all together in a huge bowl. Add the Quinoa, Sweet Potato and Tofu and bobs your uncle you’re good to go.

This salad is epic, not only is it extremely delicious there are so many textures, and a huge dose of vitamins – that you’re bod will be singing hallelujah and screw you Homer! Right here in this salad you are ingesting a large amount of your vitamins including Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Magnesium, EFA’s, Potassium, Vitamin B, C and E and even Zinc!

Sorry Homer, but I think you could do with a few servings of this!

Enjoy.x

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