Salad Bowl with Skinny Miso Dressing Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: None Total time: 10 minutes Serves: Vibrant salad bowl with a low-fat miso sesame dressing. Ingredients Ingredients for Power Lunch Salad Bowl 1 1/2 cup baby spinach 1 1/2 cup arugula 1/3 cup chickpeas 1/3 cup roasted butternut squash 1/3 cup plum tomatoes…
Salad Greens with Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Tempeh Sticks, and Balsamic-BBQ Dressing
Salad Greens with Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Tempeh Sticks, and Balsamic-BBQ Dressing Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: Textures collide in this vitamin-packed salad with a mix of salad greens, roasted sweet potatoes, crisp raw golden beets, seared tempeh sticks and a barbecue sauce dressing. Ingredients 3 – 4 small sweet potatoes, peeled and diced…
Curried Apple, Carrot and Pecan Slaw
Curried Apple, Carrot and Pecan Slaw Prep time: Cook time: Total time: 20 minutes Serves: 4 servings Part of last week’s cabbage was used for this Apple, Carrot, and Pecan Slaw with a light dressing seasoned with a curry spice blend. It has just a few ingredients and comes together in less than 20 minutes….
Pad Thai Salad
Pad Thai Salad Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: Total time: 10 mins Serves: 2 servings A salad version of the famous Pad Thai dish. Ingredients Salad: 1 cup cabbage, shredded 4-5 large leaves of swiss chard, sliced/chiffonade ½ yellow pepper, sliced thin ½ cup bean sprouts ¼ cup chopped cilantro ¼ cup chopped cashews…
Sweet Potato Salad
Sweet Potato Salad Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes Total time: 20 minutes Serves: This sweet potato salad is surprisingly delicious! It tastes just like the potato salad you get from the deli, but without the bad-for-you ingredients. No mayonnaise, and the sweet potatoes are perfect. Ingredients 6 cups sweet potatoes, peeled, cut…
Tomato, Eggplant, and Chickpea Ragout
Tomato, Eggplant, and Chickpea Ragout Prep time: Cook time: Total time: less than 30 minutes Serves: 2 servings So this dish is super easy (like usual) and is a nice take on dinner. It’s warm like a soup or stew, but can be eaten on its own or with a grain. Feel free to adjust…
Sesame Zucchini Noodles with Edamame, Broccoli, and Carrots
Sesame Zucchini Noodles with Edamame, Broccoli, and Carrots Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: 2 servings This dish originally started out with plans to use a spaghetti squash, but apparently people really like spaghetti squash – Whole Foods was sold out. Since improvising can be fun, we decided to make zucchini noodles instead of…
Sweet Potato, Hemp Seed & Quinoa Bowls
Sweet Potato, Hemp Seed & Quinoa Bowls Prep time: 10 Cook time: 30 Total time: 40 Serves: 4 Packed with healthy protein from quinoa, hemp seeds, and black beans then flavored with roasted sweet potatoes and a cilantro-lime dressing. {vegan & gluten-free} Ingredients 1 cup uncooked quinoa 2 small sweet potatoes 1 (15 ounce) can…
Mango, Avocado, & Black Bean Salsa
Mango, Avocado, & Black Bean Salsa Prep time: Cook time: Total time: less than 30 minutes Serves: I wanted to make some form of black bean salsa for the Super Bowl on Sunday. While walking through the grocery store I noticed Mangos were on sale and seemed to be perfectly ripe, so I decided to…
Roasted Delicata Squash & Wheat Berry Salad with Feta
Roasted Delicata Squash & Wheat Berry Salad with Feta Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 1 hour Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes Serves: 4 Hearty wheat berry salad with roasted delicate squash, scallions, and tangy feta, dressed with lemon-honey vinaigrette: this salad is good served warm, cold, or at room temperature and will keep…
Grapefruit and Sriracha Vinaigrette Rice Noodles
Grapefruit and Sriracha Vinaigrette Rice Noodles Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: This dish is so good – packed with flavor, quick to make, and filling enough to eat as a main course. When I prepared this, I cut down on the grapefruit juice included in the vinaigrette, and recommend doing the same unless…
Fig Balsamic Glazed Sweet Potatoes and Onions
Fig Balsamic Glazed Sweet Potatoes and Onions Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: 1 serving I decided to use my fig balsamic vinegar on some sweet potatoes and onions. The sweetness of the potato and the vinegar balances well with the onion. Feel free to add some protein to this salad to make it…