Strawberry Summer Salad

Who doesnโ€™t love a leafy green salad with fruit in it? Yes, please! It screams summer, hot sunshine, trips, river dips and quick meals without turning the oven on.

This salad includes radishes, a bitter vegetable that is great for liver love (helping detoxification) and supporting digestive juices for breaking down our foods. I do love digestive bitter tinctures, but eating bitters foods is the best way to go. I always think of many people in Europe starting meals with a bitter salad before the main course.

Sauerkraut is an amazing addition to your meals for itโ€™s fermented benefits, gut health superhero. I support a lot of H. pylori in my private practice so some of my clients do get histamine reactions from the fermented food. Itโ€™s not the food itself thatโ€™s to be blamed, itโ€™s their gut health!

I added hemp seeds for minerals, more protein and healthy fats. Remember, minerals are like sparkplugs to a car. Without sufficient quantities, our gut and hormone health are often not functioning optimally. I see this on hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) testing often. I even did my own and I really had to focus in on mineral rich foods, especially since I have Graves (faster thyroid).

I include raw cabbage and asparagus here and my gut love this. Make sure you chew well and it youโ€™re prone to bloating high FODMAP or raw foods may not be ideal for you. Itโ€™s summer, so I eat a lot more raw food than I would in the cold winter months in Canada.

You can make any variation of this you want, but I love this combo. Eating leafy greens, especially dark ones, is associated with longevity and cognitive health so Iโ€™m here for it. Classic me, I donโ€™t measure guys, so just toss in however much you want. I hate following recipes (yes, I still provide them to clients), but personally I like cooking more intuitively. Iโ€™m so much slower at cooking when I have to read the exact recipe and measure everything. I know everyone is different though!


Ingredients

  • edamame, frozen thatโ€™s been boiled for a couple minutes until hot

  • strawberries,

  • butter lettuce, or any fresh lettuce head, well washed

  • radish, sliced thinly

  • sauerkraut, from a glass jar, refrigerated

  • asparagus, raw, chopped

  • hemp seeds

  • red (but really, itโ€™s purple) cabbage, well chopped

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