Strawberry Summer Salad
Who doesn’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 it’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. It’s not the food itself that’s to be blamed, it’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 you’re prone to bloating high FODMAP or raw foods may not be ideal for you. It’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 I’m here for it. Classic me, I don’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. I’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 that’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, it’s purple) cabbage, well chopped
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