Hearty Winter Salad
Hearty winter salad time. What makes a winter salad? To me it’s got apples, or a dense fruit, some hearty lettuce, and perhaps even some sweet potatoes. This salad doesn’t have any potatoes, yet it’s full of nuts and goodness. Let’s get cooking!
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 1 bundle of kale
- 1 head of romaine lettuce
- 1 large cucumber
- 1 large avocado
- 1 large honey crisp apple
- 3 tablespoons of sunflower seeds
- poppyseed dressing
Instructions
- First, wash and dry the kale and romaine lettuce. Then, cut the kale (stems and all) into thin pieces. Chop the romaine a little larger, into about 1 inch pieces.
- Next, make the dressing. If you’re going to be eating the salad right away, then coat the kale and romaine in the dressing and lay out nicely on a large serving platter.
- For the cucumber, I like to deseed it – wash and cut out the core like in the broccoli and grape salad. Then dice and add to the salad.
- Next, slice open the avocado into nice fanning pieces – you’ll want about 3-4 sections and lay them out nicely around the edges of the dish.
- Wash and chop up the apple into pieces about the same size as the cucumber. Add to the salad in a sporadic way.
- Lastly, add the seeds. Now, if you’re finding your salad is laying too flat (heavy and weighted down), just use your hands and lift it up a few times, you’ll give it some dimension. Then, eat up!