Chicory Salad with Blueberry Dressing

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Vegan
Gluten-Free
Soy-Free

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This 15-minute salad is a fantastic way to jazz up your lunch box and get a boost of antioxidants too. We made a tasty combo of chicory, avocado and spinach, all topped with chia blueberry dressing.

Red Chicory Salad with Blueberry Dressing

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Time 15m

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Introduction

If you're stuck with the same boring lettuce salad, it's time to jazz up your lunch box and give our colourful chicory salad a try.

We made a delightful combo of buttery avocado, crunchy red chicory, sweet spinach and tender lentils. And if it couldn't get tastier than this, we added a juicy chia blueberry dressing. 

We love preparing salads as they're a quick and practical way to pack a complete meal in our lunch box. So, we designed this recipe to include as many nutritious ingredients as we could. The result is a well-balanced, vegan salad bursting with antioxidants, plant-based proteins, and fibres. Plus, it's got health-boosting superfoods to boot.

Red chicory, AKA radicchio, is a bittersweet leafy veggie loaded with free radical-fighting antioxidants and a whopping 170% RDI of vitamin K per serving [1]. Avocado provides healthy unsaturated fats, while spinach pack calcium and iron [2].

Our sweet and sour blueberry dressing is made with fresh berries, chia seeds and lime juice. It's just perfect for drizzling, and it brings this lovely salad to a whole new level of goodness.

Ready in just 15 minutes and with less than 350 calories, this healthy, diet-friendly salad is sure to become your new meal-prepping favourite and keep you full and satisfied for long.

Ingredients

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  • Red Chicory
    170 g
  • Avocado
    0.5
  • Canned Brown Lentils
    300 g
  • Baby Spinach
    120 g
  • Fresh Blueberries
    160 g
  • Chia Seeds
    2 tsp
  • Lime
    1
  • Walnuts
    20 g

Allergens are marked in bold

Recipe Instructions

step 1

To prepare the chicory, trim the stem of the chicory head and let the leaves fall apart. Alternatively, cut it into quarters and then chop them into bite-sized pieces.

Then, peel and core the avocado and slice it into wedges. Drain and rinse the canned lentils.

Now, add the chicory, avocado, lentils, and baby spinach leaves to a bowl.

step 2

Add 80 g of blueberries to a food processor followed by lime juice and chia seeds.

Blitz the ingredients into a smooth and runny dressing.

step 3

Next, finely chop the walnuts and add them to the bowl along with the remaining 80 g of blueberries.

Finally, pour the chia blueberry sauce over the salad, season with salt and pepper, and toss well.

Tips

You can swap chicory with red cabbage, and spinach with rocket.