Easy Healthy Spinach Salad Recipe

Perfect light green salad for a low fat meal or spring menu

Easy Healthy Spinach Salad Recipe: Fresh & colorful, crisp & crunchy mix of organic baby spinach and arugula, red lettuce, red cabbage, shredded carrot, toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

Salads like this one are perfect in springtime - just what the naturopathic doctor ordered, plus it'll make your taste buds VERY happy!

Total Prep Time: 15 minutes

Yield: 6 Servings

Nutrition Data Per Serving, 79g: 73 cal, fat 42, 5g fat, 5g carb, 39mg sodium, 2g fiber, 3g protein, 1g sugars, low cholesterol, high in Vit. A, C, K, B6, Folate, Iron, Potassium, Phosphorous, Copper, Magnesium, Manganese. Estimated glycemic load 1

Spinach Salad Ingredients:

• 6 cups organic washed baby spinach
• 2 cups organic washed baby arugula
• 2 cups organic torn-up red leaf lettuce
• 1 cup shredded red cabbage
• 1/2 cup shredded carrot
• 6 Tbsp (1 oz) toasted unsalted sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds
• creamy cauliflower salad dressing or other low fat dressing

Salad Directions:

1. Wash and drain the salad greens
2. Place salad greens in a bowl twice the size needed to hold the salad (this will make tossing it easier).
3. Grate the carrot
4. Finely shred the red cabbage
5. Toast the seeds in a small fry pan on medium low heat, stirring occasionally, until golden brown OR toast in the oven for 10 minutes at 325 degrees F.
6. Add the shredded carrot and cabbage to the greens, and toss lightly
7. Serve with toasted seeds and low fat dressing on the side, to add at the table

Recipe Tips:

If you can get them, you'll experience maximum taste and nutrition if you use organic ingredients for this salad recipe.

Low fat Creamy Cauliflower Dressing is perfect with Spinach Salad. Have as much as you like - it's mostly cauliflower and lemon juice, although you'd never know from tasting it!

Light and perky, Fresh Dill Sauce is also lovely with spinach salad.

Healthy Holidays: Enjoy spinach salad with a light & healthy, but festive & bountiful meal of barley bean vegetable soup, toasted French bread with low fat spicy bean dip, a relish tray, assorted herbal teas, and poached pears for dessert.