This post is in collaboration with Foodin. I’m so excited, another recipe using Foodin’s amazing products. As you might know already, Foodin is one of my absolute favorite brands and their organic superfoods are products I genuinely use every day, collab or not. This time I’ve made a nutrient-packed salad with tahini sauce using many of my go-to products by Foodin and it’s turned out so amazing, the perfect dinner or lunch.
Salad does not have to be boring
I am so tired of hearing that salad is diet food and salad is so boring. Salad tastes like nothing and salad is rabbit food. No, you could not be more wrong, or you’ve had terrible salad experiences so far in your life. I eat a salad almost every day, either for lunch or dinner. It’s so easy to make and prepare, it’s delicious, fulfilling, and nutrient-packed. You need to include different components, flavors, and textures. On top of my salad base, I always try to add something creamy, something sweet, something crunchy, some protein, and some sauce and it never fails.
Be bold with using spices
This nutrient-packed salad with tahini sauce has a lot of flavors, not only are the sweet potatoes bathing in several healthy spices, but the tahini sauce is also very flavorful and the perfect balance to the rest of the ingredients. I always use a lot of spices when I cook. I have a very well equipped spice cabinet at home and I think it’s the secret to making everything taste delicious. You can use really simple ingredients and with the proper flavor, you can turn anything into magic.
Don’t be scared to use many spices and try different combinations. A rule of thumb, that works 90% of the time, is to always pair red spices with each other and green spices with each other and you will most likely not go wrong. Yellow spices can mostly be paired with both, but tend to be a better match with the red spices. There are of course some exceptions here, but as a general rule, I think it works pretty well.
Clean spices also tend to be packed with nutrition, so adding spices to your cooking is actually healthy. Watch out for ready-blended spice mixes that tend to have added sugar, not something you want in your spice mix. I absolutely love Foodin’s organic spices, they contain no added sugar and they come in generous packages so they will last a long time.
Here comes the recipe for this delicious salad.
Hope you like it,
Michelle
Nutrient-packed salad with tahini sauce
- October 31, 2020
- 2
- 45 min
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Ingredients
- Salad
- 1 pack green kale
- 2 handfuls of baby spinach
- 1 avocado
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 dl feta cheese
- 1 dl almonds
- 1 spring onion
- 1 tbsp Foodin olive oil
- 1/2 tsp Foodin cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Foodin cumin
- 1/2 tsp Foodin turmeric
- 1/2 tsp paprika powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- Salt & pepper
- Tahini Sauce
- 4 tbsp Foodin olive oil
- 2 tbsp Foodin apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp Foodin lemon juice
- 2 tbsp Foodin light tahini
- Salt & Pepper
Directions
- Step 1
- Heat the oven to 200°C.
- Step 2
- Wash the sweet potato and chop into small cubes, leave the skin on, that’s where all the vitamins are. Season with olive oil and cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, paprika powder, garlic powder salt, and pepper. Bake in the oven until tender, for about 30 minutes.
- Step 3
- Cut the kale into smaller pieces, massage with some olive oil and sprinkle with salt, and bake in the oven for about 5-10 minutes, you can add it on top of the sweet potatoes. Watch it carefully so it does not burn.
- Step 4
- Meanwhile, toast the almonds in a dry pan with some salt. When they are ready, add a tsp of olive oil and remove from heat.
- Step 5
- For the sauce, mix all the ingredients either with a hand whisk or in a blender if you wish. Ready.
- Step 6
- Assemble your salad starting with spinach and kale, top with sweet potato, and add the feta cheese, almonds, spring onion, and avocado.
- Step 7
- Drizzle the sauce on top and enjoy this nutrient-packed salad.
