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This Superfood Salad is full of delicious superfoods: greens, beets, sweet potato, avocado, and wild rice. It’s a perfect healthy reset!
Ready for a knock-out salad? This superfood salad is so delicious satisfying enough to eat for dinner, perfect for eating leftovers for lunch.
It’s a colorful bowl of vegetables similar to our nourish bowl, but we love that the dressing is not even measured: a squeeze of lime juice and drizzle of olive oil. We hope you love this superfood salad as much as we do!
Ingredients in this superfood salad
This superfood salad is a favorite because it’s packed with loads of great veggies. We love that it can be eaten at dinner or lunch, which means you can make enough for dinner and have leftovers for lunch the next day! It doesn’t feel like you’re eating a salad; it’s filling and hits the spot where other salads come up short. Here are a few of the star ingredients:
- Raw spinach, cilantro and cucumber are a great combo because they have lots of energizing nutrients and colors, and cucumber is good for hydration. For the greens, you can measure in handfuls because if you are a big person you will have a big handful, a smaller person will have a smaller handful.
- Wild rice is great because it’s a whole grain and makes this superfood salad something that “hits the spot.” It’s lower on the glycemic index than most grains, and it tastes good too.
- Sweet potato and radish are grounding root vegetables packed with a variety of different nutrients.
- Avocado, raw seeds and olive oil provide a good dose of the good fats and protein, which is helpful for keeping energy levels stabilized throughout the day.
Tips for making a superfood salad
This superfood salad recipe takes about 30 minutes to prepare, if the wild rice is already cooked. What’s great about this salad is that you can prep the ingredients in bulk, then whip up this recipe throughout the week in under 10 minutes.
Remember to prepare the wild rice according to package instructions (do this a day or so in advance, if possible). Then roast the diced sweet potato for around 25 minutes, or until tender. Remember: the smaller you dice the potato, the faster it will cook!
While the sweet potato roasts, prepare the rest of the fresh veggies. Once the potatoes are out of the oven, assemble the salad and top with a squeeze of lime juice and a drizzle of olive oil.
More main dish salad recipes
Looking for main dish salad recipes? Aside from this superfood salad bowl, here are a few of our favorites:
Dietary notes
This superfood salad recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free.
Superfood Salad
This Superfood Salad is full of delicious superfoods: greens, beets, sweet potato, avocado, and wild rice. It’s a perfect healthy reset!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 1 1x
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- ½ cup cooked wild rice (prepared in advance)
- 1 large sweet potato
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 raw beet
- 2 radishes
- ¼ cup shredded cucumber
- 1/2 avocado
- 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 1 handful spinach
- 1 handful mixed greens
- 1 lime
- 1 tablespoon pepitas
Instructions
- Prepare the wild rice in advance, according to the package instructions.
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- Dice 1 large sweet potato; place it in a bowl and mix with enough olive oil to coat, a sprinkle of kosher salt, and fresh ground pepper. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the potatoes onto the sheet; roast until tender, about 25 minutes.
- Peel and thinly slice the beet. Thinly slice 2 radishes. Peel and grate ¼ cup cucumber. Slice ½ avocado. Chop 2 tablespoons cilantro.
- To serve, place the salad greens and spinach in a bowl. Arrange small piles of each vegetable and the rice. Drizzle with the juice of 1 lime and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Top with sunflower seeds or pepitas.
Notes
The timing below accounts for the wild rice being made in advance. Wild rice takes about 45 minutes to cook.
Superfoods are still new in Germany (where I live). Thanks for the inspiration!
Gorgeous! Love all the colors…this looks amazing!
So much goodness packed into one little bowl!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
I’m so in love with this salad. Big salad bowls are my life right now. I want them all day, everyday. Thanks for the inspiration!
Seems like an easy and yummy recipe. I’m sure my love will enjoy it. Great job with the site guys!
Wow does this look amazing! You’ve reminded me that I have some pumpkin seeds to toast, and that it’s time to get more creative with my salads :)