Ultimate Superfood Salad with Dulse Seaweed
Dulse Seaweed Flakes 30g Pouch - add to basket
Throw together this "seaweed salad" as a post-workout boost of iron, protein, fibre and minerals.
Serves 2
Time 15 mins
Easy
This superfood-enriched salad made with Dulse seaweed is ideal as a filling low-calorie lunch or as a side to meat and fish dishes. The delicious seed topping can also be stored in a tightly sealed jar for adding to roast veg or rice dishes.
This salad includes Britain’s original bean, the broad bean, grown here since the Iron Age; delicious, nutritious and good for the soil. As well as quinoa to add some nutty carbs and some steamed broccoli. According to Alison Hornby, a dietitian and British Dietician Association spokesperson,
"Broccoli contains many nutrients, such as folate, soluble and insoluble fibre, vitamins C and A, and calcium, which are needed for numerous functions in the body... And it contains compounds that are linked to improving the body's ability to impede the growth of cancer cells."
All this is sprinkled with some Dulse, a fantastic natural source of iodine which helps your thyroid function. Your thyroid regulates your metabolism as well as heart and digestive function, muscle control, brain development and bone maintenance.
This delicious green salad is jam-packed with different textures, lovely flavours and lots of nutritious ingredients. It will make you feel really virtuously good but will also leave you feeling replenished and satisfied. Perfect for this spring weather.
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INGREDIENTS
- Mixed Salad Leaves
- Watercress
- Long Stem Broccoli
- Broad Beans
- 200g Quinoa
- Sprouting Mung Beans
- Alfalfa Seeds
For the dressing
- 1 tbsp Dulse
- Sesame oil
- Olive oil
- White wine vinegar
- Juice of 1/2 an orange
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- Tiny pinch of salt and pepper
For the seed topping
- 1 tbsp Dulse
- 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 2 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 2 tbsp linseeds
- 1 tbsp black sesame seeds
- Splash of soya sauce
METHOD
- Cook the quinoa to packet instructions, then set aside to cool.
- Steam and blanch the broad beans and broccoli.
- Make the seed topping by toasting the seeds with the Dulse in a dry frying pan over a medium heat for around 3-4 minutes. When the seeds start to pop, add the soya sauce and stir over the heat until the seeds have soaked it up. Set aside to cool.
- Mix all the ingredients together for the salad dressing with equal parts of the liquids, to taste.
- Wash and spin or pat dry the salad leaves.
- Arrange all the ingredients together, drizzle with salad dressing and sprinkle with toasted seed mix.
