If you are like me and like to enjoy your greens often, making salads is an easy way to accomplish this. For this salad, this time around I incorporated some hulled hemp seeds, which I have been obsessed with lately. I also made a tahini dressing, which I am also obsessed with.

Hulled hemp seeds taste very nutty and you can have them even on their own. I sometimes sprinkle them on my yogurt and granola. They are so good…

Believe or not, hemps seeds are rich in essential fats (Omega 3 & 6), antioxidants, amino acids, fiber, iron, zinc, carotene, phospholipids, phytosterols, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin D, vitamin E, chlorophyll, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, copper, potassium, phosphorus, and enzymes. All in all they are a great ingredient to include to your diet.

If you haven’t tried them before I suggest you do. You can purchase them over at Bob’s Red Mill. They have so many products I love. Definitely one of my favorite places to purchase my health goods.

I also used fresh chopped spinach because that is what I had on hand, however, you can also use kale or any other greens of your choice. The same goes for your salad ingredients. Anything goes so if you don’t like onions or any other ingredients swap them for your own favorite ones.

As far as the tahini, I just recently started using it and to be honest I have no idea why I waited so long. A great ingredient to use for many things not just salad dressing so stay tuned for some other recipes where I used tahini.

I hope you like this fresh spinach salad with tahini dressing. I will be making more healthy, creative salads soon so stay tuned.

Enjoy!

Fresh spinach salad with tahini dressing

Miryam's original recipe

Yield: 4 servings

Total Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 12 oz fresh spinach, chopped
• 3 carrots, julienne
• 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1/3 cup hulled hemp seeds

Dressing 

• 1 cup tahini 
• 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 tbs sesame oil
• 3 tbs soy sauce (Tamari for a vegan version)
• 2 tbs maple syrup
• 1-2 tbsp ginger, chopped

 

Directions:

In a medium mixing bowl add the salad dressing ingredients and with a wire whisk combine until you obtain a homogenous mixture.

In a large salad bowl add the salad ingredients followed by a little bit of the salad dressing. Mix through and serve immediately.

Note: The dressing makes about 8 servings so you will have some leftover. I store my dressing in weck jars or ball jars.

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Lately, I have been wanting to incorporate more goji berries into my diet. After all, these are nutritional powerhouses. If you haven’t try them before this would be the perfect recipe to do so.

I got two huge tahini containers a couple of weeks back as well so mixing them both I thought would make a great base for any salad dressing.

I use sesame seeds on a regular basis but Tahini, well, yesterday was my first time using it and I was in love. This salad dressing is going to be one of my regular to go salad recipes. I am so obsess with it.

Do you have a salad dressing that you love? It is so easy to make your own salad dressings. This one take an extra minute or two but literally you can have the best tasting salad dressing in under 5 minutes.

If you are like me and love veggies, you will love this bulgur bean salad with goji tahini dressing. If you must have a gluten free version you can use quinoa instead and if you want a vegan version you can use maple syrup for the dressing.

As far as the legumes and veggies, you can really any of your choice. Salads are very versatile very versatile so anything goes really.

Enjoy!

Bulgur bean salad with goji tahini dressing

Miryam's original recipe

Yield: 4 servings

Total Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup dried bulgur, uncooked
• 1 lb cooked beans, any type would do
• 5 oz green salad mix
• 5 oz grated carrots
• 8 oz cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 tbs sesame seeds

Dressing

• 1/3 cup dried goji berries
• 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 3 tbsp tahini
• Big chunk fresh ginger, peeled
• 3 tsp honey, or maple syrup
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 tsp crushed black pepper
• 1/2 tsp celtic salt

 

Directions:

Cook the bulgur according to package directions.

On the meantime, soak the goji berries in hot water for 5 minutes. Discard the water.

Add all the dressing ingredients to you blender or hand blender and blend until you obtain a homogenous mixture.

Divide salad ingredients between 4 bowls. Divide salad dressing between the four bowls and combine. Serve salad immediately.

NOTE: You may have some salad dressing leftover. The recipe makes a bit more for future salads.

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