If you’ve tried some of my other salad recipes, then you know how good a bunch of greens can taste. Making a side salad with dinner is one of the easiest ways to create a balanced meal, full of fibre, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Forget the pre-made salads sitting at the grocery store in plastic containers with questionable soggy ingredients. Instead, make your salad fresh with items found in your fridge!
I had leftover strawberries in mine from the pancakes I made on the weekend. These paired nicely with the goat cheese purchased during my Sunday grocery shop. As for the greens and pecans, both of these items are kitchen staples – meaning, I always have some sort of leafy green in my fridge (kale, arugula, spinach or mixed greens) and nuts. These four ingredients were everything I needed for a yummy vegetarian dinner salad.
Goat cheese is smooth and creamy with a slightly sweet and sometimes salty undertone. You can find it in any health food store and now even most grocery stores. It is a great choice for cheese because it’s not homogenized (meaning the structure of the fat globule has not been changed) making it more digestible. Most cow’s milk (unless labelled non-homogenized) is always homogenized, otherwise the fat would rise to the top. However, many experts agree that lipase (your fat-digesting enzyme) has greater difficultly digesting fat when milk has been homogenized, making goat’s milk products preferable to cow’s milk for digestibility.
Digestion aside, goat cheese is a favourite of mine because it tastes so darn good. A source of the amino acid tryptophan, plus calcium, phosphorus, potassium and vitamin B2 up the ante on the health benefits of goat milk, most known for it’s bone-building ability. Many parents use goat milk as an alternative for their kids who don’t like cow’s milk or have trouble digesting it.
Strawberry Goat Cheese Pecan Salad
Ingredients:
4 large handfuls of mixed greens (your choice)
6 chopped organic strawberries
1/2 cup soft goat cheese
1/2 cup pecans
Mix all the ingredients together and toss with any one of these three delicious salad dressings.
Serves: 2-3 people
EnJOY!
Joy McCarthy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Health Coach of Joyous Health, loves to inspire others to eat well, live well and be happy.
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