My favourite things in the kitchen right now are salad bowls. Fresh beautiful local produce, a source of protein, a delicious dressing and an optional grain or noodle makes a wonderful meal. Healthy, filling, beautiful and uses up odds and ends in the fridge.
You can mix and match depending what you have in the house but I would recommend adding some leafy greens, something with some crunch, something a little bit sweet, refreshing or salty, at least one protein and fill it up with anything else you love.
Crunchy options:
- nuts or seeds
- green onions
- sugar snap peas
- Kale chips
- crumbled nacho chips
- red peppers
Sweet, refreshing or salty options:
- berries
- dried raisins/cranberries
- fresh peas
- orange slices
- grapefruit segments
- candies or salted nuts
- corn
- baby tomatoes
- spiralized and grated beet or carrot
Grain (or grain alternative) options:
- rice noodles
- brown rice
- quinoa
- bean thread noodles/glass noodles
- kelp noodles
- buckwheat
- oat groats
Protein options:
- chicken
- turkey
- pork
- beef
- beans
- fish
- seeds and nuts
- lentils
- tofu
Sauce options:
Recently I made a delicious salad bowl with quinoa, black beans, basil lime dressing, leftover chicken, leftover red cabbage, kale chips, sugar snap peas, red peppers, green onions and a dollop of fresh pesto. It was a perfect meal and and a fun game for my six year old to count how many different veggies were present in the meal 🙂
