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Garden Harvest Salad

Built around mixed leaves and carrot -- the method starts by wash.

Garden Harvest Salad
Prep
20 min
Cook
5 min
Total
25 min
Serves
2
Level
Easy
Rating
★ 4.6

Crisp, colorful, and bright with lemon -- the salad you actually crave. Here it's built on mixed leaves, carrot and shredded red cabbage -- a easy, salad recipe that starts by wash, and is ready in roughly 25 minutes.

Ready in 25 minutes -- genuinely doable on a weeknight.

An easy, forgiving method -- hard to get wrong on a first try.

Built around mixed leaves, so the flavor comes from real ingredients, not a spice packet.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups mixed leaves
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 1 cup shredded red cabbage
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes
  • 1/2 cucumber, sliced
  • 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp honey, salt and pepper

Nutrition (estimated, per serving)

273
Calories
3.4g
Protein
21g
Fat
17.6g
Carbs
6.2g
Fiber
50mg
Sodium

Calculated from this recipe's own ingredient list; treat as an estimate, not a lab measurement.

Method

1

Wash and dry all the vegetables well.

2

Layer the leaves in a large bowl and add the grated carrot, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumber for color and crunch.

3

Whisk the olive oil, vinegar, honey, salt, and pepper into a dressing.

4

Drizzle over and toss gently until everything is lightly coated.

5

Scatter over the sunflower seeds.

6

Serve immediately while crisp.

Tips from the test kitchen

The step worth not rushing: Layer the leaves in a large bowl and add the grated carrot, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumber for color and crunch.