Fresh Summer Salad

If you’ve been sitting around the pool craving a fresh summer salad, look no further! Easy to make, this recipe will easily satisfy everybody’s taste.

I remember when I was still living in the South of France, these long Summer days where all I wanted to eat was fruits and salads. I guess I was looking for something to refresh my sun-bathed body and my soul.

This is when I encounter this delicious recipe. Oranges, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes and walnuts. Music to my ears. It has a crunchy, sweet and tart taste as soon as it hits your taste buds. Just perfect.

I guess you now get that I absolutely love this salad. It’s pretty obvious when I’m re-reading what I just wrote above!

Here is the cherry on the cake: oranges are very good allies of your pregnancy and postpartum life. They are high in:

  • Folate, an essential nutrient for your pregnancy but also during postpartum, especially if you breastfeed
  • Vitamin C that is also needed in greater amount. It also helps with Iron absorption, which could be too low for a lot of women
  • Fibers to ease bowel movements among other benefits

It also helps with tissue repair (super important for my postpartum and breastfeeding Mamas) and hydration.

FRESH SUMMER SALAD

Fresh Summer Salad Ingredients

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 oranges
  • 4 big cherry tomatoes
  • 4 carrots
  • 2-3 cups mixed arugula and baby spinach (or your choice of salad mix)
  • 1/2 teasp cumin
  • 1/2 cup walnuts
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • Salt, pepper

PREP TIME

15 minutes

TIPS

You can switch the walnuts with pine nuts!

Ingredients:

2 oranges
4 carrots
4 big cherry tomatoes
2-3 cups salad mix
1/2 cup walnuts
1/2 teasp cumin
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Salt and Pepper
Leslie Abraham

By Leslie Abraham

Fresh Summer Salad instructions:

First, thoroughly rinse all the veggies under running water. Begin with the carrots. Cut out the leaves and peel them.

In a food processor, use the grater disc. Place the 4 carrots inside and grate them. If you don’t have a food processor, you can use a hand grater. Use one carrot at a time and keep it perpendicular to your grater. Transfer the grated carrot in a bowl. Season with salt, pepper and cumin.

Peel 1 orange. Then try to supreme it (getting rid of the membrane around each wedge). To do this easily, first cut out the peel on top and bottom of the fruit. Then, repeat on the sides of the fruits by following its curve. Take out the white peel too, as much as you can. Then cut each wedge between the white membranes and transfer the segments in a bowl. Cut them in 2 width-wise.

The perfect refreshing meal during a long and hot Summer day!

This fresh summer salad will provide you with nutrients much needed during pregnancy and post-partum.

With the other orange, squeeze it in an orange juice and add it to the carrots. Mix thoroughly.

Discard the stem of the tomatoes and cut them in 4 or 6, depending on their size.

Place the salad mix in a big bowl. Add the tomatoes, the grated carrots, the diced orange and sprinkle with walnuts.

Enjoy your fresh summer salad!

Bon appetit!

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