Not Your Usual Salads
From Dr. Fuhrman’s book Disease-Proof Your Child:
Green Banana Power Blended Salad
Pecan Maple Salad
Green Banana Power Blended Salad
2-3 ounces washed baby spinachBlend well into a smooth pudding-like consistency in the food processor, Vita-Mix, or a powerful blender by shoving the lettuce down into the blades with a cucumber or carrot used as a plunging tool. Blending raw greens until smooth greatly increase the absorption of nutrients from out digestive tract, delivering a powerful nutrient punch. Serves 2.
3-4 ounces washed romaine lettuce
1 banana
½ avocado
5 medjool dates
1 tablespoon black fig vinegar (optional)
Pecan Maple Salad
½ cup chopped pecansMix in blender half the chopped pecans with the other ingredients. Then when creamy take out of the blender and add the rest of the pecans so the dressing remains lumpy, with some crunch. Pour over baby romaine lettuce or spinach for that soft but crunchy salad. It is also good with chunks of pear mixed in. Serves 4-6.
½ cup regular (original) soy milk
1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
2 medjool dates
2 tablespoons of pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons spicy pecan vinegar (optional)
These salads sound great, I like how you take into account the "mouthfeel" factor for the "Pecan Maple Salad"!!!
Elijah
from Dr. Fuhrman's Member Center
I love the green banana salad and now eat this for lunch on a regular basis. I'm not a big fan of sweets, so I cut down on the number of dates (3) and added some arugula in addition to the spinach.
When I am done with the with the carrot-plunger, I usually just drop it into the salad for some extra beta carotene.
Do you loose any nutrients by blending
salads.I have been blending spinich.