Kale Quinoa Salad Bowl with Mandarins

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Candy, colourful mandarins sparkle in opposition to a cover of deep inexperienced kale foliage on this Kale Quinoa Salad Bowl with Mandarins. This recipe is flexible sufficient to function a meal prep, one-dish meal, or simple side-dish. Plus it’s a 100% plant-based (vegan), gluten-free salad bowl, making it superb for all diets.

I like this recipe, as a result of it’s the good technique to have fun cool climate produce, together with kale and mandarins. Tossed with cooked quinoa and an orange cumin French dressing, it’s a filling, healthful dish that’s actually scrumptious, too. Plus, this simple 10-minute salad boasts star vitamin energy. It’s wealthy in plant proteins, gut-healthy fiber, wholesome fat, nutritional vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals with antioxidant and anti inflammatory properties. It’s one among our household’s favourite recipes, particularly when I’ve each kale rising in my veggie backyard (tremendous simple to develop), and citrus fruit on my tree. In reality, each of those substances featured right here got here from my dwelling backyard.

Get pleasure from it as a bowl meal to create a nutritionally balanced, satisfying salad that may take you all the best way to dinner and again. Or it’s also possible to serve it in a big bowl as a aspect salad to accompany your meal. You possibly can serve it heat or chilled, relying in your choice. Strive packing up this bowl for lunch at work, or meal prepping it for a couple of meals throughout the week. Considered one of my favourite methods to take pleasure in this recipe is because the spotlight of a easy, rustic dinner. Simply pair it with a heat, satisfying soup, comparable to this Basic Tomato Soup, and a slice of crusty entire grain bread, and also you’ll end up well-nourished. With solely 9 substances (not together with pantry staples), you possibly can combine up this recipe in beneath 10 minutes!

Watch me make this recipe on Instagram right here.

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This yummy, hearty, and vegan Kale Quinoa Salad Bowl with Mandarins celebrates seasonal produce—making a filling, healthful hearty salad that’s like a meal in a bowl.

Make French dressing by whisking collectively orange juice, olive oil, cumin, turmeric, crimson chili flakes, and cilantro collectively in a small dish. Could season with a pinch of salt, if desired.
Place kale in a giant mixing bowl.
Toss dressing into kale with tongs, fastidiously distributing and coating leaves.
Combine in cooked quinoa, mandarins, and sunflower seeds.
Divide into 4 giant entree-sized salad bowls. Serve instantly.