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Weight LossSunflower Cream Salad with Sweet Taters + Dill Chicks
May 13, 2011 By
Leanne Vogel
July 18, 2015
Happy Friday 13th! Good things always happen to me on Friday 13th, so I’m pretty excited to see what flourishes today!
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There are a couple of requirements that a salad needs to have in order for me to want to eat it:- a good [homemade] salad dressing.
- lots of spices and flavor.
- a vast array of different veggies.
- chewy toppings.
- starchy toppings.
- lotsa toppings.
Some of my favorite toppings as of late have been crackers, bison, smashed/shelled flax seed, avocado, roasted veggies, basil leaves, and flax oil.
I really believe that the best approach to eating clean and staying healthy is loving what you eat. A pile of iceberg + Italian dressing just doesn’t do it for me. I need pizzaz!
And this salad didn’t disappoint.
- ⅔ cup sunflower seeds
- ⅓ cup grapefruit juice *see note
- ⅓ cup lemon juice
- ½ cup filtered water
- ¼ cup flax seed oil
- 3 cloves garlic, sauteed
- 2 teaspoon dried dill
- ¼ teaspoon himalayan rock salt
- ⅛ teaspoon white powdered stevia
- 2 yams, diced – do not peel!
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin coconut oil, melted
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- ¼ teaspoon herbamare
- 2 cups chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon dried dill
- ¼ teaspoon herbamare
- Feel free to use any thing here – celery, peppers, whatever you have on hand.
- 8 cups lettuce – I used mixed greens
- 4 carrots, chopped
- 1 English cucumber, chopped
- To make the salad dressing: place sunflower seeds in food processor and blend until smooth. It should take about 4-5 minutes and should be the consistency of nut butter. Alternatively, you can use ½ cup sunflower seed butter! Once it’s a butter like consistency, add the remaining ingredients and pulse until combined. Set aside.
- To make the sweet taters + dill chicks: preheat oven to 375F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Place a foil wall down the middle of the cookie sheet. In 2 separate bowls, mix the ingredients for the sweet taters and dill chicks. Place each mixture on either side of the cookie sheet and cook in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, or until yams are soft. Allow to cool for 30 minutes before using for your salad.
- Putting it all together: Fill a big bowl, or a bunch of little bowls with your desired veg. Top with dill chicks + sweet taters, followed by a generous helping of dressing.
I made the mistake of mixing in the flax oil a bit too early and was then worried about the food processor heating it up too much before everything was done. So, my dressing was still a bit chunky. It was really good like this too! Kind of reminded me of Parmesan cheese!
Why shouldn’t we heat flax oil? Flax is a very unstable oil. When it’s heated or left in the light, it turns rancid [same process as with roasted nuts]. The cooler you can keep it, the less damage to the fats. That’s why you always want to make sure that the flax oil you’re buying is in a refrigerator and a dark container.
Are you a fan of flax oil?
What are your salad requirements?
Most importantly: what are your plans for the weekend?
I need to figure out what color we’re painting the bedroom + bathroom next weekend. It’s such a hard decision. Other than that, we plan to clean out the garage, hang out outside, and make some ice cream.
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Hi! I'm Leanne (RHN FBCS)
a Functional Medicine Practitioner, host of the Healthful Pursuit Podcast, and best-selling author of The Keto Diet & Keto for Women. I want to live in a world where every woman has access to knowledge to better her health.
