Rainbow Salad

Building a rainbow salad is all about including a variety of colourful ingredients to make it nutrient-packed and delicious. Here’s how to create your perfect rainbow salad.

1. Choose your green base: Start with a mix of greens. You can use spinach, kale, rocket, or any greens you like as the foundation for your salad.

2. Add your reds and oranges: Incorporate colourful veggies like capsicums, carrots, or tomatoes.

3. Include some yellows: Sweet corn or yellow capsicum add a vibrant yellow tone.

4. Bring in the greens: You’ve already chosen your base, but you can add other green veggies like cucumber, zucchini, or avocado.

5. Pile on the blues and purples: Red cabbage, purple onion, or even blueberries will add pops of blue and purple to your salad.

6. Top it off with extras: Add seeds, nuts, cheese, or a protein like grilled chicken, tofu, or chickpeas.

7. Dress it up: Make your own dressing with olive oil, vinegar, lemon, mustard and herbs

You will need:

• Base:

  • 2 cups mixed greens (spinach, rocket, etc.)

• Red/Orange Veggies:

  • ½ cup cherry tomatoes, halved

  • 1 small red caosicum, sliced

  • 1 medium carrot, grated

• Yellow Veggies:

  • ½ cup corn kernels (fresh, frozen, or canned)

• Green Veggies:

  • 1 small cucumber, sliced

  • 1 avocado, sliced

• Blue/Purple Veggies:

  • ½ cup shredded red cabbage

  • ¼ cup purple onion, thinly sliced

• Extras:

  • ¼ cup sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds

  • ¼ cup crumbled feta cheese (optional)

  • ½ cup cooked chickpeas (optional)

• Dressing:

  • 2 tbsp olive oil

  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

  • 1 tsp dijon mustard

  • 1tsp apple cider vinegar

  • Salt and pepper to taste

How to make:

1. Prepare the base: Start by placing the mixed greens in a large bowl.

2. Add the colourful veggies: Layer the cherry tomatoes, capsicum, grated carrot, corn, cucumber, avocado, red cabbage, and purple onion on top of the greens.

3. Top it off: Sprinkle with sunflower seeds, crumbled feta, and chickpeas if using.

4. Make the dressing: In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar, dijon mustard, salt, and pepper.

5. Dress and toss: Drizzle the dressing over the salad and toss gently to combine.

6. Serve and enjoy: Serve immediately or store in an airtight container in the fridge for a few hours.