SUMMERY MEDITERRANEAN SALAD
If you’re looking for a delicious, light, refreshing salad, this is one of my favorites. It packs a ton of flavors, textures, and everything just comes together so great here. I love eating cauliflower like this… skip store-bought and just process it finely into snowflakes like this for a great texture. I also have a low carb tabbouleh inspired recipe like this in my cookbook where I use cauliflower, so check it out if you have my cookbook!
The dressing and feta take this to the top, so I hope you give it a try if you’re looking for a light healthy salad, or a simple healthy dinner. You can top it with chicken or shrimp for a lighter meal.
Here is how I made it:
1. I started with 1/2 a small cauliflower that I turned into snowflakes in the food processor. Just separate the florets and toss into a food processor. This is key to make it super fine (you want it to be like snowflakes). Dont skip this, and dont use bagged cauli. Add the processed cauliflower to a bowl.
2.Finely dice or shred 1/2 small purple cabbage. The key here is super fine so you dont have to exert a lot of energy chewing the cabbage, otherwise, it won’t work. Add it to a bowl.
3. Finely dice 3 persian or Japanese cucumbers and add them to the bowl with a large bunch of fresh flat parsley super finely chopped, and a large cubed up avocado.
4.To take this to the top, I added 1/3 cup toasted walnuts (pistachios or pine nuts work great, too!), and crumble up about 2oz of fresh feta over everything.
5. Finally, for the dressing, shake together 1/4 cup of a GREAT olive oil, zest & juice of 1 large lemon, 1 tbsp dijon mustard, 1 tsp aleppo pepper or chili flakes, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp garlic powder, a couple pinches sea salt, fresh ground pepper.
6.Pour dressing over salad, toss well, taste, and modify however way you want.
If you make it, be sure to let me know what you think on SHREDHAPPENS!
This is a great way to enjoy a healthy salad with lots of Mediterranean flavors. ENJOY!
If you want a ridiculously good salad, this is how you can make a simple, summery Mediterranean salad that’s so refreshing, so easy, and so good. We’re going to start by pulsing cauliflower into what I like to call snowflakes. This is my favorite way to eat cauliflower. The texture is just spot-on. Finally, chop some purple red cabbage. Dice up some Persian cucumbers. Make sure to go super fine here. Add lots and lots of fresh flat parsley. Top it with a beautiful avocado, some toasted walnuts, and dress it up with a simple but delicious garlicky lemon herb dressing. Full recipes in the caption. Check it out.
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SUMMERY MEDITERRANEAN SALAD
If you’re looking for a delicious, light, refreshing salad, this is one of my favorites. It packs a ton of flavors, textures, and everything just comes together so great here. I love eating cauliflower like this… skip store-bought and just process it finely into snowflakes like this for a great texture. I also have a low carb tabbouleh inspired recipe like this in my cookbook where I use cauliflower, so check it out if you have my cookbook!
The dressing and feta take this to the top, so I hope you give it a try if you’re looking for a light healthy salad, or a simple healthy dinner. You can top it with chicken or shrimp for a lighter meal.
Here is how I made it:
1. I started with 1/2 a small cauliflower that I turned into snowflakes in the food processor. Just separate the florets and toss into a food processor. This is key to make it super fine (you want it to be like snowflakes). Dont skip this, and dont use bagged cauli. Add the processed cauliflower to a bowl.
2.Finely dice or shred 1/2 small purple cabbage. The key here is super fine so you dont have to exert a lot of energy chewing the cabbage, otherwise, it won’t work. Add it to a bowl.
3. Finely dice 3 persian or Japanese cucumbers and add them to the bowl with a large bunch of fresh flat parsley super finely chopped, and a large cubed up avocado.
4.To take this to the top, I added 1/3 cup toasted walnuts (pistachios or pine nuts work great, too!), and crumble up about 2oz of fresh feta over everything.
5. Finally, for the dressing, shake together 1/4 cup of a GREAT olive oil, zest & juice of 1 large lemon, 1 tbsp dijon mustard, 1 tsp aleppo pepper or chili flakes, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp garlic powder, a couple pinches sea salt, fresh ground pepper.
6.Pour dressing over salad, toss well, taste, and modify however way you want.
If you make it, be sure to let me know what you think on SHREDHAPPENS!
This is a great way to enjoy a healthy salad with lots of Mediterranean flavors. ENJOY!
Never eat raw cauliflower if you have a thyroid disease. Cook it well first
So delicious and fresh 🙂
Yummy!
❤AMAZING ❤
I would add some high quality albacore tuna and some red onion.
What a Treat
What brand is your cutting board?
As I have gotten older I found that I can burn water. Used to love to cook. But today I have more calamities in the kitchen than activity in a roller skating rink. I don't want to be rich….but to have enough to hire a chef would be heavenly.
It was okay. Hope I can digest all the raw veggies well.
Delish!!!
Delicious and Nutritious ❤
This looks delicious. Since I started eating Mediterranean diet, I’ve lost 10 pounds in the last two weeks I do believe a lot of that was water retention as well but, what a tasty way to go.