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    Rainbow Salad with Orange Miso Dressing

    Updated: May 27, 2024 | Published: Nov 8, 2022 | by Amanda | Leave a Comment

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    When your body needs a boost, this rainbow salad with orange miso dressing is nutritious and loaded with digestive supporting ingredients. Best of all, it's delicious and so easy to pull together.

    Love your salads? Try a healthy-ish coleslaw or make it a meal with a kimchi salad with noodles.

    A large bowl of rainbow vegetable salad.

    This recipe was originally post on September 2, 2018 and reposted with ingredient images and profiles, instructions and FAQ's on November 8, 2022.

    Jump to:
    • Why This Recipe Works
    • Why Detox?
    • What is a Detox Salad?
    • Ingredients & Substitutions
    • How to Make a Rainbow Salad
    • Recipe Notes
    • FAQ
    • More Salad Recipes.
    • Make This Recipe
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    Ever wondered what a human shag on a rock might look like? I'll send you a photo. Boy, have the last couple of weeks knocked me around. I have pretty good energy levels, I run most days and generally don't need too much sleep to refuel.

    Recently though, I have felt less like Wonder Woman and more like the limp lasso hanging from her belt.

    Feeling flat when you don't have time to be flat is flat-out, a pain in the butt.

    Why This Recipe Works

    While this rainbow salad is perfect to clean the pipes, so to speak, the combination of crunchy cabbage, carrot, sprouts, radish and almonds balanced with creamy avocado and sweet apple is a vibrant and tasty way to get back on track.

    I do love my flavours.

    • This salad is super quick to make.
    • It's naturally gluten-free.
    • We love that it's adaptable.
    • This salad is healthy and gut supporting and it's
    • light but packed with big flavours.

    Add my slightly sweet, slightly salty orange and miso dressing and I think this bowl will be on our rotation for a good long while.

    Why Detox?

    Now to be honest, I don't generally detox. I am not one for cutting out foods - besides the obvious (hello! vegan food blog) - but I do think adding some cleansing foods to the weekly rotation is a good way for us less motivated types to jump on the detox wagon without picking up the reigns.

    Like any room in the house, our bodies can always benefit from a spring clean.

    This rainbow salad is full of wonderful raw ingredients known to support the digestive process and tasty enough to eat for days.

    What is a Detox Salad?

    I am slooooowwwwly working towards my Masters in Human Nutrition (class of 2025, baby!) and I am forever amazed at the healing properties of good food.

    A detox salad, like this rainbow salad, uses foods rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that also contain purifying qualities. In other words, foods that flush our bodies of harmful toxins and free radicals. We mix them all up in one delicious bowl.

    Common detox foods include:

    • kale
    • cabbage
    • beetroot (beet)
    • oranges and lemons
    • garlic
    • turmeric
    • ginger
    • broccoli
    • sprouts
    • almonds

    Filling your salad with nutritious ingredients that support your body's natural detoxification process is the cornerstone of a detox salad.

    Shopping Tip. Natural pigments, broadly chlorophylls, anthocyanins, carotenoids, and betalains, determine the colour of fruits and vegetables.

    Where possible, choose colour in your shopping. Purple or yellow cauliflower, purple Brussel Sprouts, yellow carrots, red onions all add variety through different plant pigments and each pigment provides a different health benefit.

    Ingredients & Substitutions

    While you can literally play with your food to create your own rainbow blend, the following ingredients from my salad are easily sourced and delicious.

    Detox salad ingredients in a grid labelled.

    Cabbage. Loaded with Vitamin C and sulphur, cabbage helps to remove free radicals and uric acid from the body. Cabbage is also high in fibre and antioxidants

    Raw Carrot. Carrots contain Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, C and an army of nutrients including folate, niacin and pantothenic acid.

    Important to the detoxification process, Vitamin A helps flush toxins from the body and reduces fat from the liver

    Orange. With vitamin C, fibre and antioxidants, oranges are naturally good for you.

    Cut oranges on a platter.

    Apple. Dietary fibres found in apples help to flush the body while antioxidants protect cells from free radicals

    Brussels Sprouts.  A cruciferous vegetable, sprouts support both Phase 1 (the breaking down of toxins) and Phase 2 (the removal of toxins) within the body. They are also a good source of antioxidants

    Avocado. Eating good fats like those within the avocado is essential to detoxing as they stimulate bile production in the gallbladder

    Radish. Besides being a member of the cruciferous family, radishes contain a special compound that acts as an antioxidant during Phase 2 detoxification

    Mint.  Mint is thought to improve the flow of bile through the stomach speeding up the digestion process (if you love mint check out my roast chickpea bowl with preserved lemon and mint recipe. So good!)

    Almonds. Almonds are a good source of protein plus they are rich in magnesium, a mineral that is needed for detoxing.

    Miso paste. Miso pastes adds depth to this detox salad and being a fermented food is great for gut health.

    Garlic. Besides being delicious, garlic is a detox superhero.

    How to Make a Rainbow Salad

    Step 1.

    Throw the red cabbage, Brussel sprouts, radish, carrot, apple and mint to a large mixing bowl. 

    Step 2.

    In a small bowl whisk together the orange juice, miso and garlic before adding the sunflower oil in a steady stream, still whisking.

    Step 3.

    Add a quarter or so of the dressing to the salad mixture and toss through. 

    Step 4.

    To serve, add the dressed mixture to a serving bowl and top with the chopped almonds and sliced avocado. Drizzle a little more dressing to salad - to taste - and season with sea salt. 

    A bowl of chopped vegetable salad with avocado.

    Recipe Notes

    While radishes are most nutritious raw, you can roast them to soften their heat.

    You can swap out cabbage for kale, just make sure you massage it well to avoid chewiness.

    Add cooked and cooled edamame beans for a protein boost.

    FAQ

    Can I make this detox salad ahead?

    You can, but I will say, detox salads are best and most effective freshly made.

    Can I use other ingredients?

    Of course, it's your salad. There is a list of alternative detox ingredients in the post.

    More Salad Recipes.

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    • Two slices of bread topped with a salad.
      Classic Vegan Chicken Salad
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      Healthy-ish Vegan Coleslaw
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      Lemongrass Tofu Salad

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    Rainbow vegetable salad in a bowl.

    Rainbow Salad with Orange Miso Dressing

    When your body needs a boost, this rainbow salad is not only nourishing but textured, flavourful and deliciously fresh.
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    Course: Salad
    Cuisine: Japanese/Vegan
    Diet: Gluten Free | Vegan | Vegetarian
    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Servings: 3 servings
    Calories: 377kcal
    Author: Amanda Logan

    Ingredients 

    Detox Salad

    • 3 cups red cabbage finely sliced
    • 4 Brussel Sprouts finely sliced
    • 3-4 radishes sliced julienne
    • 1 carrot peeled and sliced julienne
    • 1 fuji apple cored and sliced julienne
    • ¼ fresh mint leaves finely sliced
    • ½ avocado peeled, deseeded and thinly sliced
    • ½ cup almonds roughly chopped
    • ¼ teaspoon sea salt

    Orange Miso Dressing

    • ⅓ cup freshly squeezed orange juice around 2 oranges
    • 1 tablespoon white miso paste
    • 1 garlic clove (small) minced
    • 2 tablespoon sunflower oil

    Instructions

    • Add the red cabbage, Brussel sprouts, radish, carrot, apple and mint to a large mixing bowl. 
    • In a small bowl whisk together the orange juice, miso and garlic before adding the sunflower oil in a steady stream, still whisking.
    • Add around a quarter of the dressing to the salad mixture and toss through. 
    • To serve, add the dressed mixture to a serving bowl and top with the chopped almonds and sliced avocado. Drizzle a little more dressing to salad - to taste - and season with sea salt. 
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    Notes

    Placed the sliced apple in a small bowl of water with a good squeeze of lemon juice to stop it from browning. When you are ready to mix the salad, drain the apple to add it.
    After washing vegetables for a salad, give them a good dry with a clean paper towel to remove as much water as you can. This will help avoid a watery salad. 
     

    Nutrition

    Calories: 377kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 293mg | Potassium: 842mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 4720IU | Vitamin C: 94.3mg | Calcium: 128mg | Iron: 2.4mg
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