Tasty Detox Salad with Orange Miso Dressing

When your body needs a boost, this detox 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.

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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.

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 a flat-out a pain in the arse.

Why You'll Love This Detox Salad

While this detox salad is perfect to clean the pipes, so to speak, the combination of crunchy cabbage, carrot, sprouts radish and almonds balanced by creamy avocado and sweet apple make it a kick-arse tasty salad . It's:

Quick to make
Naturally gluten-free
Adaptable
Healthy and
Light but packed with flavour

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. If this is detoxing then maybe I should pick up the reigns.

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 detox salad with orange miso dressing is full of wonderful raw ingredients known to support the digestive process and tasty enough to eat for days.

What is a Detox Salad?

A detox 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
Beets
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.

What You'll Need for this Salad

While you can literally play with your food to create your own detox 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.

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.

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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 Detox 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 like in my roasted radish mini bagel recipe.

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's

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.

Want more salads in your life? Try these tasty numbers.

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