Power Rainbow Salad With Dijon Peanut Sauce

This colourful and nutrient-dense for the energy salad is the perfect make ahead meal! packed with crunchy greens and a peanut dijon dressing!

I made this energy Kale Salad out of 'easy out the refrigerator' attempt. do not you love while unintended success takes place?

I've copious amounts of kale, purple peppers, red cabbage and carrots mendacity round. as opposed to finding individual recipes to apply them for, i've them all together as i've been craving massive, colorful recently salads. generally for nutritious motives, however i get hungry between photographing and cleaning, I need some thing now. And extra times than not, it is not what i am running on. Oh the issues of the meals blogging.

Kale is all of the rage. even as a few years in the past, you would have seen adding spinach to all my salads. And at the same time as I nevertheless love spinach in salads and dishes, as it's the most important one which i will maintain as much as a few hot soups and pasta, and can nonetheless preserve its shape in premade salads. Making it ideal for Sunday, prepped and simply looking forward to for lunch time for the duration of the week.

INGREDIENTS:

Salad:

• 1 large bunch kale, finely chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 1/2 cups julienned carrots
• 1/2 head purple cabbage, sliced
• 2 cups finely chopped broccoli florets
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can chickpeas, drained & rinsed
• 3/4 cup peanuts

Dressing:

• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 lime, juiced
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
• 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 3/4 teaspoon garlic

INSTRUCTIONS:

Salad:

1. Toss all kale, purple bell pepper, carrots, cabbage, broccoli and chickpeas together in a large bowl. Set aside.

Dressing:

1. In a small blender, prepare the dressing.
2. When geared up to serve, add 2 tablespoons, per serving, over the salad and toss. top with chopped peanuts.

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