comment icon 71 more comments This month our theme was salads, and HOLY HEAVEN we got a lot of yummy salad submissions. I have never felt so much love towards vegetables in all my life. But not just vegetables – noodles, quinoa, chicken, fruit – every type of salad was well-represented. We sorted them, and drooled over them, and eventually settled on the one that intrigued us all: The Kitchen Sink Sunflower Salad, submitted by Misha. Here’s what this salad is all about:
vegetables more vegetables any vegetables you want, really they could be roasted vegetables – like sweet potato and brussels sprouts or raw vegetables – like a randomly crunchy cucumber could also include beans and other protein-y things and you should throw a handful of seeds on there but mostly THE DRESSING a creamy, clean-eating, sunflowery dressing with a pinch of curry powder to give it life.
This is very much a make-it-with-whatever-you-have-salad which happens to be my favorite kind of salad.
How To Make Our Sunflower Salad:
Misha, thank you so much for your Kitchen Sink Sunflower Salad recipe submission! As you can see from the pictures, we loved it. We loved it so much that while we were eating, I forgot to take any more pictures. There was silent crunching. There was joy. There was plate-licking. And there were plans made to make it again. You guys need to try this! Misha knows what’s up.
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2 tablespoons sunflower seed butter 4 tablespoons plain yogurt pinch of garlic powder 1–2 teaspoons of curry powder 1–2 teaspoons cumin freshly ground pepper salt water to thin it out to taste
For the Salad (this part is open for interpretation based on what you have!):
1 sweet potato 10 brussel sprouts 2 cups kale 1 cucumber 1 cup black beans (or any beans) protein of choice (we used two crumbled veggie burgers ) 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
Misha also says: “For the yogurt, you can use Greek or not; Trader Joe’s French village whole milk yogurt is highly recommended.” Give us watcha got! You can submit your recipe by clicking here. Submissions are now closed.
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