Irresistible watercress salad
Boost your health with this irresistible simple watercress salad! Packed with nutrients, anti-inflammatory benefits, and gut-friendly ingredients. Try it today
Servings: 2 people
Calories:
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Cutting board
- kitchen knife
- Salad spoons
Ingredients
- a bunch of watercress
- 1 medium carrot
- 3 tablespoon sauerkraut or any other fermented veggies
- 1 medium apple
- 1 medium avocado
- a handful of parsley or fresh herb of choice
- ½ a lemon for the juice
- a pinch of sea salt
- 1 tablespoon cold-pressed olive oil/healthy oil
Instructions
- Clean all the greens and fruits. Make sure to thoroughly clean the watercress as it can contain small organisms.
- Hold the watercress bunch and cut off the stems. You need leaves with small stems. The big stems are very bitter.
- Place the watercress leaves in a salad bowl.
- Using a vegetable peeler, get the carrot ribbons and add these to the watercress
- Dice the fruits and parsley, then add them to the bowl.
- Put the sauerkraut in the bowl. Squeeze the lemon all over the ingredients in the salad bowl.
- Sprinkle the salt and add the oil.
- Using salad spoons, gently combine the ingredients to make a delicious salad.
- Serve immediately. Enjoy
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Notes
- I like eating my salads immediately to minimize the loss of nutrients like vitamin C and some antioxidants. However, you can prepare this salad some hours ahead.
- If left for more than a day, this salad will be soggy. Ideally, if you want to prep this salad, clean the watercress in advance and store it well (see the post).
- Apples and avocados oxidize very fast, so we're using lemon juice to slow that oxidation. I don't recommend keeping this salad for more than a day.