Fresh & Naked Rainbow Salad

Different colours in fruit and veg signify different nutrients, so ‘eat the rainbow’ with this fresh, colourful salad for a healthy boost to your daily nutrient intake. Full of flavour thanks to the beetroot and with added crunch from the peppery radishes and peppers and mange tout.

Serves: 2

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: n/a

You’ll need:

For the dressing:

2 tbsp pumpkin seeds

1 lime, juice only

1 tangerine, juice only

1 tbsp olive oil

½ shallot, finely sliced

1tsp pink peppercorns, roughly crushed

For the salad:

1 slice rye bread, sliced into cubes

6 cooked Beetroot, cut into wedges

1 yellow pepper, sliced

1 carrot, grated

100g mange tout, sliced

10 radishes, quartered

a large handful of Fresh & Naked rocket

small bunch of parsley 

What to do:

In a small frying pan toast the pumpkin seeds until they start to pop, tip into a small bowl and add the lime and tangerine juice, oil, peppercorns, shallots and a pinch of salt.

In the same pan dry fry the rye bread until toasted on all sides.

Toss the rocket in a little dressing and lay on the plate.

Put the rest of the ingredients on top of the rocket, drizzle over the pumpkin seed dressing and finish with rye croutons.

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