Recipe Spiced Nut Salad
Healthy choice
Mostly whole foods
Gluten-free option
Low FODMAP
Freshly Picked
Easy peasy
Entertaining
Salads
Did you know a handful of nuts a day can increase your lifespan and lower your risk of many cancers? If you want to be a nut-lover but haven’t found them too enticing in the past, try them like this and you’ll be a convert!
You will need
Serves 2
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon chilli flakes
- 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
- 50 grams almonds, blanched
- 25 grams pumpkin seeds
- 50 grams macadamia nuts
- 3 tablespoons tamari
- 1 iceberg lettuce
- 1 lemon, juice only
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Recipe: Simon Toohey
Directions
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Step 1
Preheat the oven to 160°C.
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Step 2
In a bowl, add in the seeds and nuts along with sugar, chilli, nutritional yeast flakes and tamari, and mix well.
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Step 3
On a lined baking tray, pour out the mixture and roast in the oven for 20 minutes.
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Step 4
Cutting the stem from the iceberg lettuce, remove the leaves and place them in a nest in your serving bowl.
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Step 5
Squeeze the juice of the lemon over the lettuce, along with olive oil, salt and pepper.
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Step 6
Break apart the spiced nut mixture which may have set in a slab in the oven, and sprinkle over your lettuce bowl to serve — you may choose to intentionally fill each lettuce leaf with nuts to create little lettuce ‘cups’ of nut mixture which can be eaten like tacos!
Recipe: Simon Toohey
