Red Cabbage, Kidney Bean and Pomegranate Salad with Peanut Butter Dressing
By: Matt
Published: Saturday, July 30, 2016 - 12:23am

Ingredients




For the salad
1 cup cherry tomatoes (quartered)
0.33 cups kidney beans
1 bunch mixed greens (roughly torn)
0.5 onions (thinly sliced)
1 pomegranate
0.25 heads red cabbage (chopped)
1 red chili (deseeded and thinly sliced)
For the dressing
3 tbsps creamy peanut butter
4 tsps fresh ginger (grated)
1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
1 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsps rice vinegar
2 tablespoons sesame oil

Preparation

1 Wash the vegetables and prepare them accordingly – tear the lettuce, chop the purple cabbage, quarter cherry tomatoes, thinly slice the onions, deseed and slice the red chili. Place them all in a salad bowl. Add in cooked kidney beans and pomegranate seeds. Set aside. 2 For the dressing; Combine all the ingredients and whisk them until smooth. 3 To serve, drizzle over the salad and toss. Serve immediately.

About

OMG, the flavours, the colours! Bright purple lettuce, deep red kidney beans, mixed greens and beautiful ruby pomegranate seeds popping out everywhere.
Cover that in creamy peanut butter, ginger and garlic dressing and now we've got a party, or at least a great lunch, side or picnic dish.
Pomegranates have loads of health benefits, including fighting breast cancer and inflammation. It actually has a unique antioxidant named Punicalagin which makes pomegranate juice antioxidant activity 3 times more potent than red wine or green tea!
Even better is that everyone likes it, so you don't have to hide it under other food for your friends/family to eat it, like kale.
The kidney beans add protein and fibre. If you feed this to non vegans/vegetarians just make sure not to hang out with them the day after, or at least only in well ventilated spaces.
BTW, if you use dried beans make sure you soak them for 24 hours first with a splash of apple cider vinegar, then drain, add fresh water and boil for a couple of hours.
You don't have to use the peanut butter, ginger and garlic dressing, but we'd really recommend it.
All this can be yours in just 15 minutes! We hope you love it. It's healthy, delicious and simple.