Spicy Thai Salad with Blood Oranges & Hemp Seeds
Spice up your plant nutrition game with this beautiful, delicious salad. From the sweet and spicy dressing to the pop of citrus, this one will have you craving salad more often. Enjoy better plant-based nutrition easily Better nutrition better be delicious, and that includes salads too! Are you a practitioner? Check out our all-in-one system to grow your business.
Ingredients
Dressing:
- 1/4 cup olive or grapeseed oil
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1 tbsp grated lime zest
- 4 tbsp mustard
- 4 tbsp rice vinegar
- 3 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp water
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Salad:
- 1 head romaine lettuce, chopped into bite-size pieces
- 1 cup roughly chopped cilantro
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint
- 1/2 cup chopped thai or regular basil
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- 1 cup matchstick carrots
- 1 red bell pepper, cut into thin matchsticks
- 1 large English cucumber, cut into thin matchsticks
- 2 blood oranges, cut into sections
- 3 tbsp hemp seeds
Instructions
Directions
- Whisk all dressing ingredients together in a small bowl. When adding the Thai chili, start with a small amount if you are not familiar and add more depending on how spicy you want the dressing. They are extremely spicy, especially the rib and the seeds. The dressing will get spicier with time, so I suggest that you make the dressing in advance. You can modify the taste if needed. Note: Be careful not to touch your eyes after handling the chopped chilis.
- Using a sharp knife, peel citrus peel and all the white pith so you can only see the flesh. Working over a small work bowl, cut in between each membrane to cut out each citrus section. Squeeze remaining membrane. Pour orange juice into the dressing and reserve the blood orange segments. If blood oranges are out of season, you can try oranges or even sliced strawberries.
- Toss all salad ingredients in a serving platter and drizzle with the dressing just before serving. Sprinkle with additional herbs and a fresh squeeze of lime juice.
