Eat your greens! Aaaand we’ve got a mouthwatering salad that will have you craving delicious leafy greens! Healthy and nourishing this Beet Greens and Apple Salad with Maple Mustard Vinaigrette is a powerhouse for vitamins, nutrients, and antioxidants with baby beet greens, spinach, and arugula, topped with crisp apples, zesty red onions, rich pecans and tart cranberries, and tossed with a deliciously tangy and sweet dressing that completes this wholesome salad. Get ready to up your greens with this fantastic salad, making it this week’s awesome Whip It Up Wednesday recipe.

Whole Food Plant Based recipe, no oil, no refined sugar, no highly processed ingredients and gluten free.

Ameera here!

This week’s Whip It Up Wednesday is our Beet Greens and Apple Salad with Maple Mustard Vinaigrette. It is soooo gosh-darned delicious; we couldn’t get enough of it.  We made it three days in a row because we just thought it was so tasty!

I originally wanted to call this salad “Fancy-Pants Restaurant Salad.” It just has that elegant touch of beautiful baby beet greens with those vibrant pink streaks, crunchy glazed pecans, crisp-sweet apples, and paired with a sweet and tangy mustard vinaigrette – Mmmmm! Just perfection!

Whip it up Wednesday

As you already know, every Wednesday, we feature a quick and easy recipe that can be “whipped up” in 20 minutes or less.  This recipe can be made in about 7 minutes (15 minutes if you need to make the glazed pecans) which really helps speed things up in the kitchen.

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Dressing Heaven

The dressing we made for this salad is the bomb-diggity. We totally loved it; the tanginess of the apple cider vinegar paired perfectly with the maple syrup and ground mustard. It worked really well with the salad greens, sliced apples, red onions, glazed pecans and dried cranberries.  I could eat it every day of the week!

Glazed Goodness

And don’t get me started on the glazed pecans!  OMGosh, I love those things so much!  They give the salad that perfect lil crunch that bursts with just the right amount of sweetness in this super healthy salad. Great way to get the kids (both little kids and big kids) to eat a wholesome salad that is Popeye-packed with nutrient-dense greens!

Deeeelicious!

I could go on and on about this salad because it is, after all, an amazing salad, but tasting is believing.  I hope you give it a try!  I just know that you will love it too!

We hope you enjoy our new Whip It Up Wednesday quick and easy ideas!

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Beet Greens and Apple Salad with Maple Mustard Vinaigrette

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• Author: Monkey and Me Kitchen Adventures
• Prep Time: 7 Minutes
• Cook Time: 8 Minutes (glazed pecans)
• Total Time: 15 Minutes
• Yield: 2-4 servings 1x
• Category: Salad

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Eat your greens! Aaaand we’ve got a mouthwatering salad that will have you craving delicious leafy greens! Healthy and nourishing this Beet Greens and Apple Salad with Maple Mustard Vinaigrette is a powerhouse for vitamins, nutrients, and antioxidants with baby beet greens, spinach, and arugula, topped with crisp apples, zesty red onions, rich pecans and tart cranberries, and tossed with a deliciously tangy and sweet dressing that completes this wholesome salad. Get ready to up your greens with this fantastic salad, making it this week’s awesome Whip It Up Wednesday recipe.

Whole Food Plant Based recipe, no oil, no refined sugar, no highly processed ingredients and gluten free.

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Ingredients

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Maple Mustard Vinaigrette

• 4 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 2 Tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon tahini
• 1 to 3 teaspoons organic maple syrup *
• 2 teaspoons miso *
• 1 teaspoon ground mustard
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon dried minced onion flakes
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt (+/- to taste) *
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Beet Greens Salad Ingredients:

• ¼ cup thinly sliced red onion
• 1 unpeeled Fuji apple, thinly sliced
• 3 cups baby beet greens *
• 3 cups baby spinach greens *
• 2 cups baby arugula *
• ¼ cup Glazed Pecans *(optional)
• 1/8 cup dried cranberries (optional)

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Instructions

1. In a small bowl, add all the Maple Mustard Vinaigrette ingredients, whisk to combine. Set aside.
2. Make the Glazed Pecans (see notes section).
3. Add the salad greens, finely sliced red onion, finely sliced apple into a large bowl, mix to combine.
4. Drizzle the vinaigrette dressing over the salad until coated. You may or may not use all the dressing.
5. Top individual servings with the Glazed Pecans and dried cranberries.

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Notes

*Baby Greens:  Use baby greens such as baby beet greens, baby spinach, baby arugula, baby kale, etc.   Add more or use less than the amount indicated as desired.  Note:  Use baby beet greens and not mature beet greens (that had a beet attached) for this salad.

*Miso:  We used Miso Master Organic Mellow White Premium Lite Miso, Certified Gluten Free.  Miso really lends itself to balancing flavors when you don’t use oil. You can also substitute with chickpea miso for a soy free version.

*Organic Maple Syrup:  Start with the smaller amount of maple syrup for the dressing, increase in small increments until the desired level of flavor is achieved. We found that 3 teaspoons of maple syrup were perfect.

*Glazed Pecans:  We used 1/2 batch of our Glaze Pecan recipe here, minus the cinnamon.

*Sea Salt:  Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.

*Serving:  2 to 4

*Storage: Refrigerate, Dressing alone-use within 7 days (use within 3 days if the salad is dressed).

*Nutrition Information: Does not include optional add-ins of pecans and cranberries

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