The Complete Meal Salad

Ingredients

For the Salad

• salad greens of your choice - lettuce, rucola, etc


• herbs of your choice - dill, parsely, basil, spring onions


• chopped red vegetables of your choice - red capsicum, tomatoes, red cabbage


• chopped yellow and orange vegetables of your choice - yellow capsicum, carrots


• onions thinly sliced - optional


• boiled Potatoes cubed


• chickpeas soaked overnight, boiled and cooled

For the Dressing

• 2 tbsp of date syrup


• 1 - 2 tbsp grated fresh ginger


• juice of 3 limes


• 1 tsp salt


• olive oil or a little water


• pepper to taste

Method
Mix all the salad ingredients together in a large salad bowl. Mix the dressing ingredients together and toss over the salad and serve.

Variation

The chickpeas and potatoes are what make the salad filling. The chickpeas can be replaced with other beans - butter beans, boiled kidney beans etc.

The potatoes can be replaced with boiled sweetcorn kernels, sweet potato, or even steamed green beans, steamed cubed beetroot etc.