An Easy Vegan Salad Recipe made with lettuce and avocado, carrot, raisins, nutritional yeast, and a mustard vinaigrette. This simply vegan salad is great for eating outdoors, as a packed lunch or a healthy dinner dish and couldn’t be simpler to make!
Classic lettuce and Avocado salad is so simple yet incredibly easy to get wrong.
Sourcing The Perfect Lettuce for this Healthy Salad Recipe
The freshest lettuce is on your doorstep! Go to the farmer's market and buy fresh, crispy, and without any black spots. Do not compromise with the ones from the supermarkets. When lettuce is your main ingredient it has to taste good. Preferably choose organic and if you have your own produce you are more than lucky.
A good salad should be fresh and full of flavor. You must wash the lettuce thoroughly and dry it very well to remove any moisture. Cut it into medium pieces and put the vinaigrette before you serve and not prior.
What Avocado To Use?
The only avocado to use is the ripe one. In order to understand whether it's ripe or not, smell it. A ripe avocado should smell slightly sweet. If the avocado smells musky, moldy, or rancid, it's rotten and unfit to eat. Another thing is that a ripe avocado is a dark green, with purple hues. A bright green avocado will be unripe and tasteless, while a dark brown or black avocado will be overripe or even rotten.
How To Make This Healthy Salad Recipe
- Gather all your ingredients.
2. Clean the lettuce and dry it very well. Cut it into medium pieces.
3. Cut the avocado into small pieces.
4. Put all the ingredients for the vinaigrette in a shaker and shake very well.
5. Place the lettuce in a bowl, grind the carrot on the top, add the avocado, the sesame seeds, the raisins and mix
6. Before you serve, drizzle with the vinaigrette and with the nutritional yeast.
7. Mix well and serve.
Important Tips For Making A Health Salad Recipe
- Use fresh ingredients, locally grown ingredients
- Use a good quality mustard
- Use a good quality olive oil
- You can add nuts, baked tofu, or black beans and make it a full meal.
- Use any other green instead of lettuce
- You can make also an Avocado lime ranch dressing or avocado green goddess dressing to drizzle on the top.
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📖 Recipe
Easy Vegan Salad | Lettuce & Avocado Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 1 lettuce
- 1 avocado
- 1 small carrot
- 2 tablespoon raisins
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
Vinaigrette
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon mustard
- ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Clean the lettuce and dry it very well. Cut it into medium pieces.
- Cut the avocado into small pieces.
- Put the salt, black pepper, mustard, vinegar, olive and lemon juice in a shaker and shake very well.
- Place the lettuce in a bowl, grind the carrot on the top, add the avocado, the sesame seeds, the raisins and mix.
- Before you serve, drizzle with the vinaigrette and with the nutritional yeast.
- Mix well and serve.
Notes
- Use fresh ingredients, locally grown ingredients
- Use a good quality mustard
- Use a good quality olive oil
- You can add nuts, baked tofu or black beans and make it a full meal.
- Use any other green instead of lettuce
Nutrition
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Brian Jones
What a lovely sounding simple and fresh salad and that dressing sounds superb.
Alina | Cooking Journey Blog
This is the best for a healthy lunch! Never tried to combine avocado and raisins in a salad, sounds interesting.
Nicolas Hortense
I definitely approve of the flavours and ingredients in this salad!! Really nicely done!
Denise
Thank you for the tips on picking out avocados, I usually get over ripe or under ripe. This salad is perfect, its something I could eat a few times a week!
Toni
I loved it! Such a perfect salad for summer!