Playspace: June 2006
Pure Medicine Salad
By Signy Wilson
This is my favourite salad and dressing. It originally comes from the kitchen and imagination of my friend Madeleine. I committed it to paper so that Sally Errey could publish it, along with others of my recipes, as part of her Staying Alive Cook Book. I like to call it the Pure Medicine Salad as everything in it is good for you, which supports my (and Hippocrates’, often known as the “Father of Medicine”) perspective… “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.”
Salad
1 (4-to-6 cup or 1-L) package mixed salad greens
Healing herbs such as chickweed, dandelion greens, or wild violet
leaves (Violata odorata) — this last one being especially good for
breast cancer prevention
1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped parsley
1/2 cup (125 mL) sunflower seeds
1/2 cup (125 mL) sprouted lentils or bean sprouts
1 or 2 ripe avocados, sliced or cubed
Dressing
2 Tbsp (30 mL) flaxseed oil
1 Tbsp (15 mL) extra-virgin olive oil
2 tsp (10 mL) Bragg's
2 tsp (10 mL) freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced
5 tsp (25 mL) ground flaxseeds
In the bottom of a salad bowl, whisk together flaxseed oil, olive oil, Bragg's, lemon juice, and garlic until dressing is thick and opaque. Add more lemon juice to taste. Immediately before serving, whisk in ground flaxseeds. Add salad greens, healing herbs, parsley, sunflower seeds, and sprouted lentils or bean sprouts. Toss until well coated with dressing. Gently stir in avocado, being careful it does not get mushy.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws
him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
–Hasidic saying