Health & Fitness
Refreshing Summer Garden Mint Salad
Lighten up your summer diet with this refreshing, delicious and healthy Summer Garden Mint Salad recipe from Family Acupuncture & Herbs.
Mint Salad–Light, Refreshing and Healthy!
Salads are perfect for summer time--light, refreshing and packed full of good-for-you veggies. We had an excess of mint growing in our own vegetable garden so we threw in it our salad. It was so good that we now can’t get enough of it. Don't have any fresh mint of your own? We are happy to share. Contact us for a FREE plant!
Mint has many wonderful health benefits, including relieving nausea, indigestion and irritable bowl syndrome (IBS). We love having it on hand (fresh or dried) for our kids to munch on when their tummies are bothering them or to add to green tea. It also contains antioxidants and may help alleviate seasonal allergy symptoms. Indeed, we often use them at our clinic in our Chinese medicinal herbal formulas to support allergy sufferers. And who could forget the wonders it works on your breath!
Here is our recipe for Summer Garden Salad with Mint:
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1 Head of romaine lettuce, washed and chopped
1 Cup Loosely packed mint, chopped
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1 Cucumber, peeled and chopped
3-4 Radishes, chopped
1 15 oz can of garbanzo beans (We like Eden Organic brand for its organic ingredients and BPA free lining)
1 Cup Tomatoes, chopped
1/2 Cup Carrots, chopped
For the Dressing:
2 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
3 Tbsp White vinegar
2 tsp Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
Mix the chopped ingredients together.
Mix dressing ingredients together separately. Using a small canning jar is great because no stirring is involved (all you need to do is shake it up), and storing is easy because you can just put the lid on it and put any extras in the refrigerator.
Pour the dressing over the salad, and viola! Enjoy!
Family Acupuncture & Herbs provides acupuncture, herbal medicine and holistic health coaching services. We are located on the Reading/Wakefield line at 591 North Ave., Door 1, Wakefield, MA. Interested in finding out how about how to incorporate holistic health practices into your life? Visit us at www.readingacupuncture.com or contact us at 781.944.5443.
