Search
cW Recipes: Green Goddess Salad
GREEN GODDESS SALAD
Eat the rainbow! This salad features a variety of complex carbohydrates with strong color pigments, like pomegranate, greens, and garlic. The pigments in these ingredients act as powerful antioxidants to neutralize cancer-causing free radicals, and they taste pretty good, too.

What exactly is a “cancer-fighting” food? Well, it’s any food that promotes healthier overall cell function, which can reduce cancer cell growth. The food we eat breaks down into macronutrients and micronutrients which provide fuel for our cells. While all cells need fuel to function, certain fuels have properties that can help fight cancer.

Eat the rainbow! This salad features a variety of complex carbohydrates with strong color pigments, like pomegranate, greens, and garlic. The pigments in these ingredients act as powerful antioxidants to neutralize cancer-causing free radicals, and they taste pretty good, too.

Serves 4

Recipe ingredients

ingredients

SALAD:

  • 1 cup spinach, chopped
  • ½ cup walnuts, chopped
  • ½ small radish, thinly sliced
  • ¼ cup white onion, thinly sliced
  • ½ cup pea shoots
  • ½ cup golden beets, canned or raw, thinly sliced
  • ¼ cup pomegranate seeds
  • 1 tablespoon hemp seeds, shelled

 

DRESSING:

  • 1 tablespoon tahini
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • ½ cup cashews
  • 1 whole avocado, cut in half, with skin and pit removed
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 10-15 basil leaves, roughly chopped
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • ½ cup water (plus more for thinning)
  • juice of 1½ lemons
  • salt to taste
  • ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
directions

Directions

  1. If preparing raw beets, fill a saucepan with water and put whole beets into the water, making sure they are completely submerged. Heat on high and bring to a boil.
  2. Boil for 2 minutes and reduce heat to low. Let the beets cook in water for approximately 1 hour, or until a fork can easily pierce the skin. Once cooked, let the beets cool in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. When the beets are cooled, use a paper towel to rub off the skin, or use a knife to peel. Once the skin is removed, cut in half and chop into 1-inch slices.
  3. Toss all of the salad ingredients together.
  4. Add all of the dressing ingredients to a food processor and blend until smooth. It will be thick once blended, so alternate between 2-parts water and 1-part olive oil until it is a pourable consistency.
  5. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss before serving.

Maria Tripodis, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., is the founder of Rebel Nutrition. Through evidence-based practice, she promotes healthy habits, balanced diets, and self-confidence to help clients feel empowered to move past barriers to reach optimal health.

More
articles

FORCE
(Y)our Stories

The Brightened & Enlightened Series Presents: FORCE

Cancer Wellness is proud to present the first installment of our new series in partnership with Bright Pink. FORCE is the first (and largest) nonprofit focused on providing education and resources to the hereditary cancer community, while championing efforts to widen access to genetic testing, cancer screenings and lifesaving treatments and procedures — regardless of income or insurance status.

Read More »
FITNESS TRACKER
Coping Strategies & Techniques

One Step at a Time

If you didn’t log your workout, did you even break a sweat? We’ve rounded up our favorite fitness trackers based on battery life, features, and aesthetics.

Read More »
TOUR DE PINK
Breast Cancer

Reason to Ride

Young Survival Coalition’s Tour de Pink raises funds for young adult breast cancer support.

Read More »
DR MUAIAD KITTANEH
Ask the Doctor

An Unhealthy Predisposition

Research and advancements in treatment for rare cancers like mesothelioma is slow-going, but Loyola Medicine’s Dr. Muaiad Kittaneh is doing the work few else will.

Read More »
I LOVE LONDON
(Y)our Stories

The Art of Slowing Down

When cW columnist Jessica Walker went on an overseas excursion with her husband after his cancer diagnosis, she learned the small moments of joy are just as momentous as those that seem larger than life.

Read More »