This Rainbow Salad with Garlic Avocado Dressing is bursting with flavor and nutrients from the wonderful combination of colorful foods.
I’ve never been much of a salad person. Out of all of the times that I’ve gone out to dinner in my life, I think I’ve ordered a salad maybe a total of 20 times. Dass it.
However, over the years, as my diet has changed (for the better) and my tendency to throw food into a bowl and call it a meal has exponentially increased, so has my propensity to eat a salad. However, I will say that salads usually remain to be something I make instead of order at at a restaurant. I don’t know what it is… I guess I feel like unless it’s some epic salad full of my favorite foods and flavors, then I’m going to use my money on something else.
But this salad, my friends, is one of those epic salads that you would want to order at a restaurant.
A mix of organicgirl PEPPERGREENS and sweet pea greens made for the perfect, peppery combination of salad base. Starting off with a good base is key. Here’s what’s in these greens:
PEPPERGREENS: arugula, baby green mustard, baby red mustard, cress, baby spinach, baby green bok choy, baby green chard, baby red chard, baby red bok choy, mizuna, komatsuna.
sweet pea greens: sweet pea shoots, baby green romaine, tango, baby green oakleaf, baby greenleaf, baby green bok choy, lolla rosa.
Each bite you take is overflowing with the bold taste of such a unique blend of nutrient-dense greens.
And the dressing… one of my favorite parts.
I love using my mini food processor for all sorts of things, and when I can make a ridiculously good addition to a giant salad in less than a minute, I am very happy about said food processor. I normally dress my salads with some olive oil, salt, and pepper. That’s all. But this wasn’t just any salad, so I had to be a little more creative than that. Avocados always make an appearance into the salads I make, but I’ve never added them into the dressing, until now. Best decision ever, Christina.
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If you’re unsure of how to roast sweet potatoes, check out this recipe.
- [b]For the salad:[/b]
- 1 sweet potato, sliced and roasted
- 1/4 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1/4 cup black beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 handfuls organicgirl PEPPERGREENS and sweet pea greens
- 1 vine ripe tomato, sliced
- 1/4 Hass avocado, sliced
- [b]For the dressing:[/b]
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 avocado
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1 tbsp rive vinegar
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- First, make the dressing. Add all of the dressing ingredients into a food processor. Blend until smooth. Place in a measuring cup and put in the refrigerator until salad is ready to serve.
- To thaw corn, place in the microwave for 2-3 minutes. Set aside.
- Place greens in a bowl.
- Top with sliced tomato, roasted sweet potatoes, corn, avocado, and black beans.
- When ready to serve, drizzle with Garlic Avocado Dressing.
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What are your favorite salad ingredients?
What’s one ingredient that always makes it way into your salads?
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This looks devine! Great pictures as well. Anything with avocado is a winner to me!
I totally agree – avocado is the answer to everything 😀 thanks Christine!
This bowl is B-E-A-UTIFUL. That is all. I want it in my belly today.
Haha thank you Marina!!
I almost don’t even want to call this a “dump salad” because it’s way to pretty to disrespect it in that way but oh how I love salads with everything but the kitchen sink! I love how the hearty stuff is piled on with such a light and simple dressing!
Hahah I’ve never heard of that term. But yeah I just love throwing everything into one bowl!
Avocado for SURE always makes it into my salad, unless I’m out which is a terrible terrible day for a salad.
Loving all of the add-ins here and the peppergreens mix sounds awesome! I get a mix like that from our Amish farm down the road (yes, an Amish farm… there are many by me, lol)
And I also love using avo as a dressing as well! More often than not my lunch salad dressing is avo, lemon juice, vinegar and a touch of yogurt. Simple, single-serve and tasty!
YES I love dressing combo. Whenever I make tuna salad I just mix it with avo and Greek yogurt and that serves as my mayo 😀
That dressing OMG. I could just bathe in it. (Weird? Too far? Oh well.)
Super normal ur good
The colors in this salad are BEAUTIFUL!!! And I can only imagine how delicious it tastes! Yummy in my tummy! XOXO
Thank you muchhhh <33
This recipe is so beautiful, and all the colors means all those good nutrients too
That dressing is giving me ALL the feels! Love these feel-good bowls so so much.
Garlic Avacado dressing sounds heavenly!!!
Who knew that you could make dressing out of avocado!? Pure genius!
I love roasted sweet potatoes in salads, especially with avocado! Yum!
This is so up my alley <3 I'm not about that ordering a salad at a restaurant life, but I'd do it for this beauty!!
Yum! Why have I never added sweet potatoes to my salads before?? Salads can be so delicious is you add the right toppings! None of that lettuce, cucumber, tomato combo for me- BORING. This looks much more fun! Avocado dressing is bomb!
This dressing sounds so good and like something I want to make in bulk to put on everything
Anything with Garlic is YESSSS for me. It’s my favorite seasoning, and I would love to create this salad! Thank you for sharing such an awesome recipe, Christina!
This dressing sounds amazing!!
That dressing looks DELICIOUS! I really was just thinking yesterday that a mini food processor would be so helpful for all of my dressing and small chop situations. I hate lugging out my big @$$ food processor to make pesto!
I’m pretty sure this garlic avocado dressing would make cardboard taste good sounds amazing!! This salad is beautiful!!
Oh my gosh! YUM! This salad is SO beautiful!! I just love avocado! Seriously, it’s the best!! Thanks for the recipe girl!! <3
Oh yeah that’s epic!! I rarely order salads when out, unless it’s lunch time. However, if it were dinner time and this was on the menu, I’d be all over it!
This is seriously the prettiest salad in all the land. You definitely had me at that sauce *heart eye emoji*
Rainbow salads are THE BEST THING EVER! 😉
I needed one more recipe for this week’s menu!! This is definitely going down this week!! It looks amazing – can’t go wrong with using avocado for dressing