Healthy Rainbow Salad

Healthy Rainbow Salad Recipe

Choose all the colours of the rainbow and load up on brightly coloured vegetables rich in antioxidants. This healthy rainbow salad with a nutty Satay sauce combines raw and baked vegetables, a delectable combination of colours, aesthetics and textures. This recipe is a rough guideline for you, however, there really aren’t any rules. Go wild!

Total prep & cook time: 20 min

Serves: 4

Recipe shared with permission from Turban Chopsticks

Ingredients for Healthy Rainbow Salad

  • 1 jar of Turban Chopsticks Satay Peanut Sauce
  • 1 sweet potato 
  • 4 potatoes 
  • 1 carrot (julienne)
  • 1 broccoli
  • 2 tomatoes (sliced)
  • 1 cucumber (sliced)
  • 2 cups cooked quinoa, brown rice or barley
  • Half can of coconut cream
  • Mulberries and basil leaves to garnish

Method

Cube sweet potato and potatoes, season with salt and pepper and bake at 200 degrees C for 20 minutes.

Slice tomato and cucumber. Julienne or peel the carrots into slithers.

Add jar of Satay Peanut Sauce with half a can of coconut milk into a saucepan. Simmer for 5 minutes.

Arrange quinoa and barley together with vegetables on plate. Serve Satay sauce in a small bowl.

Turban tips

Try adding fresh greens such as lettuce or spinach for a lighter salad.

Instead of cooking the sauce, just mix it through with lemon juice and yoghurt for a cold sauce.

You can mix up the grains and use brown rice, cous cous or even chickpeas or beans.