A lovely kale and cabbage salad with broccoli florets, chickpeas and sunflower seeds coated with a light apple cider vinegar goddess dressing. Vegan, gluten-free and paleo!
In case you haven’t noticed, I have a tiny crush on kale. I like to have it on hand every week to make something — like this salad, or this one or quiche or maybe a juice and a green smoothie… I’ll stop there because I think you get my drift. Anyhow, this week I decided to stray from my normal go-tos and came up with something new.
It’s not revolutionary as it’s just a kale salad but the ingredients are quite cleansing and the dressing is super simple to make, yet still robust with flavor. I think you guys are really going to enjoy it!
And I can’t say that I came up with this salad idea all on my own, I was inspired by this holiday detox salad recipe from What’s Cooking Good Looking, a new blog I’m loving as of late. Not only do I heart the blog name (so cute), but Jodi’s recipes are right up my alley. Seriously… just check out her latest post for baked sweet potatoes with mustard greens, leeks, white beans + a cilantro tahini. Yes, please! Already pinned that bad boy.
The dressing I used is completely different from what the original recipe calls for, but it pairs quite nicely with the salad. The flavor reminds me a lot of Annie’s Goddess Dressing, but a bit thinner and without the tahini.
The recipe for the dressing makes more than enough to dress the salad so you’ll have left overs to use on other salads or as a topping for another dish. I can attest to the fact that it tastes delicious on tofu, veggies and quinoa.
Kale & Cabbage Goddess Salad
Ingredients
- 4 cups kale (approx. 1/2 bunch), de-stemmed and shredded
- 4 cups red cabbage, shredded
- 1 medium crown of broccoli, chopped into bite-size pieces
- 1 (15 oz) can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1/3 cup roasted unsalted sunflower seeds
Goddess Dressing
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
- 1/4 cup coconut aminos or Bragg's liquid aminos, tamari or soy sauce
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
- ground pepper, to taste
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Combine all dressing ingredients except olive oil into a blender. Blend until smooth and slowly add in the olive oil with the blender on a low setting. I made the dressing in my Vitamix, but if don't have a blender you can easily make it by whisking all the ingredients together as well. Just make sure you mince your garlic.
- Make sure all your salad ingredients are chopped into bite-size pieces and toss into a large bowl to combine. Toss in chickpeas and sunflower seeds and top with dressing (I used about ½ the batch, but feel free to add as much or as little as you'd like). Massage the salad with your hands until all ingredients are well coated. Enjoy!
Looks beautiful Britt! I LOVE making kale salads. Have a great weekend; hope all is well.
YUM, thanks for another great recipe idea for salads..people think they are boring but really you can do anything with em!
I am truly obsessed with kale salads. Thanks for sharing another one I can add into the mix!
-Emily K.
I absolutely love kale and what a great thing to do with add chickpeas to it. The dressing looks divine too 🙂
Kale is my favorite! Awesome looking salad. I just got a juicer and want to try something with it. Do you have a fav kale juice recipe?
This salad dressing is soooo yummy! It almost tastes like caesar, and for someone who can’t have dairy this is such a treat!
I can’t wait to eat this for dinner tomorrow!
This looks beautiful! You KNOW I love all of your dressing recipes, so I’ll have to try this one out. 🙂
YUM! That looks so good! Alex saw my computer and he’s like “Is that a kale salad??” Looks like I’ve gotten him addicted as well 😉 I’ll add this one to the list of ones to try!
I have heard so much about kale and cabbage. the benefits to the body and the nutrients it contains. I will def try this one out since I am into healthy eating now.
YUM. I’ll definitely be trying this… perfect for spring!
This looks like a great salad. Any time we can encourage people to eat more of them, we should do it. Garden Kitchen offers a “build your own salad” option with kale on the menu.
Looks tasty. Just to clarify are all the salad ingredients added raw?
Sorry I’m just now seeing this, but yes, all the ingredients are raw.
Is there a substitute for nutritional yeast?
Nutritional yeast is a hard ingredient to sub for because it adds a good amount of nutty, cheesy flavor to the dressing and there’s a lot used (1/2 cup) in this dressing. If you’re having trouble finding it at your local grocery store you can buy it online. Here’s the kind I buy: http://amzn.to/28Riqzb.