8-MINUTE HIGH-FIBER SALAD

                              8-MINUTE HIGH-FIBER SALAD

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Improve your gut health with this simple, quick and easy high-fiber salad that is also vegan and gluten-free! Filled with beans and lots of vegetables this high-fiber recipe will fill you up and make you feel amazing!

Canned food.

Can life get any better?

I know you’re starting a day dream about high-class canned spaghetti right this second. But if you’re looking for something more sophisticated, beautiful, delicious yet super healthy – you must make this super quick high-fiber salad. For lunch. Or for dinner.

In fact, have it twice a day. I did that almost every day last week. It’s thrown together in what feels like a second and it’s amazing – it is satisfying, but light and energizing.

If you’re cautious about canned food – I don’t like canned food either – it’s salty, potentially has some BPA and is not the most delicious thing in the world. But the last time I cooked beans – it took me more than 1 hour!!!! to have them ready, even though I soaked them for 36h. 

And I think they still weren’t ready because afterward I gassed everyone and pretended it wasn’t me. Then I flew myself to the moon – yes those gasses beat gravity and can send you into outer space.

To avoid this fun experience this time I just bought canned beans. And corn, while I was at it.

I basically bought a lot of cans and collected them in my house like a squirrel imagining I’ll be locked in a basement for years with Christopher Walken and Brandan Fraser and they wouldn’t let me eat any of their food. I don’t know why.

I rinsed the heck out of these cans – in the hope that the disgusting fluid surrounding the beans would have a brighter future somewhere down the pipes and that this procedure will reduce the salt content.'

HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS 

Canned ingredients or not – this salad is beyond healthy. It’s rich in fiber, iron, vitamin C and vitamin A. I also added walnuts to keep the omega-3 level up and reduce inflammation. And if that wasn’t enough garlic, onions, lemon and cabbage help your liver kick toxins out of the body. Remember: the liver’s the one doing the job, those foods are just the assistants.

To sum it up the foods in this salad are:

• anti-inflammatory
• antioxidant-rich
• high-fiber
• high-protein
• delicious

And all that in 8 minutes.

Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS

• 10 walnuts, chopped
• 1 onion
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 cup chopped cabbage
• 1 cup  chopped lettuce
• 10 olives
• ½ lemon – juice it
• 1tsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup white beans, canned
• ½ cup corn, canned
• 1 small carrot
• 1 small red pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Rinse the corn and beans very well to reduce the salt content.
2. Chop the pepper, carrot, onion, cabbage, lettuce, olives and walnuts.
3. Place everything in a large mixing bowl. Squeeze lemon, add vinegar, minced garlic and olive oil - the salad should be salty enough, because of the beans, corn and olives, if you need add a little salt, just make sure to not overdo it - a little pinch should be enough