This superfood bowl with mint pesto says spring to me. It’s filling yet light, healthy, full of raw food goodness and is naturally gluten-free.
I don’t use the term ‘superfood’ very often as, having worked in advertising for years, I’m aware that calling certain foods ‘superfoods’ is simply a marketing ploy to offload overpriced, sometimes exotic, ingredients to the unsuspecting public looking for a miracle fix. Sadly no amount of mung bean sprouts in my lunch today will compensate for one too many chocolate brownies I hoovered up the day before. Although…hang on, isn’t chocolate a superfood too?! 🙂 . I did call this salad bowl a superfood bowl in a much broader sense. It contains a beautiful balance of fresh, natural, seasonal ingredients that will definitely improve the way you feel if you include them on your menu on a regular basis. Maybe it’s just health conscious me, but eating such a variety of fresh produce, colours and textures for lunch somehow makes me feel more alive! It gives me a little edge of nutritional superpower!
leaves from 5 springs of mint, roughly chopped 1 small garlic clove 1 tbsp / 15 ml lime or lemon juice 10 almonds, roughly chopped pinch of coarse salt pepper, to taste 4 tbsp / 60 ml extra virgin olive oil
