Daikon and Witlof Salad Recipe

Daikon and Witlof Salad Recipe

Raw daikon is rich in digestive enzymes, which makes it the perfect addition to any meal, especially for those with weak digestive systems. Another interesting vegetable, witlof will gently cleanse your body and improve your gut function. Daikon and witlof work wonderfully together to flush waste and toxins out of the body, support the detoxification process and enhance digestive function by stimulating bile production in the liver, which in turn helps in the digestion of fats.

Serves: 4

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Daikon and Witlof Salad Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

The daikon and witlof in this salad work wonderfully together to flush waste and toxins out of the body, support the detoxification process and enhance digestive function.


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Prep time

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Recipe


Ingredients

  • Dressing
  • 1 cup goat’s milk yoghurt
  • ½ cup tahini
  • Grated zest & juice 1 orange
  • 2 tbsp apple-cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp rice-malt syrup
or 6 drops liquid stevia
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • ½ tsp freshly grated ginger
  • ½ tsp ground turmeric
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • Pinch cayenne pepper

  • 4 cups grated or spiralised daikon
  • 2 witlofs (chicory/Belgian endives), chopped
  • 1 zucchini, 
grated or spiralised
  • Freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
  • Hazelnuts, chopped, to serve
  • Coriander leaves, chopped,
to serve
  • Mint, chopped, to serve

Method


  • Combine all dressing ingredients in bowl and whisk well. Refrigerate until ready to use.
  • Arrange vegetables on serving plates and pour over the dressing. Season with pepper, then top with hazelnuts, coriander and mint. Serve.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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