Chopped Salad

I love salad for dinner. Big salads with lots of crunch. Texture is very important to me. I love crunch. An easy dinner or lunch is chopped salad. Whatever types of vegetables that you can cut into chunks with a homemade dressing, beans and sometimes a little avocado topping and you have a meal.

Red leaf lettuce cut into strips

1 carrot

1 mini cucumber

cherry tomatoes

1/4 red pepper cut into chunks

Red Cabbage cut into chunks

1/4 cup of chick peas, drained and rinsed

1/4 avocado

Dressing:

2 tbsp olive oil

4 tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 tbsp mustard, use a good one, nothing that comes in a squeeze bottle

fresh ground pepper

1 tsp herbs de provence

Options:

1 tbsp ground flax

1 tbsp hemp hearts

1 tbsp roasted, unsalted pumpkin seeds