- prep: 30 min
- cook: 15 min
- total: 45 min
Summary
Reset with this healthy beet salad recipe featuring superfoods like carrot, quinoa, spinach, edamame and avocado. It's as colorful as it is nutritious! Recipe yields two meal-sized salads or four side salads. If you plan on having leftovers, store the greens separately from the other prepared ingredients and toss just before serving.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup uncooked quinoa, rinsed
- 1 cup frozen organic edamame
- 1/3 cup slivered almonds or pepitas (green pumpkin seeds)
- 1 medium raw beet, peeled
- 1 medium-to-large carrot (or 1 additional medium beet), peeled
- 2 cups packed baby spinach or arugula, roughly chopped
- 1 avocado, cubed
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint or cilantro
- 2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup or agave nectar
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 2
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 441 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 25 g 38.45%
- Saturated Fat: 3 g 14.23%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 0 mg 0%
- Sodium: 379 mg 15.78%
- Calcium: 116 mg 11.59%
- Potassium: 429 mg 12.27%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 3 mg 16.14%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 46 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 6 g 22.06%
- Sugar: 14 g
- Protein: 10 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 5 g
- Vitamin A 9%
- Vitamin C 6.88%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat4
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs1
- Exchange - Starch2
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total2 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total1 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total1 oz-eq