Hey, guys, life is no yoke.
Today we're making the easy and fresh filling,
wonderfully addicting detox salad.
It gets you that, well, what food scientists,
junk food creators call the bliss point.
More on that in a second.
First, let's make it
For all the chopping we're going to do.
You can use a food processor, you can shop by hand.
We're using the Vitamix because that's what we do around here.
One of the benefits to having one of the Low-profile 64 ounce containers,
you can do more. It's easier.
It's great for making detox salad.
So we're going to take carrots, cauliflower, cabbage and kale
and chop them up into coarsly-chopped small pieces.
That's the essence of it.
If you are using the Vitamix, fill the container with small-ish sized pieces.
If it's bigger than the palm of your hand,
it's probably too big, except for maybe the carrots --
you could put the whole carrot sticks in there.
Those work really well. And they all work really nicely
because these are hard vegetables.
It's really easy to chop them up
and they kind of bounce around the container.
So use Variable Speed One
We're using the pulse button.
This kind of helps us just prevent over-processing.
But if you don't have a pulse button,
just variable speed one for a few seconds.
The key is to not do too much at a time.
About a third of the container full is about the right amount.
Any more than that, you kind of get unevenly processed,
too finely chopped pieces at the bottom.
So we are going to use a tamper.
It helps kind of move things around.
The pieces bounce off of it.
It just, the tamper just really helps here.
So again, we're doing the carrots.
We're doing the cauliflower.
We're doing the cabbage and the kale and making this look easy.
And it is easy. I can tell you how many times Shalva's said,
"OK. I just made detox salad. I just love how easy it is to make
and then how easy it is to clean up."
You don't have to clean the container in between each blend
because it's all getting mixed together anyway.
Once everything's coarsely chopped. Mix it all together.
If you have a rabbit, put some of this in their bowl.
If you have a child or a friend you want to impress,
try one of these dressings
In the original Detox Salad recipe tutorial
and on our website, we have this wonderful Citrus Avocado dressing.
Here's how you make that.
That's a quarter cup of apple cider vinegar.
One avocado, half a lemon peeled, half a lime peeled.
Two tablespoons of fresh ginger--that looks about right.
A date for sweetness and salt and pepper to taste.
You mix that all together and you have this
perfect dressing for this detox salad.
Lately, we've been doing kind of a shortcut version,
which might be just as good.
Sunflower seeds, raisins, and equal parts balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil.
If you're whole-food plant-based just,
throw some avocado instead of the oil.
No matter what dressing you use, the sunflower seeds
and the raisins are great with this
Mix it all together server. Believe it or not, children really like this.
It's crunchy, it's filling. It's flavorful.
And like I said in the beginning, it hits that bliss point.
Bliss point is what food scientists that work for junk food companies
aim for. That curious balance of many different flavors
like Dr. Pepper and Doritos. It's something that fires your brain
in a lot of different places and keeps you coming back.
You never get sick of all of the flavors together.
And that's the beauty of this. This detox out is addicting,
like the junk food that's made him laboratories.
But it's so good for you, fills you up, doesn't make you feel full.
Gives you energy. You know, the whole thing.
Detox, baby, it's so good.
Get in the habit of making this on Mondays
after a long weekend of indulging.
Just kind of makes you feel good.
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Hi, guys. I want to give you a few tips and tricks
about this detox salad,
since we've been making it every week for like three years,
we've have a few things that work really well.
The first is to serve it in a glass bowl.
When you put it in an opaque container,
you forget that it's in the fridge.
If it's in glass. It looks delicious.
The second thing is that you don't want to pre-dress the salad.
Have the dressing in the salad separate
because it gets kind of icky if you dress it
and leave it for too long.
Another thing that we've noticed after doing this
for a really long time is that we used to make
a huge batch of this.
A full cauliflower, a full thing of cabbage.
And by day five, six, seven. It's just really unappetizing now.
So make a smaller batch. You'll end up eating more of it
if you make a smaller batch.
Another thing I like to do is keep the toppings for this salad
out on my counter.
So we put raisins and sunflower seeds in the salad,
but they don't taste as good if they've been sitting
in the salad for two or three days.
The salad lasts really, really well for a few days,
but it tastes better if you can put those crunchy little bits in later.
So I leave the raisin sunflower seeds out on my counter.
The most helpful thing I think for this salad,
which we lovingly call in our house Mama Salad
is that sometimes I don't have time or the ingredients
to make the avocado dressing.
The avocado dressing is so good,
but it's extra most of the time.
I'd say nine -- can you hear my kid talking?
Nine out of ten times that we make the salad,
I don't make the dressing.
I just make the ingredients for the core salad.
And then I dress it with a little bit of olive oil
and a little bit of balsamic vinegar.
One of the things that I love about this particular recipe is that,
first of all, I just stock the ingredients every week.
So these things are always in our fridge.
But if someone comes to our house,
they know that we love to cook.
They're not expecting to be fired.
But it's a nice treat if they are.
And this is one of those things that I just end up throwing together.
I had a friend come in from New York
and she sat at our counter and I said, coffee, detox, salad?
And that just seemed kind of natural.
And she was so excited to have something healthy
and filling right after she got off the airplane.
So I've ended up doing that several times.
My mom will come over to watch the kids.
And I'll say it just made a fresh batch, a detox salad.
Feel free to go at it.
The other thing is that this salad is really good on its own
as a meal, especially if you can add some protein.
A lot of times Lenny will just dump some chickpeas
on top that then add some protein.
It makes it a complete meal.
But also a lot of times I serve it on the side
so I'll have some soup and the detox salad,
a sandwich with the detox salad on the side.
Our sisters make this weekly now too.
It's just one of those things that's so good
to have in the fridge all the time.
Once we all go back to work someday,
it's an excellent thing to pack with you.
You don't have to heat it or quit.
It can be room temperature and it keeps really,
really well in the fridge. So enjoy our momma salad.
Go. You're doing the tamper. No. You doing the tamper.
So good.
Well done. Yeah. It's perfect. I want to show it go Dada.
Show it! Perfect! Thank you.
All right. Mama's going to dump it in a bowl.
Me scrape. You're going to scrape? Okay.
Are we going to blend somethign else again?
Yes. All the ingredients. Good job. You're such a good scraper.
I had no idea. Mama turn.
I like this one. I like this one too.
Are you doing the tamper the button? The tamper!
Ready? Thank you. Good waiting.
All right, do it. You ready? Tamper?
More. Good job. Show Dada? Yup!
What color is this? No, try again.
Purple. Purple! In... In... All of it, yeah.
It can go in in a big chunk like that.
Just put that whole thing in.
The whole big thing can go in.
Dump it.
The whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. And this is awesome. All done. Top on.
We.
Get the tamper. Ready go.
Perfect. Wait, a llittle more. Tamper in.
You gotta dump this.
Can I have one? Can you have some?
Those are some kind of bigger pieces, but that's OK.
Show us.
You're using cause. He was not thrilled.
Kind of morning.
Oh, yeah, that one is a key. Well, I just had some brown spots on it, so I didn't eat it.
Last one's.
You doing tamper or button?
And that was the last ingredient.
Wait, wait, wait. I'd like to scrape it, please. All right.
Good job. OK. Climbing on up
Helpers listen.
You're right. Helpers listen.
Ready to help? What do we making?
Mama salad? What else? Dressing.
All right. So you guys go make some Detox Salad,
some Mamá Salad and some dressing.
Are you Olaf? Olaf!
Is Mama Olaf? Let's rinse that one because it was on my face.