Dinner-Worthy Salads Spotlight: 4 Delicious, Healthy, and Filling Salads!

Dinner-Worthy Salads

A dinner-worthy salad needs to be three things: healthy, delicious, and most-importantly, filling! We’ve rounded up our picks for dinner-worthy salads from some of our favorite spas. Check them out here!

Golden Door’s Baby Beet Salad with Goat Cheese, Almonds, and Watercress

Available all year long (but served in their peak from June-October) beets offer a great dose of folate (30 percent of your daily need in just one cup of raw beets!) and they are also rich in phytonutrients called betalains, which offer offer antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxification support. So it’s no wonder Golden Door Spa’s Executive Chef suggested their Baby Beet Salad with Goat Cheese, Almonds, and Watercress (a great superfood!) for our Dinner Worthy Salads round-up!

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Golden Door’s Kale Salad with Salted Pine Nuts, Avocado, Kohlrabi, and a Golden Raisin Vinaigrette

When it comes to trendy greens kale tops the list. Kale, which is low in calories, high in fiber, and has no fat is perfect for detoxing and has impressive anti-inflammatory properties as well – not to mention, it fills you up! This is why it’s the perfect fit for our Dinner-Worthy Salads Spotlight. Golden Door’s Kale Salad with salted pine nuts, avocado, kohlrabi, and a golden raisin vinaigrette comes to us from the destination spa’s Executive Chef.

Get the recipe here!

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Kim Cooke’s “The Dressing Free Salad”

Acqualina Spa by ESPA’s Lead Therapist Kim Cooke’s favorite salad is “The Dressing Free Salad”. In a medium-size bowl, place chopped Romaine, fresh arugula, fresh chopped dill. Then add finely diced celery, thin slices of radish, slices of cucumbers, and cherry tomatoes halves. Add dried cranberry, chopped walnuts, fresh pear, goat cheese, and lime juice. It’s definitely a favorite at any dinner party and the first bowl to be emptied. Bon Appetit!

Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa’s Toasted Quinoa and Seasonal Vegetable Salad

Quinoa, an ancient “grain” native to South America, is power-packed with protein! All nine essential amino acids necessary for tissue growth and repair are found in quinoa which makes it perfect for a dinner-worthy salad! Chef Eric Bauer of Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa shares his recipe for a dinner-worthy Toasted Quinoa and Seasonal Vegetable Salad!

Get the recipe here!

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