Healthy little vegan

Sweet rice vinegar dressing

I make and eat salads every day and I’m hoping to find one thats perfect, but there’s to many choices so I have multiple favorites!

This dressing uses extra virgin olive oil, rice vinegar, garlic powder, sea salt, and black pepper. It’s very simple and easy to make! Most of the ingredients are at hand.

All the credit for this dressing goes to my mom who made the dressing and I posted and wrote down her recipe.

Ingredients

Category: Italian/ American

Serves: 2-3

The dressing

Equal parts of extra virgin olive oil and rice vinegar.

Garlic powder as needed.

Sea salt and black pepper to taste.

Dried oregano.

DIRECTIONS

Stir well before drizzling over a salad.

The salad

Crumbled Goat cheese.

Blackberries.

Grapefruit segments.

Chopped romaine or bib lettuce.

1 carrot strip.

DIRECTIONS

toss and arrange as desired. Drizzle the dressing over top.

Fennel, tangerine, and black olive salad

Fennel, black olives, tangerines, apple, olive oil, and cilantro flowers mixed together in this flavorful and vibrant salad!

Fennel smells like a sweet licorice, but its taste is mild and celery like. Tangerine mixed with fennel makes this salad all the better!

Ingredients

Category: greek/american

Serves: 4-6

The white bulb or 1 fennel chopped.

Fennel leaves as needed.

1 tangerine peeled.

Juice and zest of 1 tangerine.

Sliced black olives.

2 tbsp white vinegar.

3-4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.

1/2 an apple thinly sliced.

Sea salt and black pepper to taste.

Cilantro flowers (optional).

Italian herb blend to taste.

DIRECTIONS

Toss and serve with a smudge of dijon mustard if desired.

5 ingredient Blueberry nut smoothie bowl

just five simple ingredients to make this delicious blueberry nut smoothie bowl! Frozen blueberries, frozen cabernet grapes, oats, coconut milk, and coconut flakes.

Why this smoothie bowl is so good!

Its…

Vegan.

Gluten free.

Dairy free.

Soy free.

Ingredients

Category: American

Serves: 1

1/4 cup gluten free oats.

1/2 cup frozen wild blueberries.

1/4 cup cabernet grapes.

1/2 cup coconut milk.

2-3 tbsp coconut flakes.

DIRECTIONS

Blend until smooth.

Toppings

Chia seeds.

Sliced blackberries.

Walnuts (optional).

Pecans (optional).

Gluten free oats.

Honey dijon dressing

Greek yogurt,olive oil,dijon mustard,honey,lemon juice,and some apple cider vinegar blended together then drizzled over a delightful salad!

It’s hardto get mustard to taste good in dressing, but this is definitely a good one!

Make it dairy free

Use dairy free yogurt or if you dont have yogurt use sour cream!

Ingredients

Category: American

Serves: 1 per salad and 2-3 per dressing

The dressing

1/4 cup greek yogurt.

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.

1/2 a garlic clove minced.

2 tbsp dijon mustard.

Honey to taste.

Sea salt and black pepper to taste.

1 tbsp lemon juice.

1 tbsp apple cider vinegar.

DIRECTIONS

Blend until smooth.

The salad

Avocado slices.

chopped romaine lettuce.

Sliced carrots.

Sliced celery.

Thyme to garnish.

Parsley to garnish.

DIRECTIONS

Toss and arrange as desired. Drizzle with the dressing.

DIY pitas

Pitas stuffed with carrots, celery, black olives, olive oil, farmer cheese, and a delicous juicy beef burger! If you vegan then I recommend using a veggie burger.

For some reason when you have a table full of different combinations that you can fill you plate up with it makes you want to start asap (and it makes you way more hungry!😋

Vegan

use veggie burgers or leave out the burger part completely!

Dairy free

leave ut the farmer cheese and greek yogurt or use dairy free yogurt and goat or sheep cheese!

Ingredients

Category: greek/american

Makes: 8 pitas

4 thick fully cooked burger patties cut in half.

8 pita pockets.

Chopped celery.

Chopped carrots.

Black olives.

Sliced avocado.

Lime wedges.

Chopped lettuce.

Greek yogurt.

Extra virgin olive oil.

Farmer cheese or feta.

all the ingredients ready to be stuffed in a pita!

DIRECTIONS

Fill you pita up with whatever ingredients you want!

Other add ins

Mustard.

Cilantro.

Green goddess dressing.

Cerry tomatoes.

Hummus.

sliced Colby Jack cheese or cheese of choice.

Anything else you like!

Avocado green goddess dressing

A changed up version or original green goddess dressing that tastes like a herb filled yogurt that you could eat by the spoonful!

Avocado,greek yogurt,almond milk,parsley,thyme,rosemary,sage, leek,and basil blended together to make a smooth dressing to serve a top any salad you like!

the sala with the avocado green goddess dressing

Ingredients

Category: greek

Serves: 1 per salad and about 3-4 per dressing

The dressing

3/4 of an avocado.

1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk.

4 heaping tbsp greek yogurt.

1 small bunch parsley stem and all.

Thyme sprigs.

Rosemary sprigs.

Sage to taste.

Leek chopped about 1 tbsp.

2-3 tbsp balsamic vinegar.

Basil sprigs.

Sea salt and black pepper to taste.

Chive or scallion flowers to garnish if desired.

DIRECTIONS

Blend until smooth.

The salad

Chopped romaine lettuce.

Sliced carrots.

Goat cheese.

Walnuts (optional).

Chopped basil.

Grapefruit segments.

DIRECTIONS

Toss and arrange as desired. Top with the dressing.

Instead of a dressing Use as a delightful dip or eat by the spoonful as a herb slightly savory yogurt!

Vegan pancakes

fluffy vegan pancakes topped with pomegranate, chocolate chips,honey,walnuts,nut butter,and blackberries! So good you might not eat them only for breakfast!

Pancakes are easy to make with simple ingredients so they can be changed up quite a bit. If you dont have oat flour use what you do have!

These pancakes have unlimited toppings!

Ingredients

Category: American

Makes: 12 pancakes

3 cups oat flour (or 2 1/2 cups oat flour and 1/2 cup spelt).

4 tbsp sugar.

Pinch of sea salt.

2 cups almond milk (or dairy free milk).

2 tbsp dairy free milk with lemon juice.

2 tsp vanilla.

oill for the pan (I used coconut oil).

DIRECTIONS

Heat a pan to medium high heat. Put oil in the pan and pour a small amount of the pancake batter in the pan. Flip when bubbles appear. When golden brown put on a plate,top with desired ingredients,and enjoy!

Toppings…..

ppomegranate seeds.

Honey.

Maple syrup.

Chocolate syrup.

Chocolate chips.

Nut butter with some coconut oil.

Fruit.

Nuts (I used walnuts).

Dairy free whip cream.

Enjoy!

Acai bowl

Acai puree,banana,almond milk,mixed berries,and coconut flakes.

Frozen acai puree can be found at most grocery stores and is not only delicous,but full of health benefits!

Ingredients

Cateory: american

Serves: 1

1 small individual packet of frozen acai puree.

1 banana.

1/4 cup almond milk or non-dairy milk.

1/2 cup frozen mixed fruit.

2-3 tbsp coconut flakes.

DIRECTIONS

Blend until smooth.

Toppings

Gluten free oats.

Chia seeds.

Coconut flakes.

Walnuts or any other nuts.

Nut butter with coconut oil.

Exotic smoothie bowl

Frozen dragon fruit,raspberries,cabernet grapes,almond milk,banana,coconut flakes,wild blueberries.

Exotic fruit is so fun to work with and tastes so good and unusual! Not only is exotic fruit good it’s full of health benefits!

The best things of this bowl

Its…

Delicous!

Gluten free.

Dairy free.

Soy free.

No added fillers.

Ingredients

Category: American

Serves: 2-3

1/2 cup frozen dragon fruit.

1/4 cup frozen raspberries.

1/4 cup frozen cabernet grapes or bluberries.

1 cup almond milk.

1/2 cup frozen wild blueberries.

1 banana very ripe.

DIRECTIONS

Blend until smooth.

Toppings

Sliced blackberries.

Granola.

Chia seeds.

Frozen Dragon fruit chunks.

Mint.

Nut butter with some coconut oil.

Coconut flakes.

Walnuts.

Passion fruit juice (I used fresh) optional.

Balsamic watermelon salad

Freshly sliced watermelon,farmer cheese,carrots,and sliced celery drizzled with balsamic dressing.

watermelon pairs so well with balsamic vinegar and farmer or feta cheese.

Make it dairy free

Leave out the farmer cheese or use goat or sheeps cheese instead.

Ingredients

Category: greek/American

Serves:1-2

The dressing

3 tbsp balsamic vinegar.

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.

Chopped parsley stem and all.

Chopped sage.

Chopped leek as needed.

Chopped rosemary.

Chopped basil.

Sea salt and black pepper to taste.

Garlic powder to taste.

DIRECTIONS

Stir well.

The salad

Chopped romaine lettuce.

Chopped carrots.

Chopped celery.

Farmer or feta cheese.

Watermelon chopped.

DIRECTIONS

Toss and drizzle with the salad dressing.