{"id":151998,"date":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracious-khorana.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/kale-white-bean-tempeh-detox-salad-with-avocado-quinoa\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T18:37:17","slug":"kale-white-bean-tempeh-detox-salad-with-avocado-quinoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2018\/01\/kale-white-bean-tempeh-detox-salad-with-avocado-quinoa.html","title":{"rendered":"Lemony Kale, White Bean, & Avocado Detox Salad with Charred Tempeh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Full dislcosure: we call this the Matt Salad. Or Malad for short. My husband whipped this up for our little team one afternoon while we were working at the Local Milk Studio (a.k.a. my house), and we were like \u201cdamn son!\u201d And so we tested it, codified it, stylified it, photofied it, and here it is! It\u2019s a great little detox salad for the new year full of whole, healthy ingredients, and it\u2019s ridiculously quick & easy to make. We\u2019re talking ten minutes flat. Five if you\u2019re a savvy meal planning babe with grains and legumes precooked on the ready.<\/p>\n

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So let me wax nutritional awesomeness about this salad for a minute:It\u2019s got hellah healthy fats from the avo & flax seed oil in the dressing (though you can use olive oil too\u2026no need to go buy flax seed oil just for this is if isn\u2019t something you\u2019d use on the reg!); loads of protein from tempeh, white beans, and quinoa; and the lovely array of vitamins in minerals in our old friend, kale. Kale might not be sexy, but it sure is ubiquitous & nutritious. So maybe the best part of this salad is that it brings kale\u2019s sexy back.<\/p>\n

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You could drop the quinoa and white beans to make it keto\/paleo\/whole 30 friendly if that\u2019s your January jam. It\u2019s vegan, dairy free, and gluten free too. It\u2019s a versatile little salad, so if you don\u2019t have white beans, you could use chickpeas, black beans, or your legume of choice instead. Same goes for the greens? Still not buying the idea that kale could every be sexy? Try collards, chard, or any other leathery green. The greens get a quick massage in the dressing to help break them down and make them tender so they aren\u2019t a rubbery mess. Out of quinoa? Hate quinoa? No problem. Substitute the whole grain of your choice or skip it entirely!<\/p>\n

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Best part? Make a big ol\u2019 bowl (I usually leave the avo off and add it last minute if I\u2019m doing this) and dish it up for lunch for a few days in different ways<\/p>\n

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