This French Green Lentil Detox Salad is packed full of detoxifying ingredients like beets, cabbage, and parsley.  It’s a great way to renew and rejuvenate your body naturally. 

Forget your standard salad and kick it up with color and plant-based protein.  Aside from being fun, this salad has another benefit in that it offers naturally detoxifying ingredients, such as:

Lentils are packed with fiber, protein, and minerals. French lentils are a blood-sugar-stabilizing and heart-healthy energy source.  In this recipe, I used Farmer Direct Co-op‘s lentils.  I love that they’re all organic, fair deal, and farmer-owned!

Cabbage is filled with vitamin k, vitamin c, and manganese.  It is also a cholesterol-lowering, digestion-friendly vegetable.

Beets are a high-antioxidant vegetable that contains a number of nutrients that have been shown to be cleansing and detoxifying.

Parsley is an excellent source of flavonoid antioxidants.  The leaf helps improve digestion and acts as a natural diuretic to help to relieve bloating.  For the ladies, parsley has antibacterial properties and may help fight urinary tract infections.  Translation: it’s good for you lady parts.

I used my Asian inspired recipe for eggplant “bacon” to top this salad.  By finishing it off under broil, I crisped it up more to give it a crouton-like crunch.  (Watch it VERY closely on under the broiler!)

The salad was a great make-ahead lunch.  I loved the stay-power the lentils gave it and the fact that this giant bowl didn’t make me crash.

Lemon-olive oil vinaigrette gave it a bright taste, and the citrus was delish with the beets.  The dressing is calcium-rich thanks to tahini, and it contains lemon, which is known for its cleansing properties within the body.

Those beets were both Vegas’s and my favorite part.  It was my first time roasting my own and let me tell you it makes a HUGE difference.  The earthy, slightly sweet flavor was unlike any other I’ve had.  Some good advice for roasting them yourself: cook until you think it’s done, and then cook for 30 more mins.

Top it with some nutritional yeast and you’ve got a colorful, unexpectedly hearty salad!

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Do you ever make “alternative” salads?  

What is your favorite way to detox?