Spring is a great time to cleanse and nourish the LIVER. In Chinese medicine, each organ is associated with a Season. This detoxifying dandelion and fennel salad is sure to knock your socks off! Super, hydrating, refreshing and a natural digestive cocktail blend.
Love the Liver this Spring by making a Fennel and Dandelion salad. I can’t tell you how Delish this salad was. Super easy to make and your body will instantly feel revitalized. The liver has over 500 functions. A major filtration system to metabolize alcohol, drugs, balance sex hormones, adrenals, and thyroid health. This affects your energy, sleep, mood and much more.
Health Benefits of Dandelion and Fennel:
Dandelion has a gazillion benefits: Known to fight off herpes outbreak, fight off free radicals. Stimulates the digestive juices and helps to digest fats and supports the body’s natural detoxification processes. You can juice dandelion leaves, saute them or drink dandelion tea. Spring is the perfect time to consume dandelion.
Fennel is another form of food as medicine. Fennel has been used for natural remedies for decades. You typically want to peel the outer layer of fennel and thinly slice the inside. Feel free to use a sharp knife or slice using a mandoline slicer.
Fennel has been known to:
Improve digestion: Due to its fiber content, fennel helps promote regularity and prevent constipation.
Natural Form of Estrogen: Who would’ve thought that eating fennel helps balance your hormones. Estrogen is found naturally in fennel. Meaning, helps balance the female reproductive cycle and helps you lose weight and offset cravings naturally.
Weight Loss: Helps with bloating, cravings and the fiber once again helps to eliminate unwanted toxins and will leave you feeling satiated.
For more benefits on consuming Fennel click HERE.
Pixie Tangerines – Full of vitamin C, improve your mood and seedless too.
Salad topping: Seaweed GOMASIO (a blend of sesame seeds, seaweed and sea salt)…can you say LOVE the Thyroid?! This salad will love your Adrenals, Thyroid, Balance your Hormones and naturally detoxify you Liver. 🙂
Homemade Salad Dressing:
1/4 cup of cold pressed olive oil
1/4 cup of Braggs Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
pinch of Himalayan Salt (pink salt)
Squirt of organic mustard
1 teaspoon of raw honey
*Whisk the dressing in a glass mason jam jar and save the leftover dressing for future salads.
Please honor your body and try incorporating Seasonal produce that will love you organs, spirit and mind. You are what you eat and think! For more on balancing you hormones, mood and energy download my FREE E-Book HERE.
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Spring is the best time to cleanse naturally by eating food that loves you back. Dandelion is cleansing and Fennel is great for your digestive system, balancing hormones and more. This salad is easy to make and will leave you feeling satiated.
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- 1 Bulb Fennel Remove the outer layer and core
- 8-10 Leaves Dandelion Use the leave and chop
- 1 Pixie Mandarin Peel and chop in half
- 1/4 cup olive oil cold pressed
- 1/4 cup Braggs Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Organic Dijon Mustart To tase
- 1/4 tsp Himalayan Pink Salt
- 1/2 Orange Juice Fresh Squeezed - optional
- 1 tsp Raw Honey To taste
- Start off by chopping and slicing your fennel and dandelion. Second, peel the mandarine, slice in sections. Mix all ingredients in a bowl and top off by adding the salad dressing. Garnish with fennel leaves.
Start off by chopping and slicing your fennel and dandelion. Second, peel the mandarine, slice in sections.
You will want to remove the outer layer on the fennel and the core of the fennel. Make sure the dandelion is washed well as it can be gritty. Thinly slice your fennel bulb.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and top off by adding the salad dressing. Garnish with fennel leaves.
This Salad is absolutely WONDERFUL! I was beginning to get bored with the same salad and I usually only juice dandelion because it’s so bitter but the fennel made it so much better. I think dandelion is my new favorite green. Thank you so much!