I am crazy about winter salads lately, in the last weeks I ate everyday one. With beets, or brussels sprouts or carrots or sweet potatoes…Oh, sweet sweet potatoes! You know, a huge bowl of this salad and I feel happy. There are just so many tastes and textures in one bite, sweet, earthy, nutty, “cheesy”, spicy…
This miso dressing is very tasty and filling, one of my favorites. For me one teaspoon of miso works well, but if yours is very mild, you can use 1-2 tablespoon of it too. The nutritional yeast is also totally optional, but it gives a lovely cheesy flavor to the dressing. If you find this amount of dressing is too much for you, you can keep the leftover in an airtight box or jar for a few days in the fridge. It makes any simple salad special.
Sweet Potato and Apple Salad with Miso Dressing
- Total Time: 40 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes
- 1 green apple
- 1 can of chickpeas
- 2 large handful of mixed greens
- 1 handful of roasted almonds
- 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 1 tbsp pine nuts
- cinnamon, pepper, chili
- olive oil
- for the dressing:
- 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds (preferably soaked)
- 1/4 cup of cashews (preferably soaked)
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1 tsp miso of your choice
- 1 lime
- 1 tsp mustard
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- salt, pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Cut sweet potatoes into small cubes, drizzle a bit of olive oil on them and sprinkle cinnamon, chili and pepper on top. Bake them for about 30 minutes.
- For the dressing put everything in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
- Lay mixed greens on a plate, add warm sweet potatoes, thinly sliced apples and chickpeas, pour dressing over and top with roasted nuts and seeds. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Salad
This salad has so much going on, i would be scrambling to get the next best thing on my fork. Normally when i eat a salad, i try to ration my picks, not eat all the nuts at once for example, know what I mean?
No need to do that here 🙂
Yes, this salad has a lots of nuts and seeds! but I do the exact same normally. That is one of the reasons why I love chopped salads, I can get a bit of everything in each bite 🙂
This salad is beautiful Evi! It sounds so amazing and I love the use of miso in the dressing.
For a long time I’ve just bought some very strong and salty miso, I could have never imagined to use it in a dressing. But nowadays I use a milder one and it’s just so much more better for soups or dressings too! I love it!
I simply love all of your salads! I eat them a lot too. Yummy 🙂
Thanks, Josefine! I am so into salads too, especially the ones which are filling with a lots of nuts or avocado and roasted veggies 🙂
My goodness, this looks astonishing. I want to eat it right off the screen!
Thanks, Sam 🙂
Loved this! I replaced the cashews with sesame seeds. Thank you for the recipe.
I am so happy you liked it, Marla 🙂
Sesame seeds must be an awesome addition!