This salad was inspired by DDD’s Raw Raw for Spring! Crimson Salad with Pecans and Pumpkin Seeds and by Ezmy’s use of pumpkin seeds here.
Salad: baby spinach, chickpeas, red onion, tomato, sauerkraut, nutritional yeast and sunflower/pumpkin seeds with lemon garlic vinaigrette.
The Herb and Spice recently started carrying “Go Raw” products which supposedly do not contain nuts, and in spite of their ridiculous price, I decided to pick up some sprouted pumpkin seeds. As Ezmy mentioned, pumpkin seeds are a fantastic source of Zinc. They are also a great source of protein, monounsaturated fat, Manganese and Magnesium. Many traditional medicines use pumpkin seeds for a variety of purposes.
- Aly
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VeggieGirl said,
April 1, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
YUM!!
Shelby said,
April 1, 2009 @ 8:34 pm
Wow that is so pretty!
Andrea said,
April 1, 2009 @ 9:30 pm
Very beautiful salad. It looks much better than the one I had for lunch!
Ricki said,
April 1, 2009 @ 9:53 pm
That salad is gorgeous! Love the colors, love the take on raw and pepitas! :)
Aly said,
April 2, 2009 @ 11:39 am
Aw, thanks! I was definitely inspired by the vibrant colours of your crimson salad!
Jodye said,
April 1, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
Looks delicious, I love pumpkin seeds!
Bianca- Vegan Crunk said,
April 2, 2009 @ 10:34 am
For some reason, the picture won’t show up in my browser. But it sounds wonderful. I didn’t even know you could sprout pumpkin seeds.
Aly said,
April 2, 2009 @ 10:51 am
Hm, I wonder what is wrong! I know that office firewalls frequently block Flickr.
foodfashionfun said,
April 2, 2009 @ 11:33 am
yummy! the salad looks spectacular! and thanks for your comment.. I actually need to excersize.. but I dont have time anymore:(
Aly said,
April 2, 2009 @ 11:39 am
Thanks everyone :)!
Carrie said,
April 2, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
That salad looks heavenly!
River (Wing-it Vegan) said,
April 3, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
Gorgeous salad! It’s so colorful and healthful! I’ve been craving chickpeas lately, I’ll take a bowl please! :D
shellyfish said,
April 5, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
A quickie but delicious and colorful, too!
mihl said,
April 6, 2009 @ 8:18 am
Pumpkin seed are definitely on my top three list of nuts and seeds!
cleanveggiex3 said,
April 7, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
looks delicious :)
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