Taste the rainbow with this Rainbow Salad with Creamy Green Goddess Dressing. This Rainbow Salad Recipe is the perfect way to get more veggies into your diet every day!
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The dressing on this salad is literally famous! I make it for dinner parties and use it as a dip for charcuterie or a dressing for this rainbow salad and everyone loves it.
Rainbow Salad with Vegan Green Goddess Dressing
You’ll enjoy this Rainbow Salad with Vegan Green Goddess Dressing because it’s:
- Gluten Free
- Vegan
- Soy Free
- Dairy Free
- Paleo
- Raw Vegan
Ingredients For Rainbow Salad & Vegan Green Goddess Dressing
- Purple Cabbage
- Napa Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Broccoli
- Basil
- Parsley
- Garlic
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Tahini
- Mellow White Miso Paste
How to Make this Gluten Free Rainbow Salad
1. Boil 4 cups of salted water in a soup pot. Meanwhile, prepare vegetables by slicing with a knife or running them through a food processor. Blanch broccoli in boiling water for 4 minutes. Remove from water with a slotted spoon.
2. For the Dressing, combine ingredients in a high speed blender. Emulsify the mixture until it’s completely smooth. Assemble the salad by lining up ingredients in a bowl by color. Drizzle the salad with green goddess dressing and enjoy.
What Is A Rainbow Salad
A rainbow salad is a salad that has vegetables that represent every color of the rainbow including, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. It’s important to eat vegetables of all different colors because each color has different types of phytonutrients. By definition Phytonutrients are natural compounds found in vegetables, fruit, whole grains and legumes. They have beneficial effects working with other essential nutrients to promote overall good health.
- Red: Red vegetables include red cabbage, beets, beet microgreens, beets, tomatoes, red bell peppers, red chili peppers, radicchio and red leaf lettuce.
- Orange: Carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, butternut squash, orange bell peppers, oranges.
- Yellow: Spaghetti squash, zucchini, lemons, corn, yellow peppers, yellow potatoes, golden beets, yellow beans.
- Green: Lettuce, broccoli, microgreens, sprouts, kale, artichokes, green beans, orka, chard.
- Blue: Blueberries.
- Indigo: Concord grapes, purple cabbage, figs, purple carrots, eggplant and beluga lentils.
- Violet: Eggplant, shallots, purple onion, red onion, purple carrots and purple cauliflower.
Rainbow Salad Recipe Facts
The five types of salads include vegetable salad, fruit salad, grain salad, meat salad and seafood salads.
Mann’s rainbow salad is a mixture of prewashed and chopped veggies including Mix the colorful blend of broccoli, colorful carrots, red cabbage, kohlrabi, and cauliflower. It is free from preservatives.
The healthiest salad to east is a raw green leafy salad. Raw salads have tons of live enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Salad greens are also rich in chlorophyll which is a powerful blood builder.
Eating a salad every day will help you reach your daily recommended vitamin intake. As well as provide you with enough fiber to keep your digestive system healthy and bowls regular.
How to Store Rainbow Salad with Green Goddess Dressing
Fridge: The best way to store this healthy rainbow salad is to keep the vegetables in an airtight container in the fridge. And to keep the dressing in a separate Tupperware. like this reusable salad dressing container. If you store the salad with the dressing on it, it will get soggy.
Rainbow salad will last for up to one week in the fridge without the dressing on it. The dressing will last for a week in the fridge as well.
Freezer: This salad will not freeze well because it will become soggy. You can freeze the dressing in ice cube trays for perfect portion sizes. The dressing will last in the freezer for up to three months.
How to Serve Gluten Free Rainbow Salad
I like serving this salad in the beginning of a meal as an appetizer. It pairs well with other vegan grain free dishes such as chickpea tacos and sweet potato tacos.
Substitutions for Rainbow Salad
- Instead of Tahini – you can use avocado or sunflower butter.
- Instead of any of the vegetables you can use the following list of veggies to sub out. Choose one from each color to make a complete rainbow salad.
- Red: Red vegetables include red cabbage, beets, beet microgreens, beets, tomatoes, red bell peppers, red chili peppers, radicchio and red leaf lettuce.
- Orange: Carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, butternut squash, orange bell peppers, oranges.
- Yellow: Spaghetti squash, zucchini, lemons, corn, yellow peppers, yellow potatoes, golden beets, yellow beans.
- Green: Lettuce, broccoli, microgreens, sprouts, kale, artichokes, green beans, orka, chard.
- Blue: Blueberries.
- Indigo: Concord grapes, purple cabbage, figs, purple carrots, eggplant and beluga lentils.
- Violet: Eggplant, shallots, purple onion, red onion, purple carrots and purple cauliflower.
What is Green Goddess Dressing & What Does it Taste Like?
Green goddess dressing is a creamy salad dressing that is made from a combination of green herbs, mayonnaise or sour cream. It has the consistency of a caesar dressing or ranch. But it ‘s considered healthier since it has tons of fresh leafy greens in it. The flavor is tangy and mild.
I wanted to create a vegan green goddess dressing recipe so I simply swapped out the mayonnaise for a vegan ingredient that would be just as creamy as mayo. So I picked tahini! Tahini is gluten free, soy free, dairy free and sugar free.
Substitutions for Vegan Green Goddess Dressing
If you want to make vegan green goddess dressing, and don’t have tahini on hand you can use Avocado, vegan mayo or vegan sour cream. My first choice would be to use the avocado since it’s the healthiest option.
More Gluten Free Salad Dressing Recipes
More Gluten Free Salad Recipes
- Fall Harvest Salad
- Greek Dressing
- Raw Carapaccio with Manchengo
- Pressed Cabbage Salad
- Roasted Broccoli Salad with Corn and Microgreens
- Detox Cabbage and Carrot Salad
- For a list of the best summer salads check out this web story!
Rainbow Salad with Vegan Green Goddess Dressing
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ 1 Napa Cabbage sliced thin
- ½ 1 Purple Cabbage sliced thin
- 3 Carrots matchstick or shredded
- 1 Pint Cherry Tomatoes sliced in half
- 1 whole Head Broccoli sliced into bite-sized florets
- ½ C Basil fresh
- ½ C Parsley fresh
- 1 Garlic Clove
- ¼ C Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 C Tahini
- 1 C Water
- 2 T Mellow White Miso Paste (regular miso paste is fine)
- S/P to taste
Instructions
- Boil 4 cups of salted water in a soup pot. Meanwhile, prepare vegetables by slicing with a knife or running them through a food processor. Blanch broccoli in boiling water for 4 minutes. Remove from water with a slotted spoon.
- For the Dressing, combine ingredients in a high speed blender like vitamix. Emulsify until smooth. Assemble salad and enjoy with green goddess dressing.
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