Vegan Guava Salad

 

Are you looking for a recipe to fuse in guavas? then you may want to try this Crunchy and Protein rich, Chilled Guava Salad. 

Soft guava chunks gives the sweet fruity taste in every bite, crunch comes from the cucumber and addition of seeds and almond oil gives a nutty taste to the salad, making it filling and very yummy. isn't this a healthy way to munch on between meals.

 I have a guava tree in my front yard and every 2 days I get to pluck 4-6 half ripe fruit. If we do not pluck them, and leave to ripen fully, birds and squirrels eat them up. So I leave 2 or 3 guavas for the cute friends and pluck others for us.

I was going through my vegetable basket, while thinking for ideas of what to make for breakfast this morning. I Saw some red  and juicy tomatoes and yellowish soft guavas sitting there. I instantly thought of preparing a hearty salad with a zingy salad dressing which will be also protein rich.

The salad came out very nice, I liked the slight sweetness in each bite coming from raisins and guava, crunchiness from pomegranate, cucumber and capsicum. Thank God!! That I added Pumpkin seeds and flax meal, the seeds coated in salad dressing tasted divine. I have decided to add more pumpkin seeds next time when I make a salad like this one. 

Vegan Guava Salad

RECIPE

Serves: 2

Prep time: 5 minutes 

Cook time: none

Tools Needed: mixing bowl

INGREDIENTS 

Guava fruit 2 nos.

Tomato 1 nos.

Cucumber 2 nos.

Capsicum 1 nos.

Pomegranate arils 1/4 cup

Pumpkin seeds 2 tbsp

Flax meal 1/2 tsp, heaped

Himalayan salt to taste

Black pepper powder 1/4 tsp

Olive oil 1 tsp 

Almond oil 1 tsp

Mint leaves 5-7

Lemon juice 1 tsp

Golden raisins 1 tbsp

Black raisins 1 tbsp

METHOD

To make flax meal, roast 1/4 cup flax seeds in a pan for 3-5 minutes. You will hear them splutter. Switch off flame and let seeds cool for few minutes. Ground to coarse or fine powder. Store in airtight clean container.

Wash guava, cucumber, tomato and capsicum.

Peel and chop Cucumber and guavas into chunky pieces. Chop capsicum and tomato in small cubes.

To a small bowl take both oils, add salt, flax meal, pepper powder and lemon juice. Mix well.

In a salad bowl put chopped guava, cucumber, capsicum, tomato.

Also add pomegranate arils, pumpkin seeds, mint leaves, golden and black raisins.

Add the prepared salad dressing and toss well so everything is well coated.

Keep in refrigerator till serving time.

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