Last Updated on April 15, 2022 by Karen

This delicious Superfood Salad Bowl is loaded with good-for-you ingredients such as avocado, corn, beets, and baby spinach tossed in a creamy lemon tahini dressing – light yet hearty enough for lunch or dinner!

Lately, especially after returning home from recent summer travels, I crave healthy dishes loaded with vegetables and whole grains to help my body reset. l’m doing my best to get back into healthy summer eating and this Superfood Salad Bowl totally hits the spot!

I love salad and grain bowls, and this Superfood Salad Bowl with Lemon Tahini Dressing is a recent creation which combines healthy and flavorful ingredients in a light-yet-filling meal, that’s bursting with satisfying flavors and textures. I’m happy serving the salad as a light lunch or dinner, and sometimes I’ll top with grilled chicken or shrimp for a more substantial meal.

I’m all about mixing in as many superfood ingredients as possible into my bowls, so I worked my favorites into the salad.

Here’s what went into the salad:

Baby spinach and arugula
Beets — I used to eat beets only when they’re cooked, but now really enjoy the crunch and earthy flavors of raw beets
Avocado — I LOVE avocados and can pretty much eat avocado toasts every day << check out my tutorial post on making the perfect Avocado Egg Toasts)
Lentils
Quinoa
Garlic

This creamy and delicious lemon tahini dressing is light and zippy, perfect in this salad – it works well as a dip for chopped veggies too! It’s made with just a few simple ingredients like apple cider vinegar, tahini, honey, and lemon. If you’ve never used tahini before, it is a thick paste of ground sesame seeds which can be found in the Middle Eastern food section of large supermarkets or near other nut butters.

I could eat this every single day. In fact, I prepped everything for these delicious salad bowls at the beginning of the week so that I could have healthy, satisfying meals all week long.

This delicious salad is loaded with superfood ingredients such as avocado, corn, beets, and baby spinach tossed in a creamy lemon tahini dressing - light yet hearty enough for lunch or dinner!

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Superfood Salad Bowl with Lemon Tahini Dressing

This delicious salad is loaded with superfood ingredients such as avocado, corn, beets, and baby spinach tossed in a creamy lemon tahini dressing - light yet hearty enough for lunch or dinner!

Servings 4

Author Karen @ The Tasty Bite

Ingredients

For the lemon tahini dressing:

2 tsps fresh lemon juice
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup tahini
2 tbsps olive oil
1 garlic clove minced
1 tbsp honey
1/2 tsp cumin
Salt and pepper to taste

For the salad:

8 cups baby spinach and arugula mix
1 medium beet peeled and thinly sliced
2 ears fresh com shucked
1 ripe haas avocado sliced
2 cups cooked Village Harvest Antioxidant Blend black rice, black lentils, black quinoa

Instructions

Combine lemon juice, vinegar, water, tahini, olive oil, garlic, honey, and cumin in a blender and blend for 30 seconds. Season with salt and pepper to taste and blend until smooth.
Arrange salad ingredients in bowls. Drizzle with lemon tahini dressing and toss until evenly coated. Serve immediately.

Notes

Salad dressing can be made ahead, just cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

I am excited to be partnering with Village Harvest and incorporating into this recipe their organic Benefit Antioxidant Blend, which offers a distinctive combination of healthful goodness. I love that it combines quinoa, lentils, and black rice for a protein packed addition to my salad bowls.

Village Harvest defines social sustainability to not only mean caring for our planet but also the workers that help to bring whole, healthy grains to your door.

1% of their profits has been pledged to run programs that give back to the farmers and local communities from which they source their products.
Village Harvest has also pledged to donate 1% of their employees’ time to charitable causes and sustainability efforts.

Can’t find Village Harvest Organic Benefit Blends at your local store? You can use this product request form to make a request. There’s also a new Village Harvest online shop that you can visit, where you can purchase the three Benefit Blends varieties: Organic Antioxidant Blend, Organic Ancient Grain Blend and Organic Protein Blend. I hope you get to try them in this recipe soon!