I love sprucing up a super easy salad with a delicious and also easy dressing! Making the dressing in a large batch ensures that you have an amazing and healthy dressing for the rest of the week at your fingertips.  I love making it in a big jar and storing it in the fridge. Arugula is such a crisp and delicious leaf and takes any normal salad up a notch. Added peppers give beautiful contrasting color and amazing antioxidants.  The star of healthy fats (avocado) and poached eggs complete the meal (this is great for Meatless Monday!)

Ginger is such an amazing way to get a boost of amazing health benefits and does wonders for digestion, nausea, ulcers and many more digestive issues. It has amazing properties that scoop up free radicals traveling around the body and acts as a major antioxidant.  Grating it into dressings like i did here, or adding it to smoothies and stir frys will surely be beneficial (and taste amazing).

Simple Arugula, Avocado & Egg Salad with a Ginger Dijon Dressing

Salad serves 1, Dressing makes about 1 cup for future use

Ingredients:

For the salad:

-2 cups of arugula
-1/2-1 avocado
-2 eggs
-4 mini peppers
-1/2 zucchini
-a few green olives

For the dressing:

-1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil
-1/3 cup of rice vinegar (or vinegar of choice)
-about 2 tbsp. of grated fresh ginger
-1/2 tsp. pink himalayan salt
-2 tsp. dijon mustard
-1/2 tsp. black pepper
-1/4 tsp. turmeric
-2 tsp. dried oregano

Method:

Start by boiling a pot of water, and crack in two eggs for poaching.  Allow to cook for about 3-4 minutes and then scoop out.  Set aside to cool. Slice the rest of the ingredients and place in a bowl with the argula. Add all of the dressing ingredients to a large jar and shake vigorously for about 1 minute, until it no longer separates.

Enjoy this amazingly easy salad for lunch or dinner (or even breakfast, I dare you). You’ll be feeling fresh and energized soon after and ready for whatever comes next.

Samantha xx