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The follicular phase is often associated with an increase in mood, this colorful and delicious salad is packed with the perfect ingredients to ensure your good mood is here to stay. This combination has become a staple in our house.

Chopped Salad

This colorful and delicious salad is packed with the perfect ingredients to ensure your good mood is here to stay.

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Serves: Lunch

Serves: 4

Phase: Follicular

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 10

Ingredients

Spinach
Arugula
Hardboiled egg
Radish
Cherry tomatoes
Carrots
Red Onion
Fire roasted corn

Instructions

In your emulstir salad dressing mixer or a small bowl, combine the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, minced garlic, salt, and pepper until well combined. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Chop the spinach and arugula into bite-sized pieces. Slice the radishes thinly. Halve the cherry tomatoes. Grate or thinly slice the carrot. Thinly slice the red onion. (or throw them on a big wooden cutting board and go to town chopping vertically and horizontally with a large chefs knife)
In a large salad bowl, combine the chopped spinach, chopped arugula, chopped hard boiled egg, sliced radishes, halved cherry tomatoes, grated carrot, sliced red onion, and fire roasted corn.
Drizzle the dressing over the salad ingredients in the bowl. Toss gently with salad tongs or two large spoons until everything is evenly coated with the dressing.
Serve with crumbled feta cheese or goat cheese if desired.