Say goodbye to boring salads and give your lunch box a tasty and colorful makeover. This Green Peach Blueberry Salad combines sweet and savory ingredients that celebrate the bounty of the summer harvest. Plus, it’s packed with vegetable goodness to feed you from within. Sound exciting? Let’s do it!
If you thought peaches were just for fruit salads, smoothies, and casseroles, you haven’t tried grilled peaches! Charred nectarines are tender and slightly sweet and pair beautifully with green salads. At first bite, they even taste a bit like cheese because the grilling caramelizes the sugar while bringing out a smoky flavor.
In the summer season, peaches are easy to find, cheap, and taste much better. You can swap them out for nectarines, which are basically the same fruit but without the furry skin. And when you use nectarines, you don’t have to peel them, which means less work and more fibers for you!
We paired peaches with another summer fruit: fresh blueberries. We have already used them in another salad recipe for a blueberry dressing. And we loved the combination so much that we decided to add blueberries to this recipe as well. be very little sugar and therefore not too sweet, blueberries go well in savory recipes such as green salads. They also have an incredibly high salary free radical-fighting antioxidants — one more reason to eat more of it!
For the base, we mixed fresh baby spinach with thinly sliced ​​red onions, chopped walnuts, and cooked broad beans. These ingredients enrich the recipe with valuable plant nutrients: proteins from the beans, Omega 3 from walnuts and Iron, calcium, vitamins A, C and K from spinach.
We love this recipe for its unique combination of flavors and textures: sweet and savory, fresh and warm, soft and crunchy. And the good news is that it’s low in calories too less than 280 kcal per bowl. Nevertheless, each portion packs a whopping 50% of your daily fiber, 25% proteinsAnd 20% healthy unsaturated fats. So pair it with a slice of sourdough bread, some seeded crackers, or gluten-free quinoa flatbread for a lunch box you’ll look forward to!