Post Workout Salad: Cherry Tomato, Chickpea, Avocado Salad with Homemade Italian Dressing
The beautiful simplicity of fresh ingredients. Inspired by the Italian cuisine and their love for simple, fresh flavors I made this yummy and easy salad yesterday after coming back from the gym. Though chickpeas aren't very Italian, they are one of my family's favorite sources of protein.
While I haven't talked much about our workout routine, every day (except Sunday) my hubby and I break up our day and go to the gym for about an hour of exercise followed by 30 minutes of relaxing in the sauna and steam bath. As you may or may not know we get up around 5 am. Since we work at home that's also kinda the time we start working. Around 10 am we both feel it's time for a break and go to the gym, make lunch and get ready for another half day of work.
Just as eating healthy foods, our body craves movement. Though your body needs a resting day too, every Sunday we kinda miss our exercising ritual. Strange isn't it how your body turns these things into habits and misses it when you skip a day. Kinda like not having one of my green smoothies a day.
But let's get back to the salad. After going to the gym we always feel so hungry, which is a sign of our body letting us know that we need to stock up on healthy fats, protein, carbs, vitamins, and minerals to give us the energy we need to tackle the rest of the day.
Proteins are important to build and repair tissues and build musle. Healthy fats are a great source of energy and help absorb the fat soluble vitamins. Carbs are another main source of energy. And vitamin and minerals are what they call trace elements involved in some many critical functions and chemical process in our body.
And this salad has it all... making it the ideal post-workout lunch to replenish our vital nutrients.
Ingredients
For the Italian dressing
1 tbsp mustard ( I used Dijon grain mustard)
1 tsp maple syrup or honey
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1/2 tsp dried rosemary
Sea salt and black pepper to taste
For the salad
1 cubed avocado
1 cup halved cherry tomato halved
3/4 cup cooked chickpeas
3 cups shredded salad greens of your choice
Directions
- Combine all Italian dressing ingredients in a small bowl. Wish well until combined. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine salad ingredients. Toss to combine and drizzle with Italian dressing.
Have a lovely Sunday Funday!
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I'm happy, because my wife doesn't follow you. Because she's going to ask me to bring all these in order to try Italian food.
Anyway thanks for sharing this with us
Hehe! Would love to meet your wife! Thanks for your comment and I hope you do get to try this easy and yummy salad.
yes i try . thank you again
Thank you so much for sharing
Truly caring
About health and fitness
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And awesome colors too
An easy fix when you are blue
This is poem 19 for my poetrymarathon :)
Thanks for this beautiful poem... and I'm glad you like posts about health and colorful food. have a lovely Sunday ;)
Yummy! I will be needing more of those......
Thanks @dintellectual! More power lunches coming up ;)
For post work out, I'll add some bananas to it. :-)
Wow bananas in a salad! That's new to me. Unfortunately, my hubby only eats them when blended.
Banana is kind of energy food, right? I see tennis players pop one in between or at the end of the match. :-) though a banana milkshake is always good. BTW, strange name, there is user account "ihatebanana". haha where do they come up with these?
It sure is but thought you meant putting it in the salad hehe! Which would be kinda strange. I love banana shake with cinnamon... yum! And indeed... where do they get the inspiration for their names hehehe.
I think putting it in salad is fine too. I went to google. Quite a lot of banana salad.
I'll give it a try when my hubby is not home. I know they use banana flower here, but banana seems an odd combo to me... either way thanks for the tip and I'll give it a go.
I have not tried too but just thought of it in this post but I think I'll like it.
Love this post! Already followed and upvoted! Awesome recipe and cant wait to see more :)
Aww thanks @lovethynutrition. That's so kind of you.
Looks fresh and delicious! I love the ingredients in your homemade dressing!
Homemade dressings are the best! Thanks for stopping by @jaymorebeet!
Wow! It seems amazing my dear, i saw the ingredients for the Italian dressing all of it very healthy, always i use it if i want to marinate beef or chicken , it gives to our dish a great taste.
Happy Sunday my dear.
It sure does. Marinading makes everything better. Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you for sharing @amy-goodrich!
This superfood of yours will be featured on my next issue.
Have a great day!
Ohh wow! Thanks my friend for the support. much appreciated!
Wonderful dressing my friend, i also use about quite the same ingredients but for marinating some meats and fish too!
Awesome salad agai!
@progressivechef
Hehe! Your wife said the same thing! You both must be amazing cooks. Have a lovely day my friend.