Mung Bean Salad Recipe | Salad with Orange Juice Dressing

This mung bean salad recipe will be one of the most delicious accompaniments on your healthy eating journey. Follow the step-by-step guide to learn how…

Mung Bean Salad with Orange Juice Dressing

This bowl is full of high-quality foods such as mung beans, spinach leaves, celery leaves, strawberries, apples, basil… and more…

This healthy salad, which you will admire for its taste, is also quite assertive about keeping you full for a long time.

We will prepare this heavenly-tasting salad in less than an hour and make it an ideal meal to take to work/school the next day.

Does Mung Bean Really Work in Detox

Mung bean has many benefits. Its original cultivation comes from India and China, attracting significant attention in most countries.

Mung beans may help to increase your body’s ability to detox. They are quite high in antioxidants. Not only this. They’re also great cholesterol regulators.
They’re gluten-free, high in vitamins and minerals, protein and fiber, and low in sodium. Their low-calorie and low-fat content make them very attractive.
Apart from all this, one study conducted research that provides potential support for the anti-aging benefits of mung beans(1). In other words, they also have anti-aging properties.

Mung Bean Salad Recipe (2 Servings)

Per Serving

Calories: 310

Net Carb: 20g

Total Fat: 21g

Protein: 7g

Ingredients

Spinach (7 ounces / 200g)

Mung beans (3 tsp)

Cucumber (1 small)

Cherry tomato (5 cherries)

Strawberry (5 medium)

Apple (Green, 1 apple)

Celery leaf (2 tsp)

Fresh basil leaf (2 tsp)

Fresh parsley (2 tsp)

Fresh Mint (2 tsp)

Orange Dressing

Olive oil (3 tsp)

Freshly squeezed orange juice (2 fl oz)

Sugar (1/2 tsp)

Recipe – 20min prep / 25min cooking time

To prepare the mung beans, put them in a saucepan.

Add enough water to get over it.

Boil the beans for 20 minutes.

Drain the boiled beans and keep them aside to cool.

Clean the strawberries well and cut them into four parts.

Finely dice the apple.

Chop the cucumbers into cubes.

Wash and dry the spinach thoroughly, then place them in the salad bowl.

Recommendation: Make sure you wash and dry all vegetables very well.

Add strawberries and apples on top of baby spinach.

Roughly chop the fresh mint, celery leaves, parsley, and fresh basil and add to the salad bowl.

Now you can prepare the dressing:

Squeeze the juice of the orange and put 2 fl oz of orange juice in a bowl.

Add sugar to it.

Finally, add the olive oil gradually and mix the dressing until it gets a thick consistency.

Tip: If the dressing still hasn’t gotten a thick consistency, it needs more olive oil.

Finally, pour the dressing over the salad and mix well.

Divide the salad into 2 separate serving bowls.

Place halved cherry tomatoes on the sides of each bowl.

Place chopped cucumber on the sides of the bowls.

Finally, sprinkle a lot of mung bean on the salad.

Tip: Add pomegranate seeds for a more potent nutrition.

Serve your salad fresh.

Bottom Line

When you eat this salad, spinach will help your colon and liver to remove toxins. It will achieve this thanks to the chlorophyll it contains. It will also allow your body to cleanse heavy metals.

Just like spinach, every ingredient in the salad is very important because they will work together to cleanse your body of all waste.