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Detoxifying Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint

Get ready to tantalize your taste buds with this Detoxifying Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint. This is a clean salad with a host of healthy ingredients like fresh mint, arugula, watermelon and healthy grains. Top this refreshing salad off with nutritional yeast to amp up the nutritional value. This is the ultimate meal prep salad to eat all week. 

Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint

Detoxifying Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint

This is our favorite end of summer salad. Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint is filled with our favorite farmers market finds like broccoli, arugula, fresh mint, and farmers feta cheese. This salad we like prepping on Sunday and filling our Tupperware with a nice cupful to go with our proteins like chicken and tuna. Arugula is the lettuce of choice for us. Also called salad rocket or garden rocket, it has a distinctive and peppery flavor. Leafy greens like arugula are a great source of alkalizing and detoxifying chlorophyll. Start introducing more high chlorophyll foods like arugula in the meals and you will have increased energy.

This watermelon salad with feta even looks pretty on the table! Broccoli and cauliflower have a lot of great nutritional value as well!  One serving of cauliflower contains 77 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin C. It’s also a good source of vitamin K, protein, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, magnesium, phosphorus, fiber, vitamin B6, folate, pantothenic acid, potassium, and manganese. The presence of vitamin-C, sulphur and certain amino acids make broccoli a very good detoxifier. Broccoli helps to remove free radicals and toxins like uric acid from the body, thereby purifying the blood and keeping away toxins. Not many folks have tried a salad with watermelon, but let us tell you, you will love it! Plus the added watermelon salad dressing tastes so refreshing!

Detoxifying Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint
You will love this refreshing take on a Greek salad, with lots of flavors and clean ingredients!
Course: Salad
Author: April Decheine
Ingredients
  • 4 Cups Arugula lettuce
  • 2 Cups cubed watermelon
  • 1 Cup chopped broccoli
  • 1 Cup chopped cauliflower
  • 1 Cup diced tomatoes
  • 1 Cup cooked quinoa
  • 1/2 Cup chopped green onion
  • 1/2 Cup pumpkin seeds
  • 2 hard boiled eggs chopped
  • Dressing Ingredients:
  • 2 cups organic watermelon large chunks
  • 3/4 cups organic extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons organic apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons organic maple syrup or your favorite liquid sweetener
  • 2 organic dates
  • 1 - 2 pinch Himalayan pink salt
Instructions
  1. For the salad, mix all together and top with the watermelon dressing.
  2. Dressing instructions:
  3. Add all ingredients for the vinaigrette into a blender and blend until well combined.
  4. Drizzle over salad.
  5. Enjoy!

Watermelon Facts

  • 1 cup contains 16.4% vitamin C
  • Provides anti-inflammatory benefits
  • Excellent antioxidant
  • Excellent source of potassium
  • Natural diuretic

We sure hope you enjoy this Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint and the health benefits it delivers! You may also enjoy these recipes that inspire watermelon in your salad.

April and Dave are the creators of Skinny Over 40 which is about living a healthy lifestyle over 40, and under. We give you the skinny on detoxing and weight loss.

5 Comments

  • Cara (@StylishGeek)

    Wow! I really appreciate your ‘clean’ recipe of Detoxifying Arugula Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint! Yummy! Can’t wait to try this at home. Thanks for sharing!

  • Christine Cox

    I love that something so yummy is also so great for your body. Everyone needs a good detox meal!

  • Kelly Reci

    This looks so delicious and nutritious as well. It will people, especially those who are in diet to become physically fit and healthier.

  • Dogvills

    I like anything with feta cheese in it. I have not tried adding watermelon to a salad, but as they say, there is always a first time. Seriously. your salad looks divine!

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