This Vegan Salad with Millet is the perfect healthy lunch salad!
It’s just 407 calories, and packed with good for you ingredients. Like Millet… which helps balance hormones so you can lose or maintain weight easier.
This millet salad recipe is filling and delicious, and travels really well! Making this easy lunch salad perfect for eating at your desk!
Enjoy these millet lunch salads at home or at work… You can even meal prep them for the entire week!
This Vegan Salad with Millet is just 407 calories and makes great lunch salad recipes…
Vegan Salad with Millet
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make fresh vegetarian salad recipes.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll even find low calorie tips for lunch salad ideas, a homemade vegan salad dressing, and more.
To make the salad recipe with millet easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- The Best Vegan Salad Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Vegetarian Salad with Millet
- Vegan Salad with Millet (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Millet Salad Recipes
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this vegetarian salad with millet on Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list and low calorie tips for making healthy millet recipes…
The Best Vegan Salad Ingredients
It’s easy to make vegan and vegetarian salad recipes low calorie and healthy.
Use these tips and tricks to make all your vegan salad ideas healthier and lower in calories…
Low Calorie Tips for Vegan Salad Recipes:
- Homemade Salad Dressing… save calories and fat and make your own dressing! This Homemade Balsamic Vinaigrette is vegan and yummy… and has much less oil than store-bought. Homemade vegan salad dressing recipes will also help you insure you’re not adding preservatives or excess sugar to your diet.
- Hormone Balancing Foods… did you know that millet naturally balances hormones?! So if you suffer from hormone based weight gain once a month, or if you are finding it harder to lose or maintain a healthy weight as you get older, millet can help!
- Metabolism Boosting Foods… spinach, oranges, and onions all naturally boost metabolism! They are even more effective in a raw state. Making these supercharged metabolism boosting vegetarian salads.
Shopping List for Cold Millet Salad:
- Millet
- Baby spinach
- Cherry tomatoes
- Red onion
- Clementine orange
- Homemade Balsamic Vinaigrette
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this millet recipe you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for millet recipes vegan salads can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make a healthy vegetarian salad recipe for lunch…
How to Make Vegetarian Salad with Millet
These vegan salad lunch ideas can easily be boosted with added protein.
Add one of these protein add-ins to boost nutrition and stay fuller, longer. Some of these are obviously not for vegetarian salad ideas… but the tofu will be great for all diets.
Work Lunch Salad Protein Add-ins:
- Shredded Chicken: adds 39.9g of protein
- Salmon Filet: adds 22g of protein
- Tofu: adds 21.5g of protein
How to Make Easy Vegetarian Salad Recipes:
- To a small pan, combine the millet and the water.
- Bring to a simmer on medium heat, then lower the heat to the lowest setting.
- Once cooked, move the millet to the fridge to cool until you’re ready to assemble the vegan salad.
- To a bowl, or a salad container, add the millet, spinach, tomatoes, onions and orange segments.
- If eating right away, drizzle the dressing over the salad and serve.
- If taking with you to work, add the salad dressing to a small container and place inside the salad container so the salad stays crisp.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best vegetarian salad…
Vegan Salad with Millet
This healthy vegetarian salad with millet is just 407 calories and have the following benefits:
- This salad naturally boosts metabolism!
- The millet in this salad will balance hormones making weight loss or weight maintenance easier.
- This salad comes with a low calorie homemade vegan salad dressing!
Healthy Vegan Salad with Millet
Ingredients
- ⅛ cup millet
- ¼ cup water
- 2 cups baby spinach
- 10 cherry tomatoes quartered
- 2 red onion rings (about 1/8 cup) thinly sliced
- 1 clementine orange segmented
- 2 ½ tablespoons Homemade Balsamic Vinaigrette
Instructions
- To a small pan, combine the millet and the water.
- Bring to a simmer on medium heat, then lower the heat to the lowest setting.
- Once cooked, move the millet to the fridge to cool until you’re ready to assemble the vegan salad.
- To a bowl, or a salad container, add the millet, spinach, tomatoes, onions and orange segments.
- If eating right away, drizzle the dressing over the salad and serve.
- If taking with you to work, add the salad dressing to a small container and place inside the salad container so the salad stays crisp.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Millet Salad Recipes
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