This Green Goddess salad is the ideal tasty, refreshing dish to include in your weekly meal plan rotation for a quick lunch or easy to prepare dinner.

With 325 calories per serving but featuring 24g of protein, it provides you with a delicious, quick and easy way to get your greens but keeps you on track to hit your daily protein goal.

The base of the salad is made up of butterbeans, lettuce, cucumber, and spring onions and is brought to life with a rich, creamy dressing made with Greek yoghurt, spinach, avocado, basil and fresh herbs.

This is a light yet filling salad that will take eating your greens to the next level, and it takes 15 minutes or less to prepare.

Serves: 2

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 0 mins

INGREDIENTS:

To make the salad:

• 1 x 400g tin of butterbeans, drained

• 2 large handfuls of romaine lettuce, sliced

• ½ cucumber, deseeded and diced

• 1 spring onion, finely sliced

• 1 tbsp mixed seeds, to serve

To make the dressing:

• 150g 2% fat or less Greek yoghurt / SKYR

• 1 tsp olive oil

• ½ lemon, juiced

• 30g baby spinach

• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

• ½ avocado

• 6 basil leaves

• 2 tbsp fresh coriander

• 1 garlic clove

• 2 tbsp chives

• 150ml water

METHOD:

1. Add butterbeans, lettuce, cucumber, spring onion and seeds to a large salad bowl.

2. Blend all of the ingredients for the Green Goddess Salad dressing together until smooth, adding small amounts of water until desired consistency is reached.

3. Pour dressing over salad and mix well.

4. Serve into two bowls and enjoy.

Food prep tip – make 3-4 portions for an easy food prep. It will keep in the fridge for 3-4 days. Keep dressing separate and add when serving for best results.

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