Rainbow fruit salad with sweet carrot top pesto
- Total time
- 46 minutes
- Preparation time
- 45 minutes
- Calories
- 450
- Portions
- 4
There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Or a fruity salad with sweet carrot top pesto! It sounds unbelievable but it's true: carrot tops are a wonderful ingredient to use, they are much too good to end up in the bin. The enchanting leaves and stalks magically provide you with all sorts of vitamins, minerals and fibre. The frizzy green leaves taste slightly like parsley. Carrots, coconut, dates, berries, grapes, papaya, orange, pineapple and kiwi make a delicious spectacle for lunch or dinner. You can't get more variety than that!
Directions
To make the sweet carrot top pesto: Wash the carrot tops, remove the tough stalks and wash the leaves. Blanch the carrot tops in rapidly boiling water for 1 minute and then plunge them into a bowl of cold water containing a few ice cubes. Drain the carrot tops in a sieve, chop them, and purée with the coconut flakes, almond butter, dates, peeled pistachio nuts, grated lemon peel, agave syrup, vanilla seeds from the vanilla pod and approx. 10 tablespoons of water in a food processor or blender until very smooth.
To make the fruit salad: Wash and clean the fruit and cut into bite-sized pieces. Arrange on a plate or in a bowl in strips. Drizzle the sweet carrot top pesto over the fruit.
Sometimes we need to paint our own rainbow!
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Ingredients
The greens from 1 bunch of carrots (approx. 200 g)
Ice cubes
30 g coconut flakes
2–3 tbsp almond butter
2 dates
50 g peeled pistachio nuts
1 tsp grated lemon peel
1 tbsp agave syrup
1/2 vanilla pod
10 tbsp water
100 g blueberries
160 g red grapes
150 g raspberries
150 g strawberries
1/2 papaya
1 orange
150 g peeled pineapple
150 g green grapes
2 kiwis
Plus: food processor or blender
Nutritional Facts
| 4 Serving Per Container | |
| Serving Size | 490 |
| Calories | 450 |
| Entries | Daily value in %* |
|---|---|
| Total Fat (20 g) | |
| Saturated Fat (6.2 g) | |
| Sodium (22 mg) | |
| Total Carbohydrate (54.4 g) | |
| Dietary Fiber (14.4 g) | |
| Total Sugars (9.1 g) | |
| Protein (9.4 g) | |
| Calcium (200 mg) | |
| Iron (5 mg) | |
| Potassium (1.3 mg) | |
| Vitamin C (155 mg) | |