Easily made in ten minutes, this fresh cannabis pear and arugula salad features cannabis fan leaves, mellow pears, red peppers, and a zesty lemon cannabis vinaigrette for the perfect side salad to accompany any meal. Plus, find many different infusion options to try, including my Bliss MCT oil.
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Recipe Features
- A super simple cannabis salad recipe
- Ways to incorporate cannabis into a healthy lifestyle
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
One of the biggest misconceptions I encounter with my Well With Cannabis Community is that many believe healthy eating is difficult, complicated, or time-consuming.
Or that all cannabis edibles must be sweets, like brownies and cookies. But truthfully, any recipe can be transformed into a healthy cannabis recipe.
Just like this simple salad made with cannabis fan leaves and a zesty cannabis lemon vinaigrette. The perfect side salad to take to work or on the go, you can easily enjoy your cannabis discretely.
In this post, I will share how to prepare cannabis fan leaves to enjoy in a salad and the easiest way to make your cannabis vinaigrette at home.
What You’ll Need
- 1 cup greens – any baby green you like, including arugula, spinach, kale, or fan leaves. Learn more about how to use cannabis fan leaves here
- ½ whole pear – thinly sliced
- ¼ whole bell pepper – your color of choice, thinly sliced
- 1 Tablespoon walnuts: crushed, toasted if desired
- 1 Tablespoon lemon vinaigrette: You can use regular store-bought vinaigrette and add 1mL of Bliss MCT oil, or you can make your own cannabis-infused lemon vinaigrette
- 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese: fresh grated is best
- ⅛ teaspoon ground Black pepper: to taste
Note: a complete list of ingredients with amounts and printable instructions is located in the recipe card below.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Step 1 – Add the arugula, fan leaves if using, pears, and bell pepper to a large bowl.
- Step 2 – If you’re using Bliss MCT oil and storebought dressing, mix them together first. Then, pour the lemon vinaigrette over the salad and use tongs to mix the ingredients well.
- Step 3 – Transfer to the bowl or meal prep container you would like to serve the salad in.
- Step 4 – Garnish the salad with walnuts and parmesan cheese before serving.
Note: complete step-by-step printable instructions are located in the recipe card below.
How to Make a Cannabis Leaf Salad
As cannabis becomes legalized throughout the country, more and more people have access to raw cannabis leaves.
Raw cannabis can be found in living plants that produce fan leaves, sugar leaves, raw flower buds, fresh leaf trim, seeds, stems, stalks, and more.
This recipe is a great recipe if you have access to fresh cannabis leaves and don’t want to waste them.
In addition to the many nutritional benefits typically associated with dark-green leafy vegetables, the cannabis plant also contains unique phytocannabinoids that nourish the endocannabinoid system.
Cannabis leaves do not produce cannabinoids quite as mature female flower buds do; they contain important nutrients, antioxidants, and cannabinoid acids like THCA and CBDA, meaning they are not useless.
Additionally, they also contain beneficial compounds known as terpenes.
How to Prepare The Leaves
Small, immature fan leaves and small sugar leaves make the best salad greens.
Large, older fan leaves are often too tough to be enjoyed in a salad and are better used to be juiced to blended in a smoothie.
Harvest, wash, and dry the cannabis leaves just as you would kale or spinach leaves.
Give a rough chop of the leaves, removing all long stems as necessary, and enjoy.
Perfect Dosing
This recipe calls for one Tablespoons of vinaigrette.
If you want to use a store-bought salad dressing, adding your infused oil right to it and mixing it together is easy.
Each 1mL dropper of my Bliss Cooking Oil contains 2.5mg of THC and 2.5mg of CBD.
A Tablespoon contains 15mL, resulting in 37.5mg of THC per tablespoon.
This leaves you with a lot of room to decide how much you want to add. I always recommend starting backward with dosing.
How strong do you want your salad? 5mg of THC? Then add 2mL of Bliss MCT oil.
Using a premeasured product gives you control over your dose and overall experience.
Cannabis Lemon Vinaigrette
This salad is delicious with many different vinaigrette types, but this zesty cannabis-infused lemon vinaigrette is my favorite!
It is just the perfect combination of bright, zesty flavor with mild notes of cannabis that pair perfectly with this salad.
Alongside my cannabis lemon vinaigrette, classic balsamic vinaigrette also makes a delicious topping for this salad.
Cannabis-Infused Pear & Arugula Salad
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Salad Tongs
Ingredients
- 1 cup baby arugula or fan leaves
- ½ whole pear thinly sliced
- ¼ whole bell pepper thinly sliced
- 1 Tablespoon cannabis lemon vinaigrette
- 1 Tablespoon crushed walnuts
- 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese
- ⅛ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Add the arugula, fan leaves if using, pears, and bell pepper to a large bowl.
- Pour in the zesty lemon vinaigrette and use tongs to mix the ingredients together well.
- Transfer to the bowl or meal prep container you would like to serve the salad in.
- Garnish the salad with walnuts and parmesan cheese just before serving.
Notes
- If you want to use cannabis fan leaves, use 1/2 cup of arugula and 1/2 cup of fan leaves
- If you do not want to make a cannabis lemon vinaigrette, you can simply drop your favorite cannabis oil on top of your finished salad
- Canned or fresh pears will work in this recipe. Canned pears are a great option if you can’t find good fresh pears. Canned pears are available all year round and are easy to keep on hand in your pantry
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