Cannabis-Infused Rainbow Salad with Chicken

Have you been searching for a savory-infused edible that supports your healthy lifestyle goals? Taste the rainbow with this vibrant, high-protein rainbow chicken salad made with delicious fresh fruit for a hearty entree-style meal that is naturally gluten-free and finished with a zesty cannabis-infused lemon vinaigrette.

Article Features

• A super simple cannabis salad recipe
• Ways to incorporate cannabis into a healthy lifestyle
• Want to skip the hard work? Easily infuse this recipe with my premium quality Bliss MCT oil, which can be delivered directly to your door! Now shipping across the US.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

Brighten your traditional lunch with this vibrant rainbow chicken salad with good-for-you ingredients like fruit, vegetables, and lean, organic chicken.

My Well With Cannabis Community members always ask for more delicious, healthy cannabis recipes, and this one fits the bill.

Complete with the option to infuse this salad with fresh cannabis leaves and a zesty lemon cannabis vinaigrette; there are many different ways to enjoy cannabis in this salad.

In this post, you will learn more about the benefits of adding more fruits and veggies to your diet and the benefits of consuming raw cannabis leaves.

Get the recipe for this delicious salad with printable instructions.

What You’ll Need

• ½ cup baby kale leaves –
• ½ cup cannabis fan leaves – learn more about working with fan leaves here
• ¼ cup shaved red cabbage chopped
• ¼ cup shaved Brussels sprouts
• 1 ounce cannabis lemon vinaigrette
• ¼ cup diced yellow bell pepper diced
• ¼ cup diced plum, peach, or nectarine diced
• ¼ cup blueberries
• ¼ pounds diced cooked chicken breast diced

Note: A complete list of ingredients with amounts and printable instructions is located on the recipe card below.

Cannabis Lemon Vinaigrette

This salad is delicious with many different vinaigrette types, but this zesty-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 lemon vinaigrette, classic balsamic vinaigrette also makes a delicious topping for this salad.

If you haven’t made it yet, here is my zesty cannabis-infused lemon vinaigrette recipe.

How to Prepare a Cannabis Leaf Salad

Thankfully, as cannabis becomes legalized throughout the country, more and more people have access to raw cannabis leaves.

Raw cannabis can be found in the form of living plants that produce fan leaves, sugar leaves, raw flower buds, fresh leaf trim, seeds, stems, stalks, and more. 

This is a great recipe to try if you have access to fresh cannabis fan 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 oftentimes too tough to be enjoyed in a salad and are better off used to be juiced to blended in a smoothie.

To prepare the leaves, harvest, wash, and dry the cannabis leaves just as you would with kale or spinach leaves.

Give the leaves a rough chop, removing all long stems as necessary, and enjoy.

Featured In My Cookbook

I am excited to have included a version of this recipe in my first cookbook, The 30-Minute Thyroid Cookbook: 125 Healing Recipes for Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism.

An excerpt from the book:

The old saying, “eat the rainbow” has some truth behind it. A healthy diet is full of a variety of foods. The different colors in whole, all-natural foods indicate a wide variety of available nutrients. This rainbow salad features antioxidant health benefits from plums, peaches, and blueberries for a delicious, high-fiber salad that is filling and satisfying.

The recipe featured on page 83 of The 30-Minute Thyroid Cookbook under Rainbow Salad Grain Bowl.