Recipe for Royal Waldorf Salad by Zanada Maleki
Ingredients
· Juice of 1 whole lemon
· Salt to taste
· 1+ tablespoon/s Trader Joe’s 21 Seasoning Salute or similar spice mix
· 3 apples, cleaned, cored, and chopped
· 2 cups of finely chopped celery (or 3 stalks celery)
· 1 and ½ cups soaked raisins (soaked in ½ cup hot water for 20 minutes to wake them up)
· 2 cups blueberries
· 3 Tbsp Vegan mayonnaise (Mayo label at Trader Joe’s)/ or any brand you like
· 1 and ½ cups chopped trail mix unsalted nuts (almonds, pistachios, filberts, brazil nuts, walnuts, cashews). The nuts may be roasted or unroasted. If unroasted, soak the nuts in a hot water only bath for 20 minutes. Tis softens them as well as cleans them of natural residues. Rinse the nuts. They become meatier in that the soak reawakens any semblance of enzymes left in the nuts that ready the nuts to try to sprout.
· 1 fistful or 2+ cups of cold water rinsed wild arugula/organic arugula or your favorite green leafy veggie, chopped
Method
· For all fresh veggies and fruits: prep a cleansing bath as follows. In a large bowl, pour hot water to fill half the bowl. Add ½ tsp common table salt. Add 3 Tbsp hydrogen peroxide. Add 3 Tbsp white distilled vinegar. Mix together. Add in the apples quickly. Swish them around in the water, rub them over with your hands in the water. Quickly remove them and rinse them in a cold water bath. The hot water also increases the ripening, the cold water stops the ripening. You will notice what falls off of what was assumed to be clean apples before that bath! Treat the celery the same way. Give them both a final rinse. Dip the blueberries into the cleansing bath very briefly using a sieve or strainer. Rinse well. The peroxide addresses the bacterials, the vinegar treats funguses, salt conditions the water to become a more workable efficient liquid solution. The heat of the hot water stuns any creature wildlife hanging on in disguise.
· In a medium bowl add: apples, lemon juice over the apples, celery, blueberries, chopped nut mix. Stir in the mayo. If you find that to be too much, add in another apple. Add in the spices. Stir together well such that everything gets coated with the mayo, but not smothered in the mayo.
Do a final shake of spices to taste (but not more salt).