Chef Via Melissa’s Post Holiday Detox Salad
My story:
For many years, I would often host a cooking class or workshop in January called a Post Holiday Detox and it would entail super clean dishes such as this Post Holiday Detox salad that would help people jump start and commit to their New Year’s Resolutions for eating healthier and cleaner coupled with detoxing from excess drinking and binging during holiday time. The detoxing ingredients in this salad are arugula, fresh squeezed lemon, olive oil and sea salt. Buon appetite!
Ingredients
4 cups arugula salad
1 lemon
6 cherry-heirloom tomatoes
¼ cucumber
¼ cup pistacios
6 artichoke hearts
1 tbl spoon Olive oil
¼ tsp sea salt
Directions:
Add salad to a bowl
Top with olive oil and squeeze whole lemon
Add sea salt and toss all together
Slice cucumbers and add, then top with tomatoes, artichoke hearts and pistachios
Chef Via Melissa Melissa
Melissa Eboli AKA Chef Via Melissa is a certified Culinary Nutrition Expert (CNE), Nutritional Chef and certified nutrition & wellness counselor (CNWC) based out of the NY-Metro Area. She is the author of “Let’s Dine IN: Healthy Recipes & Tips To Minimize Your Shopping Trips” (2020), and the owner of Via’s Kitchen, a personal chef and catering company that cooks from a global perspective, while also focusing on clean, allergen friendly food. Her services include event catering, dinner parties, cooking classes, live demos and recipe development. When she's not in the kitchen, she has been seen making guest appearances on Dr. Oz, in addition to being published in the likes of The New York Times, Forbes and Readers Digest to name a few. She has executed over 300 events and has been in the media over 100 times for her culinary and nutrition expertise. Her passion as a chef is to create healthy, sustainably conscious dishes with a modern twist using the cleanest of ingredients while focusing on nutrition, flavor and presentation with an emphasis on gluten and dairy free cuisine.
