[Editor’s note] This post was originally published in March 2015. It has been updated and republished in May 2019.
Whether you have cancer or are incorporating a cancer prevention diet, the Spicy Arugula & Sprout Salad recipe below is loaded with many different anti-cancer superfoods.
Extra virgin olive oil is known for its monounsaturated fatty acids and phytochemicals, which inhibit cancer. The minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients boost your immune system for tumor protection.
Dark leafy greens, sprouts, and cruciferous vegetables contain indoles and isothiocyanates that assist the body in being alkaline, help detoxification, and prevent and reverse cancer.
Turmeric with curcumin is famous for its anti-inflammatory, blood purifying, and antioxidant effects.
And to top it all off… this salad tastes delicious!
Most people over the age of 50 are low in digestive enzymes and what’s also great about this salad recipe is that the dressing contains freshly squeezed lemon to help you digest the dark leafy greens.
All the ingredients are available at health food stores and farmers markets. Please buy organic whenever possible!
Cancer Fighting Arugula & Sprouts Salad Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1½ teaspoons fresh turmeric root, finely chopped
- 1½ cups sunflower sprouts (rinsed) and broccoli sprouts
- 2 cloves fresh garlic (preferably locally grown), crushed and minced
- 1 organic cucumber, diced unpeeled
- 1/3 cup sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
- 4 organic kale leaves (thoroughly washed), chopped
- ½ medium red onion, julienned
- 1 handful cilantro, rinsed and chopped
- 1 organic yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 2½ cups organic arugula, rinsed and chopped
- 6 medium radishes, washed and thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons raw organic pumpkin seeds
- 8-10 organic cherry tomatoes, halved
- 10 organic Kalamata olives, pitted and halved
- 1 Haas avocado, peeled, sliced, and placed on top of the salad
- 1 small fresh hot chili pepper sliced for garnish (to be eaten)
Dressing:
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons of whole grain tahini (preferably stone crushed)
- 3 tablespoons of water
- ½ teaspoon Himalayan, Celtic or other high quality salt, to taste
- Organic extra virgin olive oil, add before serving to taste
Directions:
- Gather all the ingredients together
- In a large salad bowl toss together the turmeric, sunflower sprouts, garlic, cucumber, sun-dried tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, kale, red onion, arugula, cilantro, radishes, bell pepper, and olives.
- Place the tahini in a small bowl and add the water, lemon juice, and salt. Blend with a fork to the consistency of syrup. If too thick add more water and lemon juice; if too thin add more tahini.
- Pour dressing into the salad bowl and toss it with the salad
- Spoon the salad evenly into your bowls, arrange the avocado and hot chili pepper on top
- Drizzle with olive oil and enjoy
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Add This Recipe to Your Anti-Cancer Diet!
This sprouts salad recipe is rich in minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and many anti-cancer superfoods.
The ingredients are also anti-inflammatory, loaded with silicon, nutritional sulfur, vitamins, protein, and help balance blood pH.
Do your best to buy organic ingredients to minimize chemical pesticides and herbicides and ensure you will not be consuming any genetically modified (GMO) foods.
Eating right is one of the most powerful ways to prevent, treat, and beat cancer!
What a Great Recipe!! Thanks Deborah!
Love the recipes! Everyone always asks “what do I eat?” So nice to have some good recipes.
Thanks a lot for sharing these information, am learning a lot from these. Please share more
I love seeing recipes from you. Thank you!
This is a great tasting salad but this recipe does not state serve for how many people .
Re salad recipe. Are the quantities indicated for 1 person or more. Please confirm. Seems like too much for just one person. Thank you.
Did I miss the number of servings these ingredient provide? Looks like it’s for more than one person…
Definitely like getting good recipes like this! Thank you.
DELICIOUS. Instead of regular kale I added purple kale which gives a nice addition colour wise. I also added freshly milled pepper because I read that pepper enhances the use of turmeric.
It would be great to receive more cancer preventing recipes.
Many, many thanks
Barbara
Alas, those of us who have very little to spend on food could not afford to buy and eat these ingredients on a regular basis. One reason why we in this category become sick so often. An article about how to eat healthily on an almost non-existent budget would be helpful!
Yes I hear you Sharon, it is twice as expensive to eat organic and eating regular vegetables are already expensive, fruit is the same…………. expensive. It seems that that in the not to distant future it will only be people who have money that can eat this way. I’m already not able to eat healthy to cure myself not organic anyway. So yes we need an article that does show people how to eat healthy on a very low budget.
Love the recipes. Will try this
Thank you Deborah, this is a keeper!
How many does this serve?
Yes…I love these receipes. I even just grew some sunflower sprouts and always have broccoli sprouts. Thanks Deborah!
Love it. Thank you!
Yes! Please! More recipes!
Will definitely try this.
Looks delicious, thank you.
adding black pepper will help in absorbsion of the curcumin in the fresh turmeric
Recipe looks marvelous. I would highly recommend that you consider “crispy nuts” – organic, raw nuts and seeds that have been soaked in unrefined salt and water and then dried at a low heat. This dissolves the phyates and makes nutrients more available. Check for more info in Sally Fallon Morell’s Nourishing Traditions Cookbook. : )
How many servings is this?
Is there a printable version of this, can’t seem to get it to print?
Hi Marsha, You could use the CTRL P or Command P option when you are on the page to print the whole page/article.
Please what is arugula?
This recipe is simply too complicated to shop for and create when not feeling well – the result looks amazing and Inam sure it tastes good too.
Number of servings for this recipe?
What a delicious way to starve cancer. Looking forward to more recipes. Thank you for all the great information.
The deeper the pigment, the richer the medicine!
We truly appreciate all that Ty has achieved. Thank you Ty. The recipee is wonderful. We are in the UK., and will purchase the ingredients later. Hope they are all available.
What a healthy recipe! Thank you!
Brenda Marchant
Brilliant recipes thank you. I echo some comments above that these are way outside the budgets of many people even when they prioritise eating well.
Check to see if there are any farmer’s markets in reach of you. Kale, arugula, cilantro, root veggies, other greens are very inexpensive from local farmers in fall/winter. A bunch of organic cilantro is 99 cents even at our supermarkets (Kroger, Safeway). They also have regular specials on organic produce that makes it not much more $. I plan meals around what’s on sale that week or what I can pick up at the farmer’s market. People who live outside of towns large enough to support the giant supermarkets are certainly at a disadvantage. I grow ginger, salad greens, parsley, cilantro, carrots, onions, peppers, even slicing tomatoes in pots on my patio. Organic seed is inexpensive; good soil and some fertilizer is the most costly part of growing your own. I plan to start my own sprouts soon, but right now I can get them from a local farmer’s wife. Be alert to sales and think creatively. You can make that lovely salad without some of the more costly ingredients.
Thx for the recipe.
Is there a substitute for the cilantro? We really dislike it.
I would suggest regular parsley, also very cleansing.
Thank you for all you and your team do to help us all stay healthy!
GOD BLESS you for the wonderful information and effort you make to empower us all on healthy eating and how to fight this cancer epidemic
Please tell me where I can buy the tahini you require in this recipe?
Nightshades promote inflation, which promotes cancer. This salad is best eaten without the peppers and tomatoes.
My mother in love has been healed of cancer (praise God!). She had to have her gallbladder removed many years ago. Would she have issues digesting any of these ingredients? Thank you.
Hi Jacqueline –
This is wonderful news about your mother! 🙂 God bless her!
It’s best to check with your natural health practitioner to confirm which foods would be best to avoid with her specific condition.
Hope this is helpful. Blessings and love!
Nightshade substitutions: strawberries for the tomatoes ( both fresh and sundried) and beets for the bell peppers. Add Balsamic or Apple cider vinegar to dressing to replace the Kick of the hot Chile pepper.
Can someone tell me how to use the turmeric root? It is a small item like ginger. Do I peel it or just wash it well and chop up the whole thing? Thank you.
My digestion is so poor I cannot eat any of the wonderful ingredients in your salad except avocado. Enzymes and probiotics in capsule form have zero effect. I’ve been trying them for 40 years. According to Ayurvedic principles I’m better off with well cooked cruciferous veggies so that’s what I eat. To avoid lectins I’ve stopped eating potatoes and, sweet potatoes, following Dr. Gundry’s lectin avoidance diet. I don’t eat any animal protein or grain except eight tablespoons of organic cottage cheese mixed with four tablespoons flaxseed oil, following the Budweiser protocol. I’m a 20 year prostate cancer survivor.
Thank you for all the most valuable information.