This salad features arugula, spinach, garlic, spirulina, nori, pumpkin, sunflower and hemp seeds for some of those essential minerals and amino acids for healthy serotonin and dopamine production.  Our digestive motility is regulated by serotonin along with our digestive enzymes and fluids.  It is important to have healthy minerals for stomach acid production and to support these neurotransmitters in the gut for small intestinal bacterial balance.

t = teaspoon
T = tablespoon
C = cup

Arugula Sea Salad

Ingredients

1/2 cup hemp seeds
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 green onions, chopped
2 T red onion, chopped fine
1 T capers (optional)
1 clove garlic
1 t spirulina
2 T nori pieces (torn, cut with scissors or preformed into sheets, torn)
Salt and pepper to taste

1 cup sunflower cashew cheese, optional

6 cups mixed spinach and arugula

Instructions

Blend together the hemp seeds, apple cider vinegar, garlic and spirulina until smooth

Pulse in chopped green and red onions and capers (if using)

Stir in sunflower/cashew cheese if using to create a chunky texture

Serve your chunky blue “cheese” dressing on top of arugula and spinach and top with nori as a garnish for a tasty sea salad!