Simple Root Vegetable Salad

Ingredients

• 2 beets
• 2 sweet potatoes
• 1 parsnip
• 1-2 heads of romaine
• 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
• 1/4 cup Avocado oil
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Serves 4

Directions

• 1.

  Wash beets, sweet potatoes and parsnip.

• 2.

  In the Instant Pot, add 1 cup of water and the steamer basket.

• 3.

  Add beets and sweet potatoes. Set high pressure for 12 minutes. (If sweet potatoes are small set to 10) Allow nature pressure release.

• 4.

  Remove sweet potatoes and add parsnip. Set Instant Pot to 4 minutes high pressure.

• 5.

  Wash and cut romaine lettuce. Mix avacado oil and basalmic vinegar together.

• 6.

  Check with a fork to see if beets and parsnip are done.

• 7.

  Slice all vegetables in chunks.

• 8.

  For one salad, add 1/4 of the lettuce in a bowl and top with a portion of beets, sweet potatoes, parsnip and 1 tbs of pumkin seeds. Toss with about 1 tbs of dressing. Top with salt and pepper to taste.

• 9.

  If not making all 4 salads, you can either store all ingredients separately or make mason jar salads by layering 1 tbsp of dressing first, then root vegetables, lettuce and 1 tbsp of pumpkin seeds on top.