Chicory salad with peach, buckwheat and hazelnuts

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Nutritious meal salad with chicory (also called Belgian endives), buckwheat, peaches and hazelnuts. The basis of this salad is formed by whole buckwheat grains in a dressing of almond butter, raw honey and extra virgin oil. You can replace the honey with maple syrup for vegan.

Ingredients

Buckwheat – Not flour or flakes but whole grains.
Chicory – Also called Belgian endives, the white leafy vegetables with yellow or pinkish edges.
Peaches – With skin, so preferably organic.
Hazelnuts – Raw or roasted. You can buy them already roasted, or roast them yourself.
Raw honey – Or mapley syrup for vegan.
Extra virgin olive oil
Almond butter

Chicory

Chicory is called ‘witlof’ in Dutch, in the United States it’s also referred to as ‘Belgian endives’. In Holland we eat a lot of chicory, both cooked and raw like in this recipes in a salad. Chicory grows in the dark to prevent it from turning green: to keep it pale. It can have white/yellow or pink/purple tips. If needed, you can cut out the thick part where the leaves grow from. This can be a bit bitter, although more modern variaties aren’t as bitter as they used to be. Preparing chicory is easy. Just slice the leaves up when they are still attached to each other. They are crunchy and tasteful.

Honey

Be sure to use raw honey that has no added sugar. Honey contains healthy enzymes from the bees. Those enzymes will be destroyed if honey is heated over 100F (40C). Preferable from a local beekeeper.

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FAQ

Is buckwheat glutenfree?

Buckwheat is often considered a grain, but it is actually a pseudograin. As all pseudograins, buckwheat is glutenfree and contains lots of healthy proteins. In this recipe you use the whole grain. They have a kind of edgy round shape, so don’t use the flakes that look like oatmeal (rolled oats).

Is this recipe vegan?

Yes, the salad is vegan, but replace the honey with maple syrup.

Is this salad Medical Medium?

Yes, but with some reservations about the chicory. Also its not fatfree. The dressing contains fat (almond paste) and oil (olive oil).

What does MM say about buckwheat?

Glutenfree (pseudo)grains are filler foods that won’t do much harm but aren’t healing either. But, in the first MM book, buckwheat is NOT on the list of filler foods. And in an insta live (7/2/20 round 3 Q&A), when asked whether he recommends buckwheat, Anthony William says: “No…there’s a type of gluten in buckwheat…” Probably meaning it has similar effect on your healing process. But then in 2022 the Brain Saver book came out. And this book DID list buckwheat as one of the filler foods (Source: Brainsaver book, chapter 41).

Is this salad AIP?

No. Grains and pseudograins alike are not paleo so they are not AIP either. Nuts are not AIP either.