After doing a few oatmeal recipes with fruits and sometimes chocolate, it felt appetizing to vary pleasures by adding more savory flavor. This natto, celery and oatmeal salad with no-oil lemon dressing provides a savory bowl with French mustard. Whole-foods plant-based no-oil (WFPBNO) recipe.
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One thing that celery does, when adding it to a dish, is to add crunchiness. It is a little bit like eating an apple, or nuts. The human brain likes to sometimes have something harder, crunchy, to make a dish satisfying. Celery is also a top source of plant-based nitrate, which seems to help improve cardio-vascular function.
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As for natto, I found lemon juice (lime in today’s recipe) to make a nice food pairing with it. Pairing natto with lemon takes away some of the fermented
![Celery, natto and a lime mustard dressing](https://www.nicolaspujol.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Celery-natto-and-lime-mustard-dressing-768x1024.jpg)
Last, this was very quick to make, under 10 minutes as most dishes we do on this site. Your time is precious, and so is feeling good after a meal, and I think this dish helps on both objectives.
![Oatmeal natto and celery salad in lime mustard dressing](https://www.nicolaspujol.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Oatmeal-natto-and-celery-salad-in-lime-mustard-dressing-800x600.jpg)
As for drink to go with the salad, tea is a wonderful choice. I used Japanese green tea, but you can go with Oolong, or a hot juice like a hot orange juice with tea combo.
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Natto, celery and oatmeal salad with no-oil lemon dressing
Ingredients
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 1.5 cups water
- 1 lime
- 1 tbsp French mustard
- 3 oz celery (about 2 stems)
- 3 oz natto
Instructions
- Put oats and water in a pan, bring to boil then simmer for 10 minutes.
- In the meantime, squeeze the lime juice and mix it with the French mustard in a small bowl.
- Rinse and finely chop the celery. Open the natto box.
- In a mid-size bowl, place the cooked oatmeal at the bottom, then sprinkle the celery on top. Add the natto and top with the salad dressing.
Nutrition
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