

Put this salad together for a pot luck and impress your friends or co-workers, or save the entire thing for yourself. It feels like a treat when I open a can, because it’s not an ingredient that’s in my regular rotation. If you’ve never had hearts of palm, they have the shape of string cheese and the texture of a creamy, mild cheese. The best part about this salad is it also takes care of one of my biggest cravings during a healthy reset – the desire for a big chunk of cheese. Heart of palm, sometimes called palm cabbage, ubod, palmito, and chonta, are a vegetable that comes from the inner core and growing bud the heart- of certain. The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook featured a recipe for Sardi’s Hearts of Palm Salad, one originally published in the restaurant’s 1957 cookbook Curtain Up at Sardi’s it’s a mixture of whole hearts of palm, lettuce, watercress, and pimento served with a vinaigrette of chopped. That’s where I came up with this Mediterranean-inspired salad that starts with a couple of Whole30-compliant canned ingredients and mixes in a few fresh flavors. Hearts of palm are often sliced raw into salads. Sometimes those dinners just need a salad or side dish to mix things up. Even then, I’m often leaning on shrimp and veggies to pull me through weeknight dinner after weeknight dinner.
#Hearts of palm full
I am already a pescatarian, which leaves me a sea full of options. It’s so easy to get caught in a rut when you’re doing any kind of diet, healthy reset or, for me, a Whole30. Heart of palm is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, most notably the coconut (Cocos nucifera), juara (Euterpe.
