Radicchio Salad with Cashew Ricotta Dressing

DRESSING

• 1/2 cup cashews or sub unroasted macadamia nuts, raw, soaked in hot water for 10 minutes
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 ½ Tbsp nutritional yeast
• 1/3 tsp sea salt plus more to taste
• 1 dash onion powder (optional)
• water to thin

BEETS

• 1 medium beet thinly sliced into rounds
• 7 cloves garlic peeled, roughly chopped
• 1 tsp avocado oil (if oil-free, sub maple syrup)
• 1 healthy pinch sea salt
• 1 healthy pinch black pepper

CANDIED WALNUTS

• 2/3 cup walnut raw
• 2 tsp maple syrup
• 1 ½ tsp coconut sugar
• 1 pinch salt sea salt
• 1 dash ground cinnamon

SALAD

• 1 head radicchio ~6 cups as recipe is written, rinsed, dried, bottom trimmed, unpeeled, roughly chopped
• 1/2 medium lemon juiced
• 1 healthy pinch sea salt
• 1 healthy pinch black pepper
• 1/2 cup parsley chopped, fresh