Adding a salad in your daily diet is one of the easiest ways of eating healthy. Being rich in various nutrients and low in calories, they make you feel fuller without letting you worry about gaining unwanted weight. Other good things about salad include the ease of preparation and the variety that you can have in them every day.
Although these reasons are tempting enough to make a salad a part of our everyday life, but many of us do not find them very tasty. Well, if you are one of them, then here are some delicious salad recipes for you.
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#1. Vegetable salad
Ingredients:
- 2 cups chopped vegetables including French beans, carrot and cauliflower
- 1 green capsicum
- 3 to 4 tbsp roasted peanut powder
- 1 tsp roasted jeera (cumin) powder
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- ½ tsp jaggery powder
- Salt to taste
- ¼ lemon juice
Method:
- Put the chopped vegetables in boiling water for three to five minutes and then strain it.
- Mix in a bowl the strained vegetables, chopped capsicum, and all other ingredients.
- Serve it chilled.
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#2. French Beans Salad
Ingredients
- 100 gm French beans
- 1tbsp roasted sesame seeds (til)
- 2-3 pods of finely chopped garlic
- 1 tsp soya sauce
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar (chikna sirka)
- 1 tsp green chilli paste
- ½ tsp extra virgin olive oil
- Salt to taste
Method:
- In a kadhai (wok), heat the olive oil, and sauté garlic and the French beans for two to three minutes.
- Add soya sauce, chilli paste, vinegar, salt, and sesame seeds to it.
- Toss it well.
- Serve hot.
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#3. Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
- 250 gm chopped lettuce
- 100 gm finely chopped green capsicum
- 100 gm finely chopped red capsicum
- 100 gm finely chopped red yellow capsicum
- 50 gm corn
- 50 gm crumbled cottage cheese (paneer)
- 60 gm finely chopped pineapple
- 2 tsp soya sauce
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar (chikna sirka)
- ½ tsp green chilli paste
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Take extra virgin olive oil in a kadhai and heat it.
- Sauté the red capsicum, yellow capsicum and green capsicum with corn, for five minutes.
- Add pineapple, soya sauce, vinegar, chilli paste, crumbled paneer and salt.
- Mix everything well.
- Wash lettuce leaves and place them on a plate.
- Add the sautéed mix on top of the lettuce.
- Now, wrap the leaves and serve.
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#4. Water Chestnut (singhara) and Pomegranate Salad
Ingredients:
- 100 gm pomegranate
- 250 gm green water chestnut
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ¼ tsp asafoetida (heeng)
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Peel the water chestnuts. Cut in two halves.
- Take extra virgin olive oil in a kadhai and heat it.
- Add heeng and chopped water chestnuts to the kadhai.
- Sauté for about three to four minutes.
- Add pepper and salt.
- Remove from flame and add pomegranate.
- Serve it chilled.
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#5. Fenugreek (Methi) Salad
Ingredients:
- 1 bunch of fresh fenugreek (methi) leaves
- 3 tsp sesame (til) seeds
- 3-4 walnuts
- 5-6 raisins
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- Pinch of asafoetida (heeng)
- ¼ tsp honey/ jaggery syrup
- Lemon and salt to taste
Method:
- Wash the methi leaves and keep them aside to dry properly.
- Take oil in a pan and heat it. Add mustard seeds and once it crackles little, add heeng. Now, switch off the gas and allow it to cool. Once it has cooled down, add salt, lemon, honey, and mix it properly. Now, keep it in the refrigerator so that it becomes chilled.
- Add walnuts, raisins and sesames to the methi leaves, and then add the chilled dressing.
- Mix well and serve.
The benefits of salads are not unknown to us. What might have been unknown could be the recipes of some lip-smacking salads. But with these five simple and yummy salad recipes, we hope that even the latter is not a mystery for you anymore.
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