When you think of a low calorie diet, salad strikes your mind first. It’s one of the most efficient means to burn cholesterol without adding a single calorie to the body mass. Salad has a wide variants like salad of pasta, vegetable salad, legumes salad or mixed salad. The choice of composition of salad depends upon the person’s taste and demand. The most common salad is green salad, which is a mixture of fresh green vegetables. This salad offers freshness and glow on the face apart from working on reduction of cholesterol. Let’s find out how easily you can make salad which is quite healthy for you and your family. Here’s a step-by-step guide for you. Go on.
Complexity Level: Basic
Time Required: 15-20 minutes
Resources Required:
- Fresh vegetables
- Dry fruits
- Knife
- Salt
- Pepper
- Green chilies
- Salad bowl
Instructions:
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Get the salad bowl and lettuce: Firstly, wash the lettuce under cold water and place the it outside till it gets dry. Ensure yourself that you washed the lettuce well and then break the leaves and put them in salad bowl. You can save time if you have bought washed lettuce.
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Add fresh vegetables: Wash fresh vegetables that you like and peel off their skin. Make thin slices of fresh vegetables and put them in the salad bowl. Now, mix the mixture thoroughly to make it tasty.
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Add some dry fruits: You can add some dry fruits to the salad if you want to make it tasty. The dry fruits you can add to the salad are walnuts, almond and coconut. The adding of dry fruits depends on individualâs choice.
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Can go with meat: If you are a non-vegetarian and likes meat in the salad then you can add few pieces of chopped meat to add flavour to it and make the salad mouth-watering. The meat that’s added should be of low-calorie and not fat one or there would not be any difference between salad and high-calorie diet.
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Mix the ingredients: Now, mix the ingredients thoroughly. Prior to serve salad, place it in the freezer to get it cold because taste of chilled salad is very yummy.
Frequently Asked Questions:
How to make potato salad?
Potato salad is a very delicious variant of salad. It is also very inexpensive to prepare. Firstly, you have to boil few potatoes and peel them after they have been boiled properly. Now, dice the potatoes and add mayonnaise and eggs to it. Sprinkle salts and pepper to make it tasty. Add chopped parsley, red onion, and diced cucumber to it. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and place the salad in the salad bowl and put it in freezer. The taste of cold salad is quite different as compared to normal salad.
Quick Tips:
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Chickpeas, black beans, edamame and other legumes are cheap and are quite good source of proteins and fibers. They have high nutritional value. You can go for those ingredients while preparing salad.
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To make your salad more nutritious and tasty, you can decorate the top of salad with smoked salmon and few green chilies.
Things To Watch Out For:
The composition of salads can be changed as per diet and taste. If you are counting your calories you can make a low calorie salad as per your diet requirement. For low diet, you can select low crab vegetables.
