Salads - Boosters For Your Health
There is no greater meal on a hot summer day than a tasty salad. Salad is boring, you think? Than it’s obvious you haven’t discovered yet how manifold and interesting salad can be. I’m not speaking about that boring plain green salad with oil and vinegar but a nice colorful salad with different ingredients. If you like it sweetish, you can add different types of fruit to the green salad. Or quickly stir-fry some mushrooms, cut red and yellow pepper and cheese or feta cheese into small pieces and add it. You could also mix boiled eggs, tomatoes and mozzarella (all cut into pieces, of course) with your green salad. Different kinds of nuts can spice up your salad, too. And why not adding some cooked meat or fish?
For the sauce, you can, for example, mix plain yoghurt with your favorite spices, a little oil and good vinegar, or use smooth cottage cheese that you liquidize with some milk instead. That goes well with sweet salads. For a salad with vegetables, mix 4 tablespoons of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, ¼ teaspoon of salt and a pinch of freshly ground black pepper.
Be creative! The sky is the limit. Maybe you can even think of something without green salad in. Like rice or noodle salad. Whilst your rice or noodles cook, you can prepare the other ingredients. Most veggies you can add raw, cut them into smaller pieces then. Or you cut and stir-fry them for a few minutes. Then you just mix everything, and voilà! These salads can usually be kept for a few days in the fridge so you can make them early in the day or even the day before.
If you are trying to lose weight, salads are definitely a great option for you. What could be healthier? Salad and vegetables contain plenty of essential minerals and vitamins in good balance, and in addition, salad offers a high amount of indigestible dietary fiber, which are important to fill you. Salad boosts your metabolism, whether you now use it as a starter, main or side dish. If you want to make a rice or noodle salad, use brown rice or whole wheat pasta. It will fill you quicker (so you don’t eat so much) and is also more nutritious than the white ones. Just be careful with the dressing! Stay away from cream and mayonnaise dressings. Choose one with little fat, for example a low-fat yoghurt sauce, or healthy fat like an olive oil dressing. Low-fat mayonnaise might also be an option.
3 things you need to know about salad
- Don’t store the salad and vegetables too long as they will lose vitamins, especially the green salads. Keep them cool, dry and dark, either in the cellar or in the vegetable compartment of your fridge. Root and tuber vegetables (e.g. cabbage, celeriac) can be stored for a few weeks in the cool cellar without significant loss of quality.
- Prefer naturally grown products, as hothouse salads may contain rests of the chemicals used to grow and protect them. They also are not so great in taste.
- Buy salads and veggies that are “in season” at the moment, then you will get the best quality and taste and, of course, they will also be cheapest.
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