Waleeja

So guys share your healthy salad ideas please.. i'm very dumb when it comes to be creative in the kitchen and as the summer is just around I CAN'T eat anything cooked esp desi khaney! I have to live on salads/juices and shakes. Once in a while I have pasta or something of this sort but most of the time I just can't eat anything so can you give me some salad ideas please?

I just use whatever veggies I have and mix olive oil+vinegar+brown sugar toss and that's it my salad is ready.. I'm so tired of this now but I can't think of anyother thing.. also please keep your ingredients simple so I can easily get them here.

Thanks

redvelvet

You can vary the ingredients in your salad. For example you can add chick peas, kidney beans, diced egg, diced potato, shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, cucumbers, bell peppers, carrots, croutons, sunflower seeds, etc.

You can even add diced chicken, pasta to your salad. Add different types of cheese and dressings. Here are some low-fat salad recipes:

Low-fat Salads
Pasta Salad for a Crowd
Oriental Chicken Salad for Two
Low-fat Salads

Go to this web site. It's very comprehensive and organized. Has ALL kinds of salads:
Low Fat Salads - Healthy Meat, Vegetable and Pasta Salads

RupayHalwa

Dressing - mixed herbs, crushed garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper, olive oil. Yummy.
Yogurt dressing.


Veggies you can include - blanched green beans, apples, celery, parsley, kiwi, plums. Dried fruit, nuts n seeds.

Protein, egg, tuna.

Kangan

Salad yummy yummy.....

Kangan

I love salad..

sumorani

I just made this amazing healthy salad, like a Greek salad. Romaine lettuce, sweet grape tomatoes, crumbled feta cheese with basil and tomatoes, carrots, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. It was delicious.

Pareezay

lately i have been having romaine lettuce with carrots, feta cheese, turnip and seasoned croutons with italian dressing.. so delicious! i also tried au bon pain's tuna salad recently with field greens, green peppers, feta cheese and ranch dressing.. it was SO good! i made it a couple of times at home and added chickpeas to it.. also kidney beans at times.. and for a kick, apples! thats the best thing about salads, you can mix and match so much stuff, it will always turn out great. also, my hubby's aunt makes this amazing 'african' salad.. it has lettuce + veggies of your choice, raisins, chickpeas, kidney beans, walnuts and a few other things with very light dressing on top.. and a bit of olive oil.

bride2be

shay that tuna salad sounds good, but turnip as in shaljam in the first one? that just sounds weird. :P

Pareezay

^its good! u have never tried mooli, they are delicious. whats it called in english, turnips right?

queer

mooli is daikon radish.

Pareezay

thank you queer. both mooli and shaljam are delicious.

bride2be

mooli is radish and shaljam is turnip. i had a feeling you had mixed up the two.
turnips are decent when cooked but theyre just gross when raw.

redvelvet

I find them gross when raw.....and even grosser when cooked. I'm not a fan of sweet-tasting veggies.

RupayHalwa

I'm not a fan of turnips either, however I can bear them sometimes when my mum makes a dry curry with them.

MiamisweetheartX

I take Salads to work almost everyday. At your local grocery store but these things called "chow-mei" there like fried noodles. Thats something no one has mentioned yet. Also, If you can find pomegrate (anar) that taste sooo good in salads!!! I had my mom buy me an entire case and would put up about 4-5 pomagrates a day and then use them for a couple days until they finished. There crunchy and so refreshing in salads. Also, you can try throwing in some nuts. Im sure thats going to be good too. XOXO

MiamisweetheartX

I've never tried Feta cheese in my salads! Is it good? It looks so dry.

Pareezay

I am a big fan of vegetables regardless of them being sweet or whatever, turnips is another one of them. There's nothing like shaljam gosht, yum.

sumorani

Feta cheese is the best thing to happen to salads! Sooo good I can have just olives and feta cheese and I will be very happy for a long time.

dildirani

Cous cous is a nice addition to salads. I normally mix some cous cous with cucumbers, olives, red peppers, cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and with a drizzle of olive oil.Season it and add some dried herbs too.

Quite refreshing and light.

shaitaani

Oven Roast 3 chicken breasts gas mark 6 for 35
(before you roast them drizzle with lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper.Roasting chicken gives it so much flavour.

Chop the chicken into bitesize cubes when it's warm it absorbes all the flavour
1 Tsp of balsamic vinegar
3 tsps of extra low fat mayoinnaise
Add some chopped tarragon, parsley and Basil
Add chopped red onion
1 green bell pepper
1 red bell pepper
some croutons
lots of salad leaves (as and what you prefer)
salad dressing
salt and pepper to taste

yummy, ligh healthy and very summery!!