Salads are a healthy way to achieve the '5 a day' target for fruits and vegetables'. Salad recipes are versatile so you can have a crunchy fresh salad side dish, a refreshing green salad with vegetables and fruits, or have salad as a main course.
Just one cereal bowl of salad greens and leaves can count as one of our five portions of fruit and veg. Healthy Salad Recipes are easy to follow, most convenient and hassle free way of enjoying fresh vegetables and fruits. On this site you will find a good selection of some of the most common salad recipes and salad dressing recipes. Salad dressing recipe can be fun and adventurous and healthy.
There are many different types of salad leaves. These are also referred to as salad green or green leaf salads. Salad leaves come in a wide variety of flavours and taste. Whether you’re looking for sweet, soft, subtle, or bitter flavours, there are many different many types of salad leaves which can be used to make salads.
Some common types of salad leaves are listed below:
Cos (romaine) lettuce: This lettuce has dark green leaves. They are rich in potassium [...]
What is a Salad Spinner?
Salad spinner is a plastic bowl. It works as a centrifuge system. Once the plastic strainer starts spinning, the motion removes excesses water from the salad. This removes the water and you are left with dry salad is in the basket.
Why use a salad spinner?
When you store the salad it has to be wet. Salad can also be wet because you hve washed it. But when you want to use/eat the [...]
Vinaigrette is a type of salad dressing that is made by mixing vinegar
and oil. It is often flavored with herbs and spices to give it a more zingy taste. Follow this easy to make vinaigrette recipe to create a tangy vinaigrette salad dressing.
Vinaigrette Dressing
Ingredients:
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp wine vinegar
8 tbsp olive oil
2-3 tsp honey (or sugar)
1-2 tsp Dijon or grainy mustard
2-4 cloves of garlic
1 pinch salt to taste
pinch ground black pepper
Directions:
1. Combine all [...]