Fresh Salads are a very nutrition-packed instant food you can relish upon. A very well known benefit of salads is that, it helps immensely in weight-loss, not only that, salads (mostly raw/semi cooked) take time to digest and are generally low on calories, hence keep your stomach full for a quite a long time and also gives all the nutrition from its ingredients uncompromisingly. Salads also increases the intake of vegetables and fruits in your diet.
For a healthy living, it is important that we cultivate the habit of healthy eating for which salad is a very good option. You can make numerous variety of salads mixing various ingredients from vegetables, fruits, lentils to nuts. Having a colorful salad not only feasts your eyes but your appetite too.
Here is a healthy vegetable salad version, that can be prepared in a jiffy and relished.
Ingredients:
Carrot - 1/2, chopped to small pieces
Cucumber - 1/2, chopped to small pieces
Tomato (Big)- 1, chopped to fine pieces
Peas - 1/4 cup
Corn - 1/4 cup
Fresh Beans - 10, chopped to medium pieces
Shallots (small onion) - 4 or Big Onion - 1/2
Garlic - 3, chopped to fine pieces
Ginger - 1 tsp, chopped to fine pieces
Lemon Juice - Squeezed from 1/2 Lemon
Coriander Leaves - 1 tsp, finely chopped
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
Method:
1. Boil fresh beans, peas, corn and garlic in water, until they are 70% cooked (the vegetables can be little crunchy to eat) and remove. Strain all the excess water and keep ready.
2. Take into a broad bowl the remaining ingredients like chopped carrot, cucumber, tomato, ginger pieces, lime juice, pepper powder, salt and coriander leaves.
3. Mix the contents from 1 and 2 very well and serve chilled or immediately.
Tips:
1. Garlic is added for flavor sake, you can avoid if you are not a garlic lover.
2. While cooking vegetables, don't cook them full, the crunchiness in the vegetables makes it more interesting to eat.
3. Pepper powder can be freshly made and mixed, to enhance the spice factor, instead of using store-bought powder.
4. For best nutritive effect, eat the salads fresh.
For a healthy living, it is important that we cultivate the habit of healthy eating for which salad is a very good option. You can make numerous variety of salads mixing various ingredients from vegetables, fruits, lentils to nuts. Having a colorful salad not only feasts your eyes but your appetite too.
Here is a healthy vegetable salad version, that can be prepared in a jiffy and relished.
Ingredients:
Carrot - 1/2, chopped to small pieces
Cucumber - 1/2, chopped to small pieces
Tomato (Big)- 1, chopped to fine pieces
Peas - 1/4 cup
Corn - 1/4 cup
Fresh Beans - 10, chopped to medium pieces
Shallots (small onion) - 4 or Big Onion - 1/2
Garlic - 3, chopped to fine pieces
Ginger - 1 tsp, chopped to fine pieces
Lemon Juice - Squeezed from 1/2 Lemon
Coriander Leaves - 1 tsp, finely chopped
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
Method:
1. Boil fresh beans, peas, corn and garlic in water, until they are 70% cooked (the vegetables can be little crunchy to eat) and remove. Strain all the excess water and keep ready.
2. Take into a broad bowl the remaining ingredients like chopped carrot, cucumber, tomato, ginger pieces, lime juice, pepper powder, salt and coriander leaves.
3. Mix the contents from 1 and 2 very well and serve chilled or immediately.
Tips:
1. Garlic is added for flavor sake, you can avoid if you are not a garlic lover.
2. While cooking vegetables, don't cook them full, the crunchiness in the vegetables makes it more interesting to eat.
3. Pepper powder can be freshly made and mixed, to enhance the spice factor, instead of using store-bought powder.
4. For best nutritive effect, eat the salads fresh.
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