How To Make A Better Salad


by Stephanie Manley - Date: 2007-02-07 - Word Count: 459 Share This!

Salads are a wonderful addition to your diet. Salads can be light and refreshing to heavier and something you can make a meal out of. So often salads have been neglected and have simply been some iceberg lettuce and then chopped with a cherry tomato or two. Salads can be much more complex, if you make a few changes to building a salad. We are going to look at three areas of building a salad, the greens, the toppings, and then salad dressings.

By changing up what you put in a salad you can make a very large difference in what you get out of them. Consider not using iceberg lettuce, or changing some of it out with baby spinach, red leaf lettuce, radicco, butter lettuce, or what ever your local market may have in season. You may want to consider adding fresh green herbs to your lettuce mix, cilantro, and flat leaf parsley make a nice addition to your basic salad green base.

Before adding the dressing consider adding unique ingredients like beans such as garbanzo beans, red beans, or even black beans to a salad. Nuts can be added for great flavor and texture. Soy nuts, pine nuts, walnuts, are just a few of the nuts you may want to try. Look in your vegetable drawer or even your refrigerator and see what you have available. Left over roast beef, or even chicken can be added, as well as any grilled vegetables, or other bits of carrot, celery, onion, that you have laying around as well. Don't rule out fresh fruit either, chopped pears, apples, or even orange segments can add a tasty variation to a salad.

Salads are never complete without being topped with a salad dressing. Have you ever considered making your own? Oil and vinegar dressings are very easy to make. Here is an example of a plain oil and vinegar dressing.

Oil and Vinegar Dressing
2/3 cup Olive Oil
1/3 cup Regina wine vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Add Olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper into a container, and shake well before serving. This will keep for a couple of weeks.

As you can see the possibilities for a salad are really endless. By changing out the salad greens, you can enhance the flavor and texture of your salad. Adding different ingredients such as nuts, left over meats, vegetables, and even fruit can really add an extra kick. When it comes to salad dressings, consider making your own, and you can add other spices and herbs to customize a special blend that you enjoy. You can even save money by making your own salad dressings. So the next time you make a salad consider changing up a few things and enjoy a new tasty salad.


Related Tags: diet, salads, salad dressings, light food

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