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  • by Misha
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Do you want to adopt a healthy lifestyle? Are you conscious about your fat belly? Whatever you wish to get, a healthy heart or fit body you can always rely on salads. We normally don’t have time to cook healthy and delicious food. Salads can be on the top of the list if we consider the nutritional values. They are time saving too. Different combinations of raw vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices result in mouth-watering and low calorie diet.
Although junk food are even less time consuming are appetizing, but they don’t do good to your body. The tasty looking junk food leaves you with an obese body and many more diseases like diabetes and heart blockage. Well if we talk about salads, they are best in their nutritional values as they are prepared with raw ingredients. They are best source of fibre, vitamin A, C; E and K. Salads provide all the necessary minerals to the body and boost your immune system. It improves your digestion process and keeps you light.

Let’s try some of the recipes that are easy to make, healthy and equally delicious.
Spring Salad
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Salad filled with different coloured veggies and cream that can keep you tummy satisfied for a longer time.

Ingredients required making spring salad

  • Broccoli chopped 1 and ½ cup
  • Carrots shredded 1 cup
  • Radishes diced ½ cup
  • Bell pepper diced 1 and ½ cup
  • Onions diced 50 grams
  • Cream ½ cup
  • Black pepper, salt and herbs like oregano and basil for taste

Steps to prepare
1. Take a medium size bowl. Mix chopped broccoli, diced radish, bell pepper, onions and shredded carrots in the bowl.
2. Add the cream for dressing and toss the veggies well to mix them properly.
3. Add salt black pepper, oregano and basil according to taste
4. Serve the salad when chilled.

Crispy filler
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A salad made with crunchy peanuts and cabbage that crisps your taste.

Ingredients required making crispy filler

  • Cabbage finely chopped 200 gram
  • One carrot chopped well
  • Onions four in number, chopped well
  • Yogurt with low fat 150 grams
  • Radish sliced 30 gram
  • Roasted peanuts without salt 1/3 cup
  • Parsley chopped well 4 tablespoon
  • Pepper

Steps to prepare
1. Take a bowl and mix cabbage onion and carrot in it.
2. Whisk the yogurt well and add pepper to it. Spread it well over to the cabbage mixture.
3. Top the salad with roasted peanuts, radish and parsley just before serving.

Sprouts salad
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Salad made with sprouts rich in protein which one can take after workout.

Ingredients required making sprout salad.

  • One carrot chopped in match stick size pieces
  • One celery stalk chopped (not mandatory)
  • One apple chopped
  • One cup beans sprout
  • Sprouts ¾ of cup
  • Sunflower kernels ½ cup

Dressing ingredients

  • Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
  • Coriander finely chopped 1 tablespoon
  • Sunflower oil 2 tablespoon
  • Sesame oil ½ tablespoon
  • Salt and pepper
  • Ginger grated 1 tablespoon

Steps to prepare
1. In a mixing bowl put finely chopped carrot, celery stalk and apple. Add sunflower kernels to it and toss well.
2. For preparing the dressing of salad, whisk sunflower oil, sesame oil, and lemon juice.
3. Mix the dressing with salad. Sprinkle grated ginger and finely chopped coriander on it.
4. Add salt and pepper for taste. Your salad is ready to serve.

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