Salads are useful all year round
Many residents of the post-Soviet spacethe word "salad" and today is associated with a mixed set of products, generously dressed with your favorite all the sauce - mayonnaise. Adherents of a healthy diet, as well as those who observe Orthodox fasts, often at the cost of titanic efforts of will forbid themselves even to look toward these tasty, but such high-calorie dishes. However, there are a lot of time-tested recipes for lean salads, the basis of which is cereals, vegetables, legumes, mushrooms. And, importantly, in lean salads there is not a drop of mayonnaise or sour cream. We offer you a selection of recipes for delicious lean salads with a photo.
Potato salad
This dish is sometimes called a salad -transformer, since his recipe is "mobile", that is, it is easily modified to suit our taste preferences or desires - just add the favorite vegetables to it.
A classic recipe.
Ingredients:
small potatoes - 500 gr
cucumber - 2 pieces
parsley and dill greens - 1 pencil
Peeled nuts (usually cedar)
refined vegetable oil - 4-5 tablespoons
sesame oil and lemon juice - 2 tablespoons
Liquid honey and sweet Dijon mustard - 1 tablespoon each
Step-by-Step Recipe:
Mix vegetable, sesame oil, lemon juice, honey and mustard - this is the dressing of our salad. You can slightly salt.
Boil the potatoes in the "uniform". Clear.
Cut into quarters, and if very small - in half.
Mix with the dressing.
Let it brew.
At this time, in a dry frying pan slightly, until golden brown, fry the nuts.
Cucumbers cut into thin plates or circles.
Add the cucumbers to the salad. Mix.
Sprinkle with nuts.
All. Delicious lean potato salad is ready. Fans of experimentation can, as already mentioned, add to it absolutely any ingredients - tomatoes, onions, peas, olives and so on. Create for health!
Carrot and beetroot salad
Nutritionists in one voice argue that the mostUseful for the body are those vegetables and fruits that grow on beds in your area. And if so, then we offer you a recipe for cooking one of the most useful salads.
Ingredients:
beetroot - 500 gr
carrots - 300 gr
green onions - 1 beam
natural yoghurt - 130 ml
Ground ginger and chili powder - by pinch
liquid honey - 1 teaspoon
Step-by-Step Recipe:
Mix yoghurt, chili, ginger and honey - this is a dressing
Beetroot and carrots (raw!) Grate (as you like - on a large or shallow). Transfer to a bowl. To mix.
Onion finely chopped and added to root vegetables
Mix. Refill. If necessary, season with salt.
Your lean salad is ready. Piquancy taste can be given by sprinkling crushed peanuts into large crumbs. Bon Appetit!
