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Green Salads
Why do you have green salads? Is it just because you are health and diet conscious?
You are not at all fond of those raw and fresh herbs and vegetables for your lunch. Alas you know you don’t have any other choice. The pound you have put on can only be brought under control if you shift your diet to a high fiber, low fat and low calorie one. But if you don’t eat it with the urge you will actually indulge into a wrong way of this healthy nourishment.
Health and taste can go side by side very much in the preparation of green salads. If you can learn some of those, believe me they are irresistible. You will simply put down spicy and junk stuffs and feed on green salads with a relish.
Garnish green salads: Delicious and nutritious
It is no more a plate of drilled lettuce, chopped tomatoes with a layer of cream, sprinkle of salt and pepper. Chefs across the globe have researched and experimented with herbs and vegetables in varied ways to prepare some appetizing and luscious green salads.
Don’t feel disheartened that you will always have to check your pocket to have a plate of green salad at a restaurant or a food court. You can also prepare them at your home and moreover enjoy the fresh vegetables and herbs from your kitchen garden.
- Get hold of a premixed mix of salad greens. This will contain radicchio, peppery arugula and baby spinach. Add some chicory for taste and garnish with red lettuce leaves apart from common spices like salt, pepper etc. You can enjoy the mouthwatering feel not at the cost of your health. Rather the nutrient value you will gain is high with low calorie to balance your body weight.
- Bulbs of fresh fennel can be one of the basic stuffs in your green salad. You can try out when you have got bored with the common salty flavor. This will add a sweetening pulp to the salad along with the anise flavor.
- Broccolis, radishes, peas, beans can be included in your regular green salads along with cucumber, onions and tomatoes. Some of you even prefer to have carrots and cabbages in the same preparation. Add an ounce of yogurt to make it more nutritious.
- If you want a complete salad meal, the green salad must be prepared with grilled chicken or tofu and soybeans. This will contain a rich calorie value and extremely healthy for those suffering from malnutrition and underweight.
Instant nutrient supply
Green salads are a storehouse of necessary nutrients a balanced diet should contain. The fat and the carbohydrate part may be a bit low but for vitamins, minerals and antioxidants there is no better substitute than the green salad.
The trace minerals like sodium, potassium, zinc and nickel required by the body apart from iron and magnesium are also fulfilled by the natural herbs you eat as green salad.
Don’t give a second thought while placing the food order at the café. This time it would obviously be shredded carrot with mixed greens garnished with crumbled blue cheese and red cabbage shreds and walnuts. Just yummy! Yeah best in taste and great at health!