How Not To Take Away From The Healthy Effect Of Salad?

It is true that salad is not food for the mind. But on the other hand, salad is one of the small foods that provide us with a good set of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which are necessary for the fine metabolic processes in the body and which are still important for the perfect functioning of the brain. 

Men usually avoid salad as a food because they don't think it's filling enough, but that's not entirely true. Salad is a great side dish to local products for lunch and can be a full part of the dinner menu, when in general our dishes should be lighter, in addition to being an "appetizer". 

Of course, the salad can be so delicious that the main dish fades, so you need to know a few tricks.

Here are some suggestions on how to make your salad a complete and irresistible temptation on the table for every taste:

1. How to make a salad a complete and energizing food

In addition to the usual vegetables that are available for the season, and not only, in the salad we can add food sources rich in protein. These can be, in addition to the traditional cheese for our kitchen, and pieces of chicken, diced ham, tuna, grated cheese, boiled eggs. Vegetable sources of protein such as old beans, quinoa, lentils, tofu can also be added to the salad. It can be additionally enriched with olives, corn, sprouts ...

2. Why is the salad not delicious?

Avoiding fats is mentioned in the general recommendations for a healthy diet. However, the salad must be consumed with at least a little fat, otherwise, the useful nutrients from vegetables can not be absorbed. Examples are carotenoids. Instead of reducing the fat in the salad, it is better to do it in relation to other dishes and to enrich the salad with your favorite dressings. If you like to add mayonnaise to your salad, use it. Seasoned with basil or oregano oily balms are also a great option for flavoring. Olive oil has no competitor in this respect with its unsaturated beneficial fatty acids: up to 80% oleic monounsaturated, up to 20% omega-6 and up to 2% omega-3, as well as saturated. Its fats contain fat-soluble vitamins - E, A, and D.

3. How to keep its quality useful?

Of course, in our desire to make it nutritious and delicious, we should not go to the other extreme. An indicator of the high usefulness of the salad is the presence of fresh vegetables in it. So rather do not rely on "Russian salad" to provide you with the necessary vitamins. A better option are the Bulgarian ones: "snowball" with fresh cucumbers, dill, garlic and walnuts; roasted peppers in milk sauce, cabbage with other fresh vegetables and mayonnaise, for example.

4. There are also subtleties ...

Another mistake we make is when we feel some of the ingredients dry, to add too much dressing, which is why we are already actually loaded with fat and the salad becomes heavy. To avoid this problem, try to find the tricks of chefs in restaurants. Notice how you are served certain salads and this is not because the kitchen staff saves time for stirring. It is no coincidence that the cheese and the egg are scraped on top. Or the spring salad of grated apple, beet and carrot is arranged in a certain order in the dish.

5. Wasting time ...

Admittedly, salad is time-consuming to prepare, especially if we want it to be different. Vegetables require washing, slicing. It also takes creativity and preparation to prepare a different salad. Sometimes getting different ingredients requires more than running to a nearby store. On the other hand, the salad is eaten quickly and is only for one meal.
However, each salad can be prepared in 15 minutes. Just in the beginning until you get into the habit is a little harder. However, this can certainly be food prepared with love and health care!