Useful tips on preparing salads
September 29, 2009
These days, you can find fresh vegetables as well as fruits throughout the year. You just need to pay a visit to the supermarket. Using these natural ingredients in salads will definitely add up to the taste, increase your vitamin intake, the level of antioxidants in your body as well as ensure you are not adding up to the pounds.
Furthermore, fresh veggies added to salads, prove to be extremely good protectors against heart diseases and cancer, because they are rich in vitamins and minerals. Below you will find some great ideas on how to make some tasty salads.
Organic vegetables
You should purchase organic vegetables to ensure there are no pesticides or impurities in your food. You should soak them in diluted chlorox bleach for about ten minutes and then rinse well.
Delicious vegetables
When you are trying to pick the perfect vegetables for your salad, then you should probably be judging them by their freshness and ripeness. You can use tomatoes for the salad, but you need to make sure that they are kept at room temperature. Remember that when you keep the veggies for a long period, then by the time you make the salad, they lose their valuable nutrients.
Dressings
If you want to add a different touch to your salad, then you are probably thinking of adding dressings. However, you should make sure you put olive oil, apple vinegar, avocado, lemon juice or flax seed oil.
Dressings bought from the supermarket are most likely unhealthy, so you should avoid the rancid, low-quality oils that contain a lot of preservatives, cheap additives and do not have any or little nutritous value.
Splash of colors
While preparing a new salad, why not add different veggies with assorted colors? That way, you will ensure you have a full range of vegetables in your salad and thus, a variety of vitamins and minerals for the body. Besides, it is a visual and an appetising treat.
Cooking a salad
Before starting to prepare a salad, you can steam or blanch the vegetables just for a few minutes. Immediately run them under cold water. This process will ensure that the nutrients in the veggies are not lost inspite of the heat.
Just putting raw vegetables in the salad can sometimes affect those with a sensitive digestive system.
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