The Best Salad Recipe for Weight Loss: Ultimate Guide to Making it

This 15-minute weight-loss salad is simple, easy, and healthy but tasty!! It can be a game changer for your weight loss journey. So Let’s have a look at the Best Salad Recipe for Weight Loss!

Whenever I get fresh produce from my garden, the first dish that comes to my mind is making a hearty plate of salad. You actually don’t need any occasion to make a salad. Every day can be celebrated as a salad day.

All you need is a bunch of fresh veggies, protein like eggs or chicken, any citrus fruit, few drops of olive oil and you are good to start making a salad.

We all know that for our bodies, salad is as good as heaven. This dish not only going to curve up your body but also it’s easy to make and pocket friendly.

Most of the time, I love to make random casual salads. Seriously, who would like to spend hours in the kitchen just for a plate of veggies? I do a lot of experiments while making salads, one of my successful ones is this 15-minute weight-loss salad.

It’s simple, time-saving, delicious, and most importantly fulfilling!

This salad recipe is perfect for your Sunday brunch and those evening cocktail parties. Moreover, this dish seems to fit office lunch boxes and whole week meal preparation.

So why don’t you give it a try?

What can be used instead of eggs in the salad?

No doubt, one of the simplest proteins for the salad has to be eggs. It will need you only 7 minutes to prepare 2 hard boil eggs.

But what if someone doesn’t like eggs?

Obviously, eggs can be replaced with boiled or cooked boneless, skinless chicken cubes. Pan-fried cottage cheese also goes excellent with this recipe.

Can I make a dairy-free or vegan salad?

These days turning any recipe into vegan or dairy free is so easy. There are tons of vegan replacements for different ingredients. So this salad recipe is no exception!

Instead of chicken or cottage cheese, you can use tofu or soya chunks. Thick fresh yogurt is the base of this salad dressing. You can actually replace dairy yogurt with vegan sour cream or dairy-free curd.

Some of the vegan yogurt brands are Go go squeeze vegan yogurt, Genesis starter culture vegan yogurt, Euro cuisine yogurt culture, Yogourmet dried yogurt, Yoplait light very cherry yogurt, and so on.

Ingredients at a glance

• Lettuce
• Broccoli
• Beetroot
• Cucumber
• Tomato
• Cilantro
• Onion
• Egg
• Cilantro/Coriander Leaves
• Green Chili
• Cashew Nuts
• Lime Juice
• Olive Oil
• Yogurt
• Pink Salt
• Honey

What do we need to make the salad dressing?

• ½ cup of Cilantro/Coriander leaves
• 1 Green Chili
• 12 pieces of Socked Cashew Nuts
• Juice from ½ of a Lime
• ½ cup Fresh Yogurt
• 2 teaspoons of Organic Honey
• Salt to taste

Which veggies do we need to make the salad?

• Green leaves lettuce/Ice burg lettuce
• Blanched broccoli
• Boiled beetroot cut into cubes
• Cucumber slices
• Sliced tomatoes
• 1 medium sliced onion
• 2 hard boil eggs
• Pre-prepared salad dressing

Step-by-step procedures to prepare the salad

1. Salad Dressing:

You can start by making the salad dressing. The future of a good salad depends on a good salad dressing.

Take ½ cup of fresh cilantro or coriander leaves in a mixer grinder or food processor. Now one by one add 1 green chili, 12 pieces of soaked cashew nuts, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, juice from half a lime, ½ cup fresh thick yogurt, and 2 teaspoons of organic honey to balance the pungency and pink salt as per the taste in the same pot. Grind a smooth mixture out of these ingredients.

2. Blanching and boiling of veggies:

This part is completely optional. If you want to get things too healthy, just skip any kind of blanching or boiling.

Take 1 pot of water to boil and add small pieces of broccoli to it. Blanch these pieces for a few seconds to a minute. Immediately turn off the heat and strain them using a colander.

Now it’s time to give these green pearls a nice ice bath. Pour them into a bowl of ice water and let them submerge for a few minutes. Transfer them to another bowl and store them in a cool place for later use.

It’s time to boil the beetroot. Boil it whole for a few minutes. Turn off the heat, take it out of the water, run it through normal water, and let it cool down. After cooling down, cut the beetroot into big cubes or just as per your liking.

3. Cutting and slicing:

Now it’s a very interesting part!!

A good salad is 90% of its perfectly cut veggies. Who would like a big chunk of raw beetroot or an uneven piece of cucumber in his mouth while having salad? So it’s important to cut your veggies precisely.

Cut onion into thin small slices.

The cucumber should be sliced into even half a moon pieces.

You can cut lettuce leaves into 2 or keep them whole if the leaf is small.

Cherry tomatoes can be kept whole and medium tomatoes can be sliced into 4.

Raw beetroot should be diced into medium pieces and boiled ones can be kept as big cubes.

Break down broccoli flowers into small pieces if it is served raw.

4. Preparing lettuce leaves:

You may think, what’s so significant in preparing lettuce leaves?

Well, it is one of the vital steps while assembling a salad dish.

Wet soggy lettuce leaves result in a dull and bland salad. To avoid that you have to wash those lettuce leaves under running water.

After washing, set those leaves on the kitchen towel. Let those papers sock all the moisture from the leaves.

You can also use a salad spinner to dry out your those leaves.

5. Assembling and garnishing:

Take a large glass or transparent serving dish.

Firstly set the lettuce pieces at the bottom, followed by broccoli, beetroot, cucumber, tomatoes, and onion slices.

After the veggies part, set 2 hard boil egg slices on top. Now just pour the thick creamy dressing on top.

More Recipes to try:

• Authentic Indian Chicken Curry Recipe
• Paneer Butter Masala Recipe
• Asian Chicken Recipes with Noodles
• Asian Chicken Recipes for Dinner
• Creamy Lemon Chicken Recipe
• Pepper Garlic Prawns Recipe
• Old Fashioned Pancake Recipe
• Dal Khichdi Recipe (Hotchpotch)
• Thai Soup Recipe (with Chicken, Prawns, and Mushrooms)
• Masala Chai Recipe (Spiced Milk Tea)

I have a very close relationship with salads. As a patient of PCOD, I found my cure to balance crazy hormones in salads.

Who said healthy salads can’t be tasty?

Try my recipe today. You may get your new favorite salad dish! Please share your feedback through comments. Thank You!