Best Salad Recipe for Weight Loss
This salad recipe is the perfect way to boost your weight loss goals because of containing low calories and healthy ingredients. Let's take a look at the ingredients and making procedure.
Servings 2 people
Ingredients
Salad Dressing
- ½ cup Cilantro/Coriander leaves
- 1 Green Chili
- 12 piece Socked Cashew Nuts
- ½ tbsp Lime juice
- 2 tbsp Organic Honey
- Salt as per your taste
Veggies
- 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
Instructions
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.
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.
Cutting and slicing
- 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.
Preparing lettuce leaves
- 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.
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.
- Before serving the dish to your guest, just pour the thick creamy dressing on top. You can mix it all together before serving or also can serve it as it is and your guest should mix the deliciousness before munching.
