Eating Salad is the most convenient and easy habit that one can adopt in today’s health conscious environment. Restaurants offer special salads in their appetizer menu and there are cafes which cater for sandwiches and salad. A salad is cool, crunchy and fun to eat and has lots of textures in it. You can customize them to include the fruits and vegetables that appeal to you the most or whatever is in season or in hand.
This one is simple salad with rice and creates a wholesome meal. It is a favorite in our house.
Ingredients
- 1 cup boiled rice (1/3 rd cup raw rice). It could be any rice that you eat brown or white
- 1 capsicum chopped
- ½ cup Mixed bell peppers chopped
- ½ cup chopped and boiled carrot
- 1 spring onion or normal onion finely chopped
- Few mint and coriander leaves
- 1 cup finely chopped cabbage and better to take it out from hot water once
- ½ cup boiled chickpeas
- 1 bread slice cut and fried or toasted in square pieces
- Few nuts of your choice
- Cheese for garnishing
For the dressing
- ½ Tbsp vinegar. If you have use Balsamic vinegar otherwise any vinegar is okay
- 5 Tbsp Olive oil
- Salt and white pepper to taste
- ¼ tsp mustard powder
- Pinch of sugar
- 1 ground garlic
- 2 tbsp Tomato ketchup
Method
- Mix all the ingredients required for dressing
- Beat for a minute and set aside
- Mix all the main ingredients except bread and cheese
- You can serve it on platter or on a bed of lettuce leaves or a jelly mold
- Sprinkle the dressing and garnish with bread and cheese
- There is no hard and fast rule you can mix it in the salad itself.
Variations- Pl use any kind of vegetables like corn, red cabbage or blanched beans..etc whatever your family likes.
Salad gives us lot of fiber, helps us to cut calories and give us more fulfilling meal. You can also choose different kinds of dressings as per your palate.
