Healthy salads are the easiest way to increase body tone and improve immunity. Today, the ingredients for them can be found in the store at any time of the year, and it’s a sin not to use it. Feel tired, your skin has faded, your hair falls out and your nails break? Make a vitamin salad.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- For white cabbage salad:
- - 250 g of white cabbage;
- - 2 carrots and a cucumber;
- - 5-6 green lettuce leaves;
- - 3 branches of dill;
- - 60 ml of vegetable oil;
- - salt;
- For red cabbage salad:
- - 300-350 g of red cabbage;
- - 50 g of green onions;
- - 15 g of dill, parsley and cilantro;
- - 100 g of walnuts;
- - 40 g of black currant;
- - 50 ml of olive oil;
- - salt;
- For strawberry salad:
- - 250 g of fresh strawberries;
- - 1 avocado;
- - 2 cucumbers;
- - half a lemon (for avocado);
- - 60 ml of olive oil;
- - 40 ml of peanut butter;
- - 20 ml of lemon juice;
- - 1 tsp poppy;
- - 1/3 tsp ground black pepper and salt;
- For carrot salad:
- - 2 large carrots;
- - 1 celery root;
- - half a lemon;
- - 100 g of small raisins;
- - 5-6 pieces of dried apricots;
- - 2 tangerines;
- - 120 g of natural yogurt;
- - 50 g of liquid honey;
- - 5 walnuts;
- - 30 g of peeled pumpkin seeds;
- - 15 g of sesame seeds;
- For beetroot salad:
- - 2 large beets;
- - 1 orange;
- - half a lemon;
- - 4 sprigs of parsley;
- - 40 g of sugar;
- - 40 ml of vegetable oil and apple cider vinegar;
- - salt.
Instruction manual
1
Vitamin Salad with White Cabbage
Wash all vegetables and pat dry. Cut the cucumbers lengthwise into halves, and then crosswise into half circles. Shred cabbage leaves. Cut the carrots into strips or grate on a coarse grater. Grind dill.
2
Combine all salad ingredients in a deep plate, season with vegetable oil, salt and mix well. Allow a healthy snack to brew for at least half an hour.
3
Red cabbage salad
Pour the walnuts into a sturdy bag and walk on it with a rolling pin or grind the kernels in a coffee grinder. Thinly cut red cabbage, remember it a little with a spoon or hands to give juice, and mix with nut crumbs.
4
Cut the thick stems from the branches of greenery, chop it finely with onions and shift to the bulk of the salad. Add a handful of currant berries there, stir everything thoroughly, season with oil, salt and leave for half an hour.
5
Strawberry Salad with Avocado
Cut the avocado along and rotate the halves in different directions to pull out the stone. Cut the flesh into small slices and sprinkle with lemon juice against darkening. Remove the green ponytails from the berries and cut them into quarters, peeled cucumbers into thin circles.
6
Put all the salad ingredients on a flat dish. Pour lemon juice, olive and nut oil into a jar with a lid, pour poppy seeds, pepper and salt. Close the dishes and shake vigorously several times. Dress with strawberries, avocado and cucumber dressing.
7
Carrot salad
Peel the root vegetables, grate on a Korean grater and squeeze the juice from the lemon on them. Divide the tangerines into slices, open them with a knife and remove the juicy center. Soak the raisins and dried apricots in hot water for 10 minutes, fold in a colander and chop.
8
Sprinkle nuts and seeds into a mortar and rub them with a pestle. Put all the foods in the salad bowl. Mix honey and yogurt in a cup, pour into salad and mix. Sprinkle it with sesame seeds.
9
Beetroot Salad
Peel the beets and grate coarsely. Squeeze the juice from citrus fruits and beat with vegetable oil, vinegar and sugar until the dry ingredient dissolves. Soak the vegetable slices in this sauce for 4 hours by placing them in the refrigerator.
10
Drain excess liquid from beetroot salad, season with salt and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Useful advice
Wilted greens can be revived by dropping it in a glass of water with 20 ml of vinegar dissolved in it.
A salad will be even healthier if you add flaxseed oil to it.