To make the salad dietary, its basis is to make vegetables, herbs. If the recipe uses meat or seafood, they need to be boiled or baked, not fried. Sauces for low-calorie snacks should be prepared from oil, low-fat sour cream, citrus juice, natural yogurt.
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Dietary vinaigrette
Ingredients:
- beets - 280-300 g;
- carrots - 280-300 g;
- beans - 120-140 g;
- green peas (canned food) - 120-140 g;
- olive oil - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
- salt, spices, any herbs - to taste.
Cooking:
Wrap beets right in the skin in a large sheet of foil. Bake in the oven until soft. The preparedness of the vegetable can be checked directly through the coating with a sharp knife.
Cook carrots and beans until soft. Legumes can be used in canned form. Both white and red beans will do. Drain the marinade from the peas. Dry it lightly on a colander.
Cut the finished carrot into neat medium cubes. Also grind the cooled beets. Mix everything with peas and beans.
For seasoning in high-quality olive oil, send your favorite spices, fine salt and chopped greens (green onions decorate the finished dish very much). The latter is added to taste. Greens are an optional ingredient in such a salad. Pour the resulting composition into a snack.
Cheese Salad
Ingredients:
- mozzarella - 180-200 g;
- fresh basil - 1 bunch;
- tomatoes - 600-650 g;
- olive oil - half a liter;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- lemon / lime - 1 pc.;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- grain mustard - 2 dessert spoons.
Cooking:
You need to start the process of preparing a delicious light salad with aromatic mustard dressing. Squeeze a small citrus (it does not matter - lemon or lime) into the bowl. Carefully choose from the fresh all the bones - even the smallest. Add mustard to it. You can choose to your taste and sweet, and very spicy. With a whisk or two forks folded together, mix everything until smooth.
Send any spices to the resulting composition. Usually enough black ground pepper is enough. Squeeze in the sauce and garlic. Its amount can be reduced or increased to your liking. Whisk lightly. Pour the mixture into a half-liter bottle with oil. Close the container tightly with a lid. Shake. Put in the cold for at least 3-4 hours. Shake well before using the sauce.
For such an appetizer, you need to try to choose juicy ripe sweetish tomatoes. Cut them into medium random pieces. Juice, which appeared during grinding, can be used as an addition to dressing. Dice the cheese into larger cubes so that it is clearly felt in the dish.
Torn washed and dried basil directly with your hands. Mix it with other prepared ingredients. Salt everything, generously pour sauce from a bottle. The remaining dressing can be used to make any salads. It is fragrant, tasty, low-calorie.
Salad "Color"
Ingredients:
- Feta (cheese) - 180-200 g;
- cucumber - 1 pc.;
- tomatoes - 2-4 pcs.;
- sweet pepper - 2-3 pcs. (different color);
- red onion - 1 head;
- lemon - lobule;
- salt and seasoning mixture of crushed thyme, oregano, dill, colored peppers - to taste.
Cooking:
Rinse all vegetables declared in the recipe with running water. Grind the cucumber in circles, cheese, tomatoes, peppers of different colors (for example, red, orange yellow) into cubes, red onions with half rings / rings. Put everything together in a common bowl.
This diet treat is prepared without dressing. It is only necessary to sprinkle it with all the declared spices, add salt and sprinkle with citrus juice. Before taking the sample, you should give the dish a little insist that all its components “get to know” and exchange aromas.
Snack with nuts and prunes
Ingredients:
- beets - 380-400 g;
- prunes (dried) - 80-100 g;
- walnuts (peeled) - 40-60 g;
- low fat sour cream - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
- salt, spices, granulated sugar to taste.
Cooking:
Rinse hands thoroughly with each prune berry. After that, fill it with warm water and leave for about a quarter of an hour. Do not use boiling water, otherwise dried fruits will simply boil and ruin the taste of the salad. Discard the steamed product on a sieve and allow excess liquid to drain. Finely chop each berry.
Beets in any convenient way to cook until soft. To do this, it can be baked in the oven, pre-wrapped in foil or boiled. Peel the finished root crop, grind it with a coarse grater. Chop nuts with a sharp knife or process in a special blender nozzle.
Combine in a deep dish all prepared foods. Add to them sand, salt, spices to taste. Season the treat with a low-fat dairy product. In addition to sour cream, thick kefir or unsweetened natural yogurt is also suitable for snacks. You can also add a little dry or fresh crushed garlic to the latter.
Of zucchini
Ingredients:
- small young zucchini - 1 pc.;
- parsley - 1/3 of a bunch (any grade);
- lemon / lime - half;
- mustard (regular or Dijon) - half a small spoon;
- olive oil - ¼ st;
- soy sauce - 1 small spoon;
- salt and garlic to taste.
Cooking:
If you managed to find a young vegetable, peeling off it is not necessary. The optimal size of zucchini is slightly larger than a very large cucumber. By the way, suitable for salad and zucchini. Rinse the vegetable and pat dry with paper towels.
Chopped prepared zucchini with a thin long straw. Vegetable cutting will help to simplify your task. If the hostess does not have it in stock, an ordinary knife will do. Add a large pinch of salt to the resulting straw, mix well. Tighten the bowl with salted zucchini film, remove in the cold for 60-70 minutes.
For dressing, mix the mustard, crushed garlic cloves in a bowl. The latter can be taken from 1 to 4 pcs. Squeeze a mixture of citrus juice. If necessary, pour it into the mass through a sieve to remove the bones. After oil, add oil. The last ingredient will be soy sauce. It is best to choose a classic product with a liquid consistency.
Remove the squash from a cool place. Press out with your hands. Add chopped greens to them. In addition to parsley, you can use cilantro. Pour all the fragrant dressing. Give refreshments to infuse for at least half an hour. Transfer the vegetable salad into a beautiful dish and serve as a side dish to boiled chicken breast or other low-calorie meat, poultry dish.
Salad "Whisk" (or "Brush")
Ingredients:
- beets, carrots, apple - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- olive oil, salt to taste.
Cooking:
In order for the snack to really contribute to losing weight and cleansing the body, all its components must be used raw. Peel the beets and carrots. Leave the apple with the peel, removing only the seed box.
Rub all prepared fruits on medium or large grater. Mix components, add salt and pour oil.
This salad not only speeds up the process of weight loss, but also cleanses the intestines.
Diet chicken appetizer
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 2 pcs.;
- celery root and sweet pepper of any color - 1 pc.;
- natural unsweetened yogurt - 1 full glass;
- petiole celery - 3 petioles;
- soy sauce - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
- vinegar (you can take apple, wine) - 2 tbsp.;
- green onions, cilantro - 2 bunches;
- salt to taste.
Cooking:
Rinse the chicken, dry and cut into small pieces. Send to a skillet with a little salted water. Cook until whitening. Pour vinegar, soy sauce into the pan and simmer the chicken over low heat for 6-7 minutes.
Pepper to get rid of seeds. Cut into medium slices. It is best to take yellow or orange so that the vegetable adds bright colors to the salad.
Peel and chop the celery root with a coarse grater. Squeeze the resulting chips from excess liquid so that the treat does not turn out to be too watery. But do not be too zealous. Chips should not be dry, in such a salad its juiciness is important. Celery petioles need to be arbitrarily cut. All prepared ingredients - mix.
For dressing, you need to salt the yogurt and add chopped greens to it. Pour her treat. Serve the dish immediately. It is suitable even for a festive table.
With red slightly salted fish
Ingredients:
- salad mix - 180-200 g;
- slightly salted fish - 120-150 g;
- lemon / lime - 1 pc.;
- salt, pepper, oil - to taste.
Cooking:
For such a low-calorie dish, you can use only green salad or salad mix. All leaves must be separated from each other, washed thoroughly and dried. To do this, you can simply fold the leaves in a kitchen towel, twist them. Next - send the prepared greens to a large salad bowl, previously tearing it large by hand directly.
Squeeze juice from selected citrus. Strain it and pour into a container with a lid. Add oil, salt, pepper. The latter is best grinded right before use. In this case, its taste will be brighter and more interesting. Close the container with all components of the sauce. Shake the jar well to mix all the components of the sauce. If it is not possible to achieve uniformity in this way, you can use a small whisk.
Cut slightly salted red fish into small pieces. Both salmon and trout will do. Send the resulting slices into a bowl of salad. Sprinkle everything with the resulting sauce. Immediately serve an original snack for dinner. It will be a great option for dinner or a hearty snack during the diet.