3 Salad Recipes that Make You Tasty

Contents:

• Medical Video: Satisfying Salads That Don't Suck
  
• Benefits of salads for health
  
• Could there be a filling salad?
  
• Spicy chickpeas salad
  
• Fruit salad
  
• Mexican Salad
  

Medical Video: Satisfying Salads That Don't Suck

It feels like eating salad is no longer something that is foreign in Indonesia. Although known as Western food, salads are actually one of the culinary traditions in Indonesia. Call it fresh vegetables in Sundanese cuisine, or traditional menus such as lotek, gado-gado, and salad.

Benefits of salads for health

Why is a salad called a healthy food? Salad has many health benefits, such as:

• Its high fiber content can reduce cholesterol levels and prevent constipation. Not only that, high fiber can also make you full quickly, so eat less and help you lose weight
• Eat lots of 'green' salads, of course you will get antioxidants (vitamins C and E, folic acid, lycopene and alpha and beta-carotene) that are high in your blood level. Antioxidants are useful for protecting the body from free radicals
• The green salad has around 150 calories even less. It doesn't matter if you consume large quantities. You should add fruit or vegetables, not add dressing-it, or other supplements that have fat content

Could there be a filling salad?

If you want to eat a salad but are afraid of not being full, the following three recipes can be tried at home.

Spicy chickpeas salad

Ingredients:

• 400 g beans
• ½ teaspoon of coconut oil
• 1 clove of garlic, crush it
• Salt + pepper for flavor
• ½ teaspoon of curry powder
• ¼ teaspoon cumin
• ¼ teaspoon of fine coriander (which has been crushed)
• ½ red chilies, cut into pieces
• ½ yellow chili, cut into pieces (you can replace it with green chili)
• 30 g of feta cheese
• 30 g roasted pine nuts

Seasoning:

• Salt + pepper for flavor
• Juice of ½ lime
• 1 teaspoon of olive oil
• ¼ curry powder

How to make:

1. Heat ½ teaspoon of coconut oil in a small panic with medium heat. Add beans, garlic, curry powder, cumin, smooth coriander, then stir with a spoon so that the spicy flavor can cover the whole bean
2. Add salt and pepper to taste, and continue stirring in medium heat for about 5 minutes.
3. In a separate bowl, cut spices and red peppers.
4. In other bowls, combine all the ingredients and stir well, add salt and pepper.
5. Pour seasoning on warm beans and stir until well distributed.
6. Sprinkle roasted pine nuts and crumbs of feta cheese over the salad and serve when warm.

Nutritional content:

Beans contain protein. Your body will convert proteins into amino acids, which function to regulate the health of your body's tissues. However, the protein in beans is not complete, so you should add it with other nuts. Beans are a rich source of fiber; serves to control your blood sugar level. Fiber can slow digestion, allowing sugar to move slowly in the digestive tract to your bloodstream.

Fruit salad

Ingredients:

• 1 large, thinly sliced ​​apple
• 1 large pear that has been sliced ​​thin and long in shape
• 1 stalk of celery that has been sliced
• 4 ounces of cheese crumbs
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of apple cider
• 3 tablespoons of cut beans
• Other fruits according to taste

How to make:

1. Add apples, pears, other fruits of your choice, cheese and celery to a large bowl. Mix until the cheese is evenly distributed, but don't let the fruits break.
2. In a small bowl, add olive oil and apple cider.
3. Add the mixture of olive oil and apple cider to a mixed fruit bowl. Stir until the oil is evenly distributed in all parts.
4. After the salad is finished, transfer it to the plate, sprinkle the surface of the salad with beans.

Nutritional content:

Apples and pears contain vitamin C; one of the antioxidants that strengthens the immune system. Potassium which is good for heart health is also found in pears and apples. Both do not contain fat. Calories on pears are 57, while apples contain 95 calories.

Mexican Salad

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch of young spinach
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 basket of grape tomatoes
• 2 corn cobs
• 1 box of feta cheese
• ½ turnip
• 2-3 onions
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 green paprika
• Pepper

Dressing:

• 1/3 cup of lemon juice
• 1/3 cup of olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• ½ teaspoon of salt

How to make:

1. Cut the peppers to 1.5-2 cm in size, half the grape tomatoes, cucumber slices, turnips, and onions
2. Roast corn cobs
3. Combine all salad ingredients
4. Mix ingredients dressingthen pour it into the salad

Nutritional content:

Spinach contains vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, vitamin B6, omega-3 fats, phosphorus; everything is very good for the body and reduces your risk of heart disease. Paprika also contains capsaicin which is good for the body.

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