· Made with easily available ingredients
· No elaborate cooking required
· Rich in more than one nutrient
· Each salad is unique in taste
· A wide variety to choose from
Garlicky Cabbage and Spinach Salad
Antioxidant Rich Quick Healthy Salads
Antioxidants are the substances that help in removing the potentially harmful substances called “free radicals” from our body. They prevent or stop inflammation and cell damage in your body. They also help in enhancing your body’s immunity. Antioxidants available are plenty in Nature. Explore them by way of a variety of fruits and vegetables and combine them to form a quick healthy salad bowl.
Gain the benefit of antioxidant Lycopene from Tomato Salad, Lutein and Vitamin A from Kale and Avocado Salad and loads of vitamin C (25.8 mg) from Fruit and Vegetable Salad with Low Calorie Thousand Island Dressing.
Kale and Avocado Healthy Salad
Read more about Benefits of Vitamin A and Benefits of Vitamin C.
Quick Healthy Salads Under 30 calories
These are pure veggie and fruit based salads. No cereal or sprouts added, no cheese and cream based dressings too. So they perfectly fit a detox diet and low carb weight loss diet.
You can opt for simple and easy to make quick salads like Tomato Cucumber and Onion Salad (15 calories) or Spicy Kachumber (16 calories), which are made using common ingredients found in almost every households. A perfect play of spices and herbs with fruits and veggies is the essence of these recipes.
Spicy Kachumber
Citrus Salads are also quite nourishing and pleasing to most palates. We have combined the most famous citrus fruits orange and sweet lime with veggies to create healthy options like Lettuce Orange and Spinach Salad (41 calories) and Sweet Lime and Pepper Salad (44 calories).
Lettuce, Orange and Spinach Salad
Quick Healthy Salads with Healthy Dressings
While some people find it easier to combine nourishing ingredients to make a healthy salad, they find it difficult to create their own healthy salad dressing. Most of them rely on and love to indulge into cheese based or mayonnaise based dressings or use oodles of oil to make the dressing. The trick here is to replace them with protein rich curd based dressings or include fruits to make healthy dressings.
A simple and tasty treat using curds based dressing is Fruit and Vegetable Salad with Low Calorie Thousand Island Dressing and a fruit based dressing is Apple and Lettuce Salad with Melon Dressing. Unique though it may sound, but the melon dressing made with muskmelon puree, cumin seeds, coriander and black pepper is what lends the delicious taste to the fruits in this salad.
Apple and Lettuce Salad with Melon Dressing ( Iron Rich Recipe )
Quick Healthy Salads for Work
Carrying and eating healthy at work is a challenge. When it comes to salads you can keep a few pointers in mind to go healthy.
1. Make use of crispy veggies like carrot, zucchini, capsicum and so on….
2. If veggies call for par-boiling, cook them just about 50%. Over cooking them might render them to be soft and that’s not what you would love to bite into your salad.
3. Chop and toss the veggies and fruits separately and carry the dressing in a separate air-tight container. Combine the two just before eating.
4. Try and keep a few healthy roasted seeds like flax seeds or sunflower seeds in a dabba at work. Sprinkle them onto your salad while tossing with the dressing. These are a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, which keeps inflammation and chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart diseases at bay. Check more Recipes Rich in Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Try wholesome combos like Beetroot Peppers Carrot health Salad for Work and Rocket Leaves Zucchini Red Pumpkin Healthy Lunch Salad.
Rocket Leaves, Zucchini Red Pumpkin Healthy Lunch Salad
Toss these quick salads in a jiffy without much advance planning or preparation and dwell into their fresh taste and crisp texture while welcoming health forever!!
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