summer's here....any salad recipes?

flutterbyuk25

I've just bought a delish low fat dressing from M&S (on offer 2 for £3). It's chilli citrus flavour and you only need a tiny bit of it.

I tend to have salad most days for work in spring/summer/autumn. I do slimming world and am veggie so I tend to have the salad base made of spinach, cuc, toms, sweetcorn (tinned) and spring onion. I sometimes add radish or celery or carrot if I have any in. I then add either cold new pots (with or without mayo), pasta (with or without pesto), hard boiled eggs, rice, cold quorn sausages, tinned beans or couscous. I try to vary it so I'm not eating the same meal every day!

You could add chopped fresh herbs maybe? basil/mint etc?

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CH27

Rice salad with peas, sweetcorn & chopped spring onion.

Pink.

Hi jackie,

My favourite is caesar salad. These threads may help:

summer's here....any salad recipes?

Salad dressing -How do you make yours?

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Where's the Simple Potato Salad Recipe?

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Three Bean Salad

I'll add your thread to the existing salad recipes thread later to keep the ideas together.

Pink

song_of_calliope

I love mixed salad greens with tomatoes, soft rindless goat's cheese, a few walnuts and some low fat balsamic dressing. Also the classic stilton and pear or apple with a few walnuts, also with balsamic. These aren't as diet-friendly as some salads but they're delicious and you don't need a lot of cheese or walnuts in either one.

On slimming world, pasta is free so I often have a pasta salad with tomatoes, chopped basil, and either low fat honey mustard or balsamic dressing. Sometimes I add sweetcorn to keep it syn-free and other times a bit of feta and a few black olives.

meritaten

I love couscous and will happily eat it cold - especially if it contains roasted veg (any veg - I believe they can all benefit from a good roasting!). Pasta - hmmm, the same but I also like it with a cold tomato based sauce and spiced up with a bit of tabasco sauce.
other veggies which are good raw in salads are avocado, baby corn on cobs, mange tout or sugar snap peas, grated or chopped carrots, mushrooms.
and dont forget the herbs, parsley, basil, mint, chives and lemon balm (latin name melissa) can all be included to add a flavour without using an oil or mayo dressing.
Fruit is a good addition to salads - try orange or grapefruit with watercress or rocket. Apple goes beautifully with Iceberg or Cos lettuce. Grapes go with almost anything but especially goats cheese or a soft cheese like brie with a nice crisp green salad. experiment! just try putting together flavours which please you - I like a mix of apple, nuts, finely chopped lettuce (iceberg usually) with a little mayo as a binder - and its only a LITTLE mayo - about a heaped teaspoonful! for a big cereal bowl of salad mixed up.
finally - Season it! a bit of salt and pepper makes a big difference to the flavour!
my mum often complains she gets bored with salad - but as she only ever uses lettuce cucumber tomato and spring onion - I am not surprised!

ladylouise62

I like to add some variety by grated veg - carrot, Daikon/Mooli (large radish), turnip, white cabbage, red cabbage, courgette. Sliced Fennel, Radish and Celery will add lots of flavour, raw sugarsnaps, cauliflower & water chestnuts add texture as do beansprouts - but if you are bored with shop-bought beansprouts think about doing your own and sprouting other stuff e.g. peanuts - they are lovely sprouted.
For dressing, don't just use the same one but maybe buy (or make) a basic one and add different herbs/onion/garlic/chili or using lemon instead of the vinegar or maybe orange juice, and of course a reduced fat yoghurt can make a nice base for a dressing especially on the grated stuff.

thenanny2die4

My current favourite salad has a base of any leaves you like (I'm using lollo-rosso, rocket and giant red mustard from the garden at the moment) topped with puy or beluga lentils, roasted butternut squash and a little crumbled goats' cheese, then drizzled with a good balsamic reduction.

I also love iceberg lettuce with cubed cucumber, sliced spring onions, cherry tomatoes, a few croutons and parmesan shavings (use a vegetable peeler) all drizzled with low fat salad cream.

Sassers

Hi there.. :wave:
my fave salad is a huge handful of rocket leaves, topped off with goats cheese, warm honey and a few twists of black pepper. it lush and so easy to prepare....
Oh and maybe try pickled capers - not the brine ones though - they perk up ordinary salads and are nom nom nom

outofmoney

I have to make up some dinners for eating out. (Can't afford takeaway!)

I have no way of heating so they will have to be cold.

I'm thinking ham, new pots, and veg but not sure what veg to have. The thought of some veg cold doesn't appeal, and I have to be really careful not to eat too much fibre.

Other than carrots, what other veg can you think of?

newlywed

you could do coleslaw?

or sweetcorn is nice cold, or beetroot?

If any of those fit your fiber requirements?