Salad recipes for healthy diets using good carbs
There are different types of salads to think about...
- Green salads What is better on a warm summer day than a cool, green salad? Simple tends to be better. No more than three different types of greens for a purity of flavor that gives a salad character. If mixing, make sure they complement each other! Don't mix a delicate lettuce, such as mache, with a hardy lettuce, such as romaine.
- Vegetable salads A salad of vegetables makes a great side dish, but can also become the main component of a dish in a good carbs healthy diet. Like green salads, simple is better. Mix two, three or as much as five to give a dish focused character. Any more and the salad becomes a jumbled mess.
When I think of vegetable salads, two ideas come to my mind first...
- French cruditˇs
- Russian composed salads I will never forget staying with a family in Moscow at New Years and helping to prepare salads. I had always thought of salads including greens of some sort. Naturally, when the family discussed making salads for dinner, I pictured lettuce. I couldn't have been more wrong!
They prepared different interesting salads using cold region vegetables...
And it wasn't cole slaw!
- Potato salads Potatoes are great year-round, but I love a warm potato salad on cold nights.
Here are some great salad greens with ideas how to use them...
Use these guidelines to create your own salad recipes...
Salad greens
Here are some great salad greens with ideas how to use them...
Create Your Own Salads
Use these guidelines to create your own great salad recipes...
