Recipe - How To Make Your Tasty Vegetable Salad

Although making a salad can be as easy as you think it is, but most of the time, you just need to consider what kind you are making and pick the ingredients appropriately. Vegetable salads can be prepared in various ways, depending on the look you want as there are different types of vegetable salads. The processes are also quite similar, it is just the combination of recipes that differ.

A plate of salad always looks really attractive, the color combinations appear beautiful and tasty. The more colorful it appears, the more nutritional benefits are acquired in the consumption of just a plate of vegetable salad. It can be eaten as breakfast, lunch, dinner and even as snacks. Making a simple change in your diet by adding salad almost everyday can pay off with plenty of health benefits.

Nutritional Benefits Of Vegetable Salad:

1. The fiber content of salad help to reduce cholesterol levels and prevent constipation.
2. It can serve as means to control weight and loss weight as fiber appears to make you fuller.
3. It contains powerful antioxidants.Antioxidants are substance that helps protect the body from damage caused by harmful molecules called free radicals.
4. It lowers the risk of many disease particularly cancer.
5. Olive oil also acts as an antioxidants. That aids to lower the risk of many diseases particularly cancer.So it is advisable to avoid high caloric salad dressing to enjoy totally combinations of nutritional benefits of salad.

How To Prepare Vegetable Salad

• Ingredients Needed:

1. Cabbage
2. Carrot
3. Lettuce.
4. Onions
5. Tomatoes
6. Cucumber
7. Boiled eggs
8. Fish
9. Sweet corn
10. Olive oil
11. More veggies available at your disposal

• Preparation:

1. Boil and remove bones from the fish
2. Sieve the sweetcorn
3. Wash other ingredient to be free of stones, dust and sand if present
4. Dice all the ingredients in small pieces; please note if is not to be consumed immediately and in the absence of a refrigerator do not mix the ingredients together yet. But dice separately in the different plates to avoid getting sour.
5. Mix every ingredient in a bowl
6. Arrange in a flat tray to allow air circulation
7. Spread some olive oil on it and then refrigerate

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