Being a hardcore indian, the only kind of salad came with carrot, cucumber, beetroot cut in a plate. Other vegetables came in form of curries. When my chinese friend started inviting me for lunches, initially it was difficult for me to even like her food. It was bland, it was mostly veggies. Then came the appreciation of taste for raw vegetables. There are a few recipes that can give you a good start in salads section.
Some of my favorites are:
First one which is the most recent one is sweet potato salad. I love this recipe. Its got everything. Its super easy.
http://minimalistbaker.com/roasted-sweet-potato-chickpea-salad/
Second one is the one my friend made for me. Sesame cold noodles salad. There are lots of recipes of this one. Google it. It asks for tahini sauce which you can easily make at home. Add peanuts and green onion.
Next salad is pasta salad. Just boil pasta with brocolli corn. In olive oil, add zucchini and capsicum. Stir them a bit, add boiled pasta brocolli corn for like 2 minutes and remove. Top it with lettuce, romaine one, walnuts, pinenuts, cheese. For dresssing, use olive oil, balsamic vinegar, mustard sauce, tabasco, sea salt, ranch dressing, brown sugar or honey. And its amazing.
Fourth one is my kind of sweet salad. Kale cranberry salad. To start with, get one of those kits from safeway or wholefoods then experiment with your dressing. After a while, you will buy your own ingredients and make it. Leave it with dresssing for some time so kale becomes a little softer. You can add pickled beets to any salad.
There are lots of soups out there. I find manchow soup really healthy and easy. It takes 10 minutes to make it.
Try noodle bowls too like ramen noodles. If you eat eggs, whisk eggs add to oil till they get an almost bhurji consistency then add water, carrot, zucchini. After 5 minutes, add diced tomatoes, corriander, spinach, salt pepper, boil sphagetti separately. Mix them up and serve with peanuts, green onion.
There is this sweet potato salad where you mash sweet potatoes and add onion, tomatoes, corriander, lemon, ranch dressing with some tomato sauce , honey and salt. It tastes awesome too.
Of course, we indians have our own versions of healthy soups in sambhar, rasam, dal, thoran, pineapple pulissery. So don't leave indian cuisine.
I just tried this sella rice, its worth buying too. It makes amazing rice bowls. Its best for pineapple fried rice and some kind of rice my husband makes with hoisin sauce and peanut butter.
If you are vegan ,try tofu scramble with zucchini spinach capsicum cilantro with indian spices. Its yummy.
When we travelled from seattle to portland in train, they had these oats which were so simple. Just make oats, heat up milk, serve with brown sugar and dry fruits. Warm food on cold days.
All of these recipes are on google. Do try them. They bring a change to life.
Some of my favorites are:
First one which is the most recent one is sweet potato salad. I love this recipe. Its got everything. Its super easy.
http://minimalistbaker.com/roasted-sweet-potato-chickpea-salad/
Second one is the one my friend made for me. Sesame cold noodles salad. There are lots of recipes of this one. Google it. It asks for tahini sauce which you can easily make at home. Add peanuts and green onion.
Next salad is pasta salad. Just boil pasta with brocolli corn. In olive oil, add zucchini and capsicum. Stir them a bit, add boiled pasta brocolli corn for like 2 minutes and remove. Top it with lettuce, romaine one, walnuts, pinenuts, cheese. For dresssing, use olive oil, balsamic vinegar, mustard sauce, tabasco, sea salt, ranch dressing, brown sugar or honey. And its amazing.
Fourth one is my kind of sweet salad. Kale cranberry salad. To start with, get one of those kits from safeway or wholefoods then experiment with your dressing. After a while, you will buy your own ingredients and make it. Leave it with dresssing for some time so kale becomes a little softer. You can add pickled beets to any salad.
There are lots of soups out there. I find manchow soup really healthy and easy. It takes 10 minutes to make it.
Try noodle bowls too like ramen noodles. If you eat eggs, whisk eggs add to oil till they get an almost bhurji consistency then add water, carrot, zucchini. After 5 minutes, add diced tomatoes, corriander, spinach, salt pepper, boil sphagetti separately. Mix them up and serve with peanuts, green onion.
There is this sweet potato salad where you mash sweet potatoes and add onion, tomatoes, corriander, lemon, ranch dressing with some tomato sauce , honey and salt. It tastes awesome too.
Of course, we indians have our own versions of healthy soups in sambhar, rasam, dal, thoran, pineapple pulissery. So don't leave indian cuisine.
I just tried this sella rice, its worth buying too. It makes amazing rice bowls. Its best for pineapple fried rice and some kind of rice my husband makes with hoisin sauce and peanut butter.
If you are vegan ,try tofu scramble with zucchini spinach capsicum cilantro with indian spices. Its yummy.
When we travelled from seattle to portland in train, they had these oats which were so simple. Just make oats, heat up milk, serve with brown sugar and dry fruits. Warm food on cold days.
All of these recipes are on google. Do try them. They bring a change to life.
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