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Original salad, instructions for use
What ingredients to put in your original salad?
What is a salad? Simply a mixture of ingredients between vegetables, fruits, oilseeds, herbs, seeds, or vegetable or animal protein which, together, promise a complete and satisfying dish. If the traditional salads continue to seduce the crowds like the Caesar salad with chicken, nicoise with olives, caprese with tomato, Greek with cucumber, or even hot goat, classic bistro, we can also add a hint of originality in its salad to think outside the box. So to surprise the taste buds of our guests, we do not hesitate to add flax seeds, flowers, a vinaigrette with soy sauce, olive oil infused with herbs, or strawberries, which, in a salty salad, do wonders.
If we want our salad to be as healthy as possible, we think of balancing the intake by keeping in mind the ideal plate made up of 1/3 vegetables and raw and cooked fruits, 1/3 protein (animal or vegetable) ), and 1/3 of carbohydrates (pasta and co). Also pay attention to the addition of cheese, croutons, and other cold meats (cuckoo the grilled bacon) which can quickly unbalance the whole and cause the caloric counter to go up, without even realizing it. But as always, the idea is not to demonize the ingredients qualified as “rich” but to realize that they are, so you can balance your meal by opting for a light dessert if you have consumed a rich dish and vice versa.
What exactly is an original salad?
The idea of adding flavor to your salad is not necessarily to choose an overpriced ingredient to impress our guests, but rather to rely on associations of changing tastes. Skate with raspberries, goat cheese with cherries, smoked eggplant with herbs, everything is possible. We can also bet on home made vegetable pickles to add tartness to our dish, cut our vegetables in tagliatelle to change the visual, or bet on a monochrome salad using foods around the same color (tomato, strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant). You can also upgrade simple ingredients: by adding chopped nuts around chicken balls, by roasting apricots or nectarines to give a new dimension to the fruits, or by using a seasoning that changes based on tahini for example. Easy ideas that will be ideal for preparing an ultra-original mixed salad, perfect for a cold meal, to complete a barbecue, or to take on a picnic.
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