Greek Salad

Greek salad consist of chopped tomato, cucumber, onion, feta cheese, green pepper, and olives seasoned with oregano, salt and pepper, topped with olive oil and white wine vinegar.

Ingredients:
2 Tomatoes cut into small cubes
1 Onion, thinly sliced
½ Cucumber, cut into small pieces
1 green pepper (capsicum), cut into small pieces
120g Feta cheese (Sheep Cheese), cut into small cubes
16 olives

For the Dressing:
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
1 teaspoon Dried Oregano
1 tsp Lemon Juice
4 tsp white Wine Vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:
1. Add chopped cucumber, chopped tomato, olives, feta cheese, sliced onion, and capsicum to the large bowl.
2. In a small bowl, whisk olive oil, dried oregano, lemon juice, salt and wine vinegar.
3. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss gently to combine just before the serving.
4. Garnish the Greek salad with freshly ground pepper.

Sprouted Green Gram With Tomato Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup Sprouted Green Gram

1 Onion, finely chopped

1 Tomato, finely chopped

1-2 tsp Chilly powder

Salt and lemon juice according to taste

Preparation:

1. Blanch sprouted green gram for 2 minutes.

2. Drain the water and keep it aside.

3. Mix blanched green gram, onion, tomato in a bowl.

4. Add lemon juice, salt, chilly powder and mix well.

Note:

Blanching:

Blanching also called par-boiling, is cooking raw vegetables for varying amounts of time in boiling water.

Iceberg lettuce Salad

Iceberg lettuce is amazingly juicy and crispy and it can be stored for a long time. Iceberg lettuce salad is easy to make and tastes yummy .I usually hate salads. One day I went to my Austrian’s friend home for lunch .she served lasagne and iceberg salad. I loved so much and I learnt this recipe from her and posting it for u….

Ingredients:
1 head of iceberg lettuce
4tsp Balsamic Vinegar
2tsp Olive oil
2tsp mustard sauce
5 tsp sprouted green gram
Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:
1. Wash lettuce, remove leaves.
2. Do not cut with knife; use your hands to tear leaves into medium pieces.
3. For the dressing: In a small bowl mix olive oil, balsamic vinegar, mustard sauce, salt, pepper and mix well.
4. In the salad bowl, add lettuce and pour the dressing over it and mix well.
5. Garnish with sprouted green gram dal.

Tomato and Cottage Cheese Salad (Tomato and Paneer Salad)

Ingredients:
4 Medium size firm Tomatoes
125g cottage cheese (paneer) cut it into small cubes
1 tap Olive oil
2 tsp Balsamic Vinegar
¼ tsp Mustard powder
¼ tsp Mint Powder
¼ tsp pepper, finely ground
Salt

Preparation:
1. Wash tomatoes, cut it into 4 pieces (quartered) and remove the pulp.
2. For the seasoning: Mix olive oil, balsamic vinegar, mint powder, mustard powder, pepper, salt and keep it aside.
3. Apply ¾ of the seasoning on the tomato skins.
4. Mix the remaining seasoning with the paneer.
5. Arrange the seasoned tomato skins on a serving plate. Put 1 tsp cottage cheese mixture on each tomato skin.
6. Serve chilled.

Beetroot salad

Beetroot salad is easy to make and tastes good. Just boil and slice the beetroot and arrange them on the serving plates and pour the dressing over the salad.

Ingredients:
1 Beet root
2 tsp White wine vinegar
1 tsp Caraway seed
Salt and Pepper to taste

Preparation:
1. Pressure cook beetroot, remove the skin, cut into halves and slice thinly.
2. For the dressing: Mix white wine vinegar caraway seed, salt and pepper.
3. Arrange beetroot on the serving plates and pour the dressing over it.
4. Serve chilled.

Tomato Mozzarella Salad (Insalata Caprese)

This is so easy to make and delicious. It's tasty and extremely popular, especially as a starter before a main course or as a simple appetizer. Just slice the tomatoes and layer them with fresh mozzarella and pour the dressing over the salad.

Ingredients:
2 large tomatoes

50g Mozzarella cheese

2 tsp fresh/ dry basil
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
Salt and Pepper to taste

Preparation:
1. Slice tomato and mozzarella thinly.
2. For dressing, combine vinegar, olive oil and whisk until oil is thoroughly blended.
3. Arrange tomato and cheese slices, alternately on serving plate or individual salad plates.
4. Pour the dressing over the slices.
5. Sprinkle basil, pepper and salt over the salad.

Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup Pasta
2 tsp Egg less Mayonnaise
2 tsp Vinegar
½ cup peas, cooked
1 Carrot, finely chopped
½ cup Cauliflower, chopped (optional)
1 Onion, finely chopped
1 Tomato, finely chopped
2 tsp finely chopped fresh parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
Water

Preparation:
1. Boil enough water with little salt in a vessel.
2. Add pasta into the boiling water and cook till it is tender.
3. Drain the water and keep it aside.
4. Cook the chopped vegetables separately and keep it aside (don’t overcook it).
5. In a bowl mix cooked vegetables, paste, onion, tomato and mix well.
6. Add vinegar, salt, pepper, parsley and egg less mayonnaise to the vegetable pasta mixture and mix well.
7. Salad is ready to serve.

Note:
1. While cooking pasta you can add a tsp of oil that helps to avoid pasta sticking together.
2. Instead of cooking the vegetables you can also use them as raw.

Pepper Broccoli Salad

Ingredients:
1 cup bell peppers (green, red and yellow peppers), cut it into small pieces
Small broccoli florets, cut it into small florets
2 Garlic cloves, crushed
2 tsp vinegar
1 tsp Lemon juice
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp Pepper, crushed
Salt

Preparation:
1. Boil water in a vessel add broccoli florets and cook for 2-3 minutes.
2. Drain the water and keep it aside.
3. Mix olive oil, crushed garlic, vinegar, lemon juice in a bowl.
4. In a vessel add broccoli, bell peppers and the above mixture and mix well.
5. Finally add salt, pepper and mix well.

Sweet Corn Peas Salad

Ingredients:
1 cup Sweet Corn niblets
1 cup peas
1 Capsicum, finely chopped
3 tsp finely chopped mint leaves (optional)
2-3 tsp Fresh cream
1 tsp Pepper
Salt

Preparation:
1. Cook peas and sweet corn separately and keep it aside.
2. In a bowl mix peas, sweet corn, capsicum, salt and pepper.
3. Before serving add fresh cream and mix well.

Sprouted Green Gram Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup sprouted green gram
1 Onion finely chopped
1 Tomato, finely chopped
1/2 cucumber, finely chopped
1 tsp Lemon Juice
1 tsp pepper
Salt

Preparation:
1. Gently mix sprouted green gram, onion, tomato, cucumber in a bowl.
2. Before serving add lemon juice salt, pepper and mix well.

Cucumber salad

Ingredients:
1 cucumber
1/2 lemon
Freshly ground black pepper
Salt

Preparation:
1. Peel and slice cucumber into round slices.
2. Arrange on a plate in circles.
3. Sprinkle a little salt, fresh ground black pepper and squeeze fresh lemon juice just before serving.

chickpea Salad

Ingredients:
1 cup chickpea (chana), boiled
1 small Tomato, finely chopped
1 tsp coriander leaves (chopped)
2 tsp lime juice
1/4 tsp black salt
1 tsp chat masala
1 tsp Chilly Powder
Salt

Preparation:
1. Mix chana, tomato, onion in a bowl.
2. Add salt, black salt, chat masala, chilly powder to the above mixture and mix well.
3. Before serving add lemon juice and mix well.
4. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.