Lettuce Olive Salad

Our Breakfast would be mostly Dosa, Upma, Bread Toast, Noodles or something simple and easy. Even if I make Dosa, the side dish would be just a chutney without vegetables. So I make it a point to include salads during breakfast. Also, it is impossible for me to include more veggies in a salad, so I make it two or three. 

This salad is very easy to prepare and it is so crunchy that it gets over very soon. The addition of olives makes it much more tasty and healthy.. Somehow, I am very much content with this salad and I've not tried any other new salad since few weeks.

Ingredients:

Iceberg Lettuce 1

Olives Few

Juice from half Lemon

Olive Oil 1/2 tsp (or as needed)

Pepper Powder 1/8 tsp (or as needed)

Salt

Method:

In a bowl, combine chopped lettuce and other ingredients.. Mix well and serve.

Notes:

You can also add Red Kidney Beans, Carrot and Cucumber.

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Cucumber - Raw Mango Salad for Vegan Thursday

Salads have become a daily routine here. I am happy that I've lost few kilos, so do my hus. !!!  But it is quite difficult to include more vegetables during my busy preparations for breakfast. So I restrict myself with 2-3 veggies in daily salad. Today, I am going to share with you all a very tempting salad. I prepare this quite often and whenever I prepare, I always feel that why have I not prepared more. 

 
 

Ingredients:

Cucumbers - long -2
Raw Mango (green) - 1
Finely chopped Coriander leaves
Grated Carrot 2-3 tbsp
Salt and Pepper powder
Juice from a half lemon

Method:

Cut cucumber into small cubes. Remove the skin of green mango and cut into small cubes. Chop coriander leaves. Grate carrot.

Combine chopped cucumber, green mango, carrot and coriander leaves in a big bowl. Add salt, pepper powder and lemon juice. Mix well and serve.

Serves: 1-2

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Cucumber Olive Salad

I munch on cucumber or make raita. I've never made salad with cucumber. I thought why not prepare it.Here is the recipe. It came out so well and I love it.

Ingredients:

2 medium sized cucumbers
1 small non juicy Tomato
3 tsp sliced olives
1 tsp white vinegar
2 pinch of pepper powder
Salt

Preparation:

Slice cucumber as thin as possible. Cut tomatoes into small pieces.

Method:

In a large bowl, combine sliced cucumbers, chopped tomatoes, vinegar,olives, pepper powder and salt. 
Give it a toss. 
Keep it for half an hour and then serve.

Serves: 1

Notes:

You can add chopped coriander leaves. I just wanted to serve it plain.
You can also add black olives to give a nice color and taste to the salad.
Since this is a cucumber salad, I have included it more and added other ingredients in lesser proportions. 


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Simple Carrot Salad

Vegetable Salad is something my Hus asks me to prepare often. I give him excuses; this or that so as to avoid preparing as I've my own reason that Vegetable Salad is not as appetizing as Fruit Salad. But I am proved wrong. I made this carrot salad today. As soon as I made, it vanished soon..

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Ok.. now to the recipe:

You need:

4 Medium sized Carrots
Few Coriander Leaves
1 tsp Lemon Juice
A small piece of Ginger
Salt to taste

Preparation:

Grate Carrots and Ginger. Squeeze lemon. Chop Coriander Leaves

Method:

Combine grated Ginger, Carrots and chopped Coriander Leaves. 
Sprinkle Salt and add lemon Juice. 
Mix well and serve.

Serves: 1-2

Notes:

You can also mince ginger in a hand mortar and pestle. Use fresh ginger. Ginger and Lemon gives nice aroma and flavor to the salad and makes it more appetizing.

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