Salad Recipes (Most Popular)
This is a great pot luck dish! It bursts with flavor. This is a great recipe for left over Pork Roast. Feel free to substitute chicken or turkey. Pork roasts are more flavorful though.
They sell corn by the half-dozen, so we always have some left over. I decided to make a salad using corn from last night and some black beans for protein and fiber.
Somewhat adapted from the salad dressing at Chipotle, however less fat, sugar & salt.
Lite Asian Salad Dressing with minimal oil and no sugar
You can change up the nuts and fruits/veggies in this. Cashews are good, as are pomegranate seeds and cubes of roasted winter squash.
This is my basic template for grain salad. You can use any oil (I usually use my best olive oil). You can use any acid (lemon juice, lime juice, any kind of vinegar). Mix and match! I often add other chopped veggies to it, as well, but for sure I always include tomatoes and either onions or scallions.
This is a low-fat, tabouli-inspired version of my standard grain salad.
This recipe gets better after it's been in your fridge for a day. Once you give this Vegan Ranch a try, you will not go back to the heavy, fatty stuff one buys on the grocery store shelves.
cut tortillas into smaller pieces and fry quickly in olive oil, drain on paper towel