First of all, as a "cold meal", the freshness of ingredients is the basis of salad. Salad is absolutely unpalatable without fresh ingredients! So basically, the attitude and standard can be seen by tasting the vegetables in the salads of many shops outside.
(Image from Pinterest, invasion)
Generally speaking, salad is to find a green leafy vegetable as the base, then choose some vegetables you like, add protein-rich ingredients (mainly tofu, cheese and meat), and then add some snacks and sauces according to your personal preference.
But personally, I still think the core of salad is free collocation. These contents in the above formula are not necessary, but one thing can't be ignored, that is sauce!
Yes, the soul of salad is sauce! ! !
The following sauces are my favorites, and I will share them with you, because I think sauces are really important!
Avocado salad dressing (my favorite, avocado tastes invincible, okay? ! With lemon juice and citrus fragrance, it is a great sauce. Most importantly, it may be one of the few healthy sauces without sin. Treasure it! )
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons lemon juice; 2 garlic cloves; 3/4 teaspoon of crude salt; 1 tomato; Half an onion; Half a handful of coriander leaves; Five avocados
Steps: Chop all the vegetables that can be chopped, dig out avocado meat and put it in a bowl, pour lemon juice and mash it with a fork. Add what you just chopped, add salt and mix well ~
PS: This sauce is delicious with cornflakes! ! ! From then on, I fell in love with cornflakes on the next level ~
(Why is this picture so ghostly ~)
② Walnut and garlic basil sauce (well, the picture is really a bit ... and evil cheese is added, but basil and garlic are really delicious! But relatively speaking, this sauce is not so evil.
Ingredients: 3 cups of basil; Parmesan cheese crumbs 1/3 cups; Walnut 1 and 1/2 cups; 4 cloves of garlic; Olive oil 1 cup
Steps: Stir basil, walnuts, cheese and garlic with a cooking machine, slowly add olive oil while stirring, and stir until the ingredients are sauce-like. You can also add some salt and black pepper to taste. It's done.
(3) Black garlic vinegar sauce (the dark thing in the picture below, which I usually use to make potato salad. Very textured sauce. Although it is called vinegar sauce, the texture is still relatively strong, and it is absolutely perfect to bake with potatoes ~)
Material: 4 cloves of black garlic; Salt 1/4 tbsp; 4 tablespoons oil; Rice vinegar 1 tablespoon; Appropriate amount of black pepper
Step: Mix black garlic, salt and 1 tbsp oil, mash it into paste, then add rice vinegar, black pepper and the rest oil, and stir well. It's done.
(4) Vinegar juice (wild vinegar juice, which is very common and proved to be really delicious)
Ingredients: olive oil 1/4 cups; 2 tablespoons rice vinegar; Jiang Mo is suitable; Low sodium soy sauce 1 tablespoon; 2 teaspoons of lime juice; Appropriate amount of minced garlic
Preparation method of vinegar juice: mix that above raw materials, and stir with an egg beater until emulsified. Basically, it is just a sauce that needs to be prepared!
⑤ Another kind of spicy vinegar juice (with novel taste, especially suitable for vegetables).
Steps: Italian balsamic vinegar? (1/4 cup), yellow mustard (1 and 1/2 teaspoons), 2 cloves of garlic, and appropriate amount of red pepper powder, while adding olive oil (2 tablespoons) and stirring.
Let's talk about sauce first. In fact, the sauce is very flexible and can be adjusted according to personal taste. The raw materials are the same. If you are interested, you can try it yourself, well, above.
Then I want to talk about what I think can make salad full and delicious. In fact, salad is to add things you like together. For example, I don't like raw leaves, so I never add them ~
① Roasted vegetables
It's really true, the food is super delicious! Whether it is pumpkin, potato, sweet potato, carrot, especially this kind of thick vegetable, the skin is crisp after baking, and the inside is soft and glutinous, which is super delicious! ! ! Then I'll tell you a big trick, focus on it! ! !
Add coconut! Son! Oil!
It's no use talking too much. You won't know my excitement about Amway until you try ~
Put some pictures.
Sauce potatoes salad with black garlic vinegar (baked potato with black garlic vinegar sauce, super delicious, doesn't it look attractive? ! )
Roasted pumpkin with pine cones and pomegranate wheat rice salad (all supermarkets in the city sell roasted pumpkin, but they can't get it every time, so it's delicious ~)
Autumn bacon salad (with pumpkin added, the color matching is also great! )
② Sweet corn
It's also a vegetable, but I have to take it out because it's so delicious! ! ! Every time I go out to eat salad, the store will only decorate it with a little sweet corn. My heart is broken! So when you make your own salad, you usually put too much sweet corn in it.
Sweet corn radish salad (the ingredients are not rich, but I am very satisfied with sweet corn! )
③ Fruit
No fruit will die, Star Man! I believe everyone loves fruit, but I want to go to Amway again here.
That's fruit with honey and mint! ! Yes, whether this fruit is out of season or not, it will be sweet but not greasy, with honey and mint. Cheating is simply!