Vegetable salads are rich in nutrients, delicious and healthy to eat. It’s a good choice for a healthful diet as it contains a great amount of fibre and is naturally low in calories.
Salad is quick and easy to make and is known for its uniqueness which involves the use of different colourful veggie layers on a tray. Sometimes tossed in a creamy dressing product like salad cream or mayonnaise. Preparing vegetable salad can be exciting because you get to play with different colourful veggies chopped in different sizes. This mouth-watering meal could be served with Jollof/fried rice, grilled meats, moi-moi and sometimes, IÂ enjoy eating mine with bread.
When making your salad with cabbage, you can choose to blanch especially for people who don’t like the bitter taste of raw cabbage and also helps to get rid of worms or little bugs hidden in the leaves. Blanching is optional as most people prefer their cabbage crunchy. To make your salad expensive and more enticing, add canned vegetables like sweet corn, green peas, red kidney and many more.
Preparation method
The preparation method starts with washing, shredding and chopping of the vegetables to be used. Then you go ahead to dress the salad. At this stage, you can add other ingredients, like your boiled eggs, corn beef or even some green herbs.
Ingredients
- Carrots
- Cabbage
- Cucumber
- Lettuce
- Baked beans
- Greens peas
- Sweet corn
- Red kidney
- Fresh tomatoes
- Hard-boiled eggs(thinly sliced)
- Â Green pepper(bell pepper).
- Shredded chicken(optional)
Steps on how to prepare vegetable salad
Wash your vegetables
Shred carrots, Peel and slice cucumber, tomatoes, bell pepper, lettuce, and hard-boiled eggs into tiny bits and place in the different bowls.
Then open the canned ingredients and drain out the water.
Then lay the salad ingredients on a tray starting with the cabbage, then carrots, cucumber, bell pepper, green peas, red kidney, sweet corn, baked beans, lettuce, corn beef and thinly sliced eggs, tomatoes and shredded chicken(optional).
Picking up the habit of eating your meal with vegetable salad can be great for your health as it contains vitamins and minerals and also helps with digestion. This recipe is quick and easy to make and it could be made in 20minutes. Â Consume immediately or keep in the refrigerator not more than 3-5 days so as not to get soggy if kept for too long.
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