3 crunchy salad recipes to help you lose weight

Salads are a great way to fill your stomach up with something healthy and very few calories. Here are some delish salad recipes you must try.

By: Upneet Pansare | | Updated: December 6, 2018 3:42 pm

Salads can be extremely delicious too! ©Shutterstock

Want to eat salad but think they are too boring? You must try these unique salad recipes by dietician Nishi Grover that are light, low-cal and on-so-yum!

Lime and mint salad
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Curd made with 1/2 litre skimmed milk
1 tsp lemongrass
1 tsp grated lemon grind
1 tbsp orange juice
A pinch of crushed black peper
Salt
1 tsp sugar-free aletrnative
A bunch of fresh corainder
A few mint leaves
Baked croutons

Method:
To make the croutons: Take a few slices of bread and cut them into small squares. Slatehr a bit of garlic paste and pepper on them. Bake it in the own for 15 to 20 minutes or till they are crisp.
Hang the curd in a thinmuslin cloth until it thickens.
Mis all the ingredients (except corainder and mint) together well and add to the curd.
Garnish with corainder, mint, baked croutons.
Serve chilled.

Pizza salad
Serves: 4
Ingredients
For the base:
2 tbsp oat bran flour
A pinch of jeera
A pinch of ajwain
1/2 tsp garlic paste
Salt

For the sauce:
100 gm tomato pulp
250 gm tomato puree (cooked)
A pinch of crushed black pepper
1 tsp garlic paste
Tabasco according to taste
A inch of sugar-free alternative
Chilli flakes according to taste
Pizza herbs such as rosemary, thyme, basil
Green chillies according to taste
Salt to taste

Method
Mix all the ingredinets for the base and make it into a pliable dough.
Roll out small thin rotis and bake them in the oven for 15 minutes or till done.
Then in a pan add the tomato pulp and puree and mix well.
Add all the other ingredients of the sauce (except Tobasco, corainder and pizza herbs) and cook for 2 mintes on low heat.
Add Tobasco and coriander.
Garnish with pizza herbs.
Serve hot.

Crunchy Thai salad
Serves: 4
Ingredients
250 gm tomato puree
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 inch Thai ginger
5-6 kafir leaves
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp Thai red curry paste
10-20 peanuts (roasted)
10-12 almonds
1/2 packet noodles
A pinch of crushed black pepper
1 tsp roasted white sesame seeds
Salt

Method
Puree the tomatoes and strain it to remove the skin and seeds. Ensure that it is of smooth consistency.
Add the soya sauce, Thai ginger, kafir leaves, vinegar, Thai red curry paste (after straining the oil out)
Add the peanuts, cushed black pepper, sesaem seeds and salt.
Cut the almonds into thin slivers and roast them along with the noodles. Bake them in the oven till brown.
Blend the peanuts and sesaem seeds. Add this to the salad.
Top the salad with nooodles and almond cruch and serve chilled.

With inputs from The Bridal Diet by Nishi Grover

Published : December 6, 2018 3:41 pm | Updated:December 6, 2018 3:42 pm

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