Food hacks that will make you eat more salad
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- 05 May 2023
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Salads are great appetizers and gut health boosters but that is usually not enough to include them in meals. Discover seven ideas to increase your daily salad intake.
There's something about the salads you eat at a restaurant that makes them so much better. Maybe it's the chef's recipe, or maybe the fact that they come at a higher cost makes you appreciate them more.
The fact is they taste better than the ones made at home.
So, how can you have delicious salads in the convenience of your home?
Firstly, you have to know that you deserve to eat great salads. Although you might be eating them for your health, it is not a sentence to eat tasteless colourful things.
You can order them at a slightly higher price from the restaurant. Or you can follow these tips to make your own salads enjoyable, improve your kitchen skills and save some money.
Buy in-season fruits and vegetables
Part of improving your salad experience is to eat various recipes otherwise your palette may grow tired of the monotony. It also means buying fresh produce from what is available at a particular time. Sticking to one salad means you either eat frozen fruits or vegetables which have less flavour or you get poor quality produce.
Use fresh soft herbs for garnish
Soft-leaf herbs have a great flavour that some vegetables lack. Herbs like mint, cilantro, basil, chives, garlic chives, oregano, and thyme can make any salad fancier 10 times over.
Massage your leaf cabbage
Throwing your veggies and fruits together is not going to work for your taste buds when it comes to veggies like kale or leaf cabbage. Mixing fruit and veggies does not guarantee that the flavours will soak and come in union for a holy treat. You have to massage the stubborn ones.
Before mixing the ingredients, add vinegar or squeeze a lemon and a bit of salt to the kale and start massaging them between your hands until the leaves start to look wilted. Read More…
