Salad Recipes

A Complete Meal or Side Dish

Salad recipes on the menu is a step to healthier eating.
Low in calories, low in fat and bursting with vital nutrients.
The yellow or dark green vegetables are packed with a major punch of Vitamin A and E.
Combine fruit with vegetables in your salad; full of Vitamin C.

Use your imagination and creativity; the sky is the limit. Break the rules:
Like only having sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving or cranberries for Christmas
Serve as a complete meal instead of just a side dish.
Thanks to modern transportation and storage, grocery shelves are an array of vegetables and fruits.
So go ahead: toss grilled chicken fruits, nuts and all your favorite greens and enjoy a different salad every day.
Enjoy your veggies in the recipes listed here.

Broccoli Salad

• 5 cups broccoli
• ¼ cup red onion, finely sliced
• ½ cup raisins
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• ½ cup yogourt
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 3 tbsp vinegar
• ½ cup bacon bits
• 1 cup sunflower seeds

Caesar Dressed Salad

• 1 large head romaine lettuce (or romaine hearts, cut or torn in bite-size pieces)
• 5 bacon sliced cooked crisp and crumbled
• 3 tbsp. (45 ml) chopped green onion
• 3 tbsp. (45 ml)grated Parmesan cheese
• ½ cup (125 ml) (or more) croutons
• ¼ teaspoon (2 ml) pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon (1 ml)dried whole oregano
• 2/3 cup (127 ml) creamy Caesar salad dressing
• 2 medium tomatoes, cut into 6 wedges each
• Combine first 7 ingredients in large bowl.
  Add dressing shortly before serving. Toss.
  Set tomato wedges on top.

About Cooking

Authentic Caesar Salad

• 2 cups (500 ml) ¼ inch (6 ml) bread cubes (see below)
• 1/3 Cup (76 ml) crisp bacon bits
• ½ Cup (125 ml) olive oil
• 1 finely chopped clove of garlic (or ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) garlic salt)
• 5 Cups (1¼ liters) torn Romaine or Bibb lettuce (fairly well packed)
• 1 egg, soft-cooked in shell 1 minute
• 1 teaspoon (5 ml) Worcestershire or HP Sauce
• ¼ cup (60 ml) lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) salt
• 1/8 teaspoon (1 ml) pepper
• ¼ Cup (60 ml) grated Parmesan cheese
• ¼ Cup (60 ml) crumbled blue cheese (optional)
• 6 anchovy fillets, cut up (optional)
  
• Toast bread cubes in oven at 200º F./93º C. until dried out but not brown.
• Fry about 3 slices side bacon until just crisp. Chop and drain on paper towel
• Add garlic to oil and pour half of it over the dry bread cubes. Wash and dry greens, tear into bits and put in large salad bowl.
• Mix together 1-minute egg, shelled, Worcestershire or HP Sauce, lemon juice, salt, pepper and remaining half of oil-garlic mixture.
• Just before mealtime, sprinkle Parmesan over greens and toss all together and serve.

Here are some other Salad Recipe