Salads

Keto Goat Cheese Salad with Caramelized Walnuts

August 16, 2020 By elviira 4 Comments

Salads make easy all-year-round lunches, but they are at their best during summertime. This flavorful, yet simple and easy-to-make salad tastes especially good when prepared from high-quality, fresh ingredients. The fewer ingredients you use, the better their quality should be!

In this 5-ingredient salad, sweet, caramelized walnuts make a heavenly, crunchy company to salty and soft goat cheese. If you are new to a keto diet, you might think that “keto” and “caramelized” would be mutually exclusive. However, you can easily make a very low-carb version of caramelized nuts that fit perfectly a keto diet — when you use a natural, carb-free sweetener, like in this recipe.

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Fantastic Feta Blueberry Salad

April 26, 2020 By elviira Leave a Comment

This 5-ingredient salad is ready in just a mere minute. Nutritious and satisfying, it contains everything you need for a full meal: a fabulous combination of sweet, tangy, and salty flavors as well as different textures — it’s justified to call it fantastic!

Mixed salad greens make a base for this flavorful salad. The juicy sweetness of blueberries balances out the sharpness and saltiness of the feta. Add walnuts for extra crunch and more nutrients — nuts also make the salad even more satisfying. Serve with your favorite salad dressing, or with good-quality extra-virgin olive oil, like in the recipe.
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Egg Salad with Avocado

April 12, 2020 By elviira 2 Comments

This easy, tasty, and beautifully colored egg salad will cheer you up at any time of a year, not only in springtime — even I have to admit the color is perfect for Easter and for spring. Read on to find out more about my experiments and how I chose the BEST seasoning to this recipe after tasting almost a dozen different spices and seasonings!
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4-Ingredient Keto Waldorf Salad

December 29, 2019 By elviira 4 Comments

With only 4 ingredients, you’ll get rich, creamy mouthfeel, delicate, fresh sweetness, and lots of crunch in this classic Waldorf Salad — made keto-friendly. It’s super-easy to prepare, too: just combine all ingredients in a bowl, mix, and that’s it! You can refrigerate the salad for a few hours for deeper flavors.

Serve this wonderful Waldorf Salad in your New Year’s celebrations, remember it in the summertime when grilling, or use it as filling in your keto sandwiches — or make it a full meal, see the tips at the end of the post.

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Caraway-Kissed Cauliflower Salad (Vegan)

May 19, 2019 By elviira Leave a Comment

Yes, this yummy salad features cauliflower, a keto staple, but it’s anything but boring. Caraway seed pairs surprisingly well with cauliflower, and there are plenty of other flavors and textures here, too: celery lends a mouth-watering crunch, and onion a gentle punch. And chopped fresh parsley provides a final, herby flourish. Serve with your favorite keto vinaigrette dressing!
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Green and Crunchy Shirataki Rice Salad

January 27, 2019 By elviira Leave a Comment

If you’re following a low-carb or keto diet, shirataki products are your best friends. Since they’re so low in calories and carbs, these wonder products are often used in main dishes that are served warm—as a replacement for traditional pasta, for example—as well as in warm side dishes. But shirataki products also suit cold salads perfectly, as you’ll see in this recipe for my Green and Crunchy Shirataki Rice Salad.

This recipe is also a very good example of how veggies can be extremely low in carbs. You can eat a lot of them, but you won’t consume a significant amount of calories or carbs in the process! Even better, green veggies are full of nutrients that do great things for your body and your mind.

Serve this crunchy, delicious salad as a side for chicken, meat or fish. And don’t forget to drizzle it with plenty of olive oil- and vinegar-based dressing, or healthy homemade mayo!

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Sweet and Tangy Turkey Leftover Salad

November 23, 2018 By elviira Leave a Comment

Need an easy way to use up your Thanksgiving turkey leftovers? This sweet and tangy salad is the ultimate solution! It’s a medley of delicious flavors, and it’s so simple to throw together that you’ll find yourself making it over and over again!
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Strawberry, Spinach and Avocado Salad (Vegan)

April 18, 2014 By elviira Leave a Comment

Sweeten your spring with this scrumptious salad which is bursting with brisk flavors and valuable nutrients. Green hues spotted with bright red strawberry feed your eyes while the sweet and tangy flavors wake up your taste buds and nourish your body.

Tips for variations and how to make this a full meal in the end of the post. Have a healthy springtime!
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Crunchy & Nutty Cauliflower Salad

April 8, 2014 By elviira 13 Comments

Crrrrrunch! If you love some texture and crunch in your salad, then this super crunchy salad is sure to please you and your palate.

This rich low-carb salad is a great alternative to potato salad. Leek gives piquant taste and fresh spring color. Nuts provide texture and crunch together with the main ingredient, raw cauliflower. Sour cream is a perfect sauce and it ties the tastes and textures beautifully together.

See “Tips for Variation” in the end of the post how to get even more spring and Easter colors to this salad!
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Strawberry Halloumi Salad

June 23, 2013 By elviira 6 Comments

Halloumi is Cypriot cheese with salty flavor and semi-hard texture. Because of its high melting point, it’s great for frying and grilling. In this salad flavorful halloumi is combined with sweet strawberries — these two counterpoints make a perfect combination. This mouth-watering combination gets a subtle kick from freshly ground black pepper. Good-quality extra virgin olive oil gives the final touch with its richness and healthful fats.

In case you cannot get halloumi or other cheese suitable for grilling, I’ll give some ideas how to replace it in this salad. I’ll also give vegan and dairy-free alternatives in the end of the post.

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