I don’t know about you, but I can get stuck in a salad rut! The normal lettuce, tomato, cucumber thing or my old favourites. Boring!
I have been on the hunt for some super-healthy but also super-yummy salad recipes now that the weather is far too hot to cook. This is what I have discovered.
Moorish Crunch Salad from Jamie Oliver
300 g carrots, peeled and cut into matchstick-sized batons
150 g radishes
2 crunchy apples
1 small handful raisins/sultanas
1 handful fresh Italian parsley
1 handful fresh mint, roughly chopped
4 T red wine vinegar
8 T olive oil
1 T tahini
2 T sesame seeds, toasted in the oven for about three minutes
Finely slice radishes. Quarter and core the apples and slice finely. Add all these to a bowl with the rest of the ingredients, except for the sesame seeds. Toss together, and season to taste. Serve with sesame seeds sprinkled on top and eat straight away before the salad loses its crunch.
*NOTE: Jamie Oliver’s website was upgraded and this recipe no longer linked, so I found it elsewhere and posted it. 🙂
Crunchy Asian Cabbage Salad from Alexx Stuart – Real Food and Low Tox Living
Watermelon and Avocado Salad with Fetta from Top of the Apple
Vietnamese Rice Salad from Mamacino
Chakra Fruit Salad with Enlightened Tahini Sauce from My New Roots.
Roast Avocado and Couscous Salad from Stone Soup
Do you have a super salad recipe? Please share or link us up with your favourite one!
These look delicious!
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I know! I have no clue how people hate veges – they are amazing!
Oh Sonia – You read my mind! We have been having salads the past three nights and looking to continue for weeks. I need to add to my repertoire, so this blog came at the perfect time.
I too am in a salad rut and have been thinking of alternatives. So very timely blog. Great!
oooh I must be psychic girls!! 🙂
Hi, feel free to share these salads – the quinoa one is fantastic. Sorry, couldn’t work out how to put scanned recipe on blog. Thanks for the ideas!
can you email it to me? naturalnewagemum@yahoo.com.au – would love to have a look 🙂
My new favourite salad is the Warm Chicken and Blue Cheese Salad from Meat on the Menu. Heaven! if you’re a blue cheese lover.
yum ! I don’t have that book but hear lots of good things about it 🙂
Thanks so muck for this post, I love salads and these alternatives might just get the kids on board too as they are not into lettuce at all!
Something a bit different, aren’t they? Thanks for stopping by Raquel! 🙂
I meant to write thanks so much! sorry!
Thermomix beetroot salad! Also roast pumpkin with hazelnuts. Spinach, rocket, mint & peas. Helenic Republiques Cypriot grain salad. I can email you some recipes 🙂
I lerve the thermy beetroot salad. Have never tried roast pumpkin with hazels though – sounds good. I would love the grain salad recipe if you wouldn’t mind emailing Jane. Thank you. 🙂
I love carrot, beetroot and cheese salad. Just grate everything and mix! Could also make it more healthy by leaving out the cheese. Still tastes great and it’s something different =)
Oh that’s a good idea… I often do a grated mix of carrot and cheese for the kids sandwiches, but the beetroot would be good too – thanks for sharing Sarah 🙂
I make a variation of the carrot and beetroot one. The night before soak some sultanas in lemon juice then when serving mix in with the grated beetroot, put in a bowl and place the grated carrot as a ring around the top – just for looks as it gets mixed as you serve.
fabulous tip Bronwyn!
Mum has been saying Jessica don’t forget that your making salads for Xmas, I was stuck and getting ready to hunt for some new salads recipes and then this popped up <3 Yep your spot on with timing for us all, now that summer is here 🙂
I hope they will be impressed with what you make! Let me know how it goes! Would love piccies on my Facebook wall ! 🙂
Love all of these! Thanks Sonia xxx
thanks for letting me share your amazing rice salad recipe 🙂
These look yummo thank you. I can’t open the Moorish Jamie Oliver Recipe for some reason??
will double check the link 🙂
It looks like they are upgrading the website – it’s a different layout to last time I went – I will redo it when it becomes available 🙂
recipe is posted on this post 🙂
Oh my sisiter just said to me to make a NICE salad for xmas and then I see this your fantastic think these will be a winner let me know if you have any more!
I am sure these will qualify 🙂
Yum all these look great! I make a delicious salad with roast pumpkin, baby spinach leaves, feta and pine nuts! One of my favourites!
yum – that’s one of my faves too – great flavour combo
Love the watermelon and avo idea – my little toddler loves both those things so I could make a salad for her with these and see if she eats the things around it! Worth a try! 🙂
yeah, good bit of vege smuggling! 🙂
I have been getting back in to salads too! Can’t wait to try some of these…thanks for including me xxx
It’s a pleasure. Your rice salad is such a hit around here and it’s great for the lunchbox!