How to Elevate Your Boring Salad

The new year, there’s an expectation that you’re going to switch your lifestyle over to be more healthy. You might choose to go running, and you might choose to do some yoga, or you might just choose to change your diet. If being healthy is your resolution this year, then you might need to dive back into salads again. The problem is that even salad lovers can become bored over time with their usual green medley. You just hear salad and all you can think of is piles of lettuce and tomatoes. And you’re not a rabbit, so why would you want to enjoy that? Here’s the thing though. Salad doesn’t have to be boring.

 

 There are some fantastic, tastebud-tantalising tuna salad recipe options out there that can change what a salad means to you. There are chicken salad options that are paired with things that you may not even imagine chicken could be paired with. You can have a hot bacon dressing salad or a crumbed blue cheese topping. Side salads can fill the gaps of a meal, or you can feast on a chef salad as a total dining experience. If you’re starting to feel a little jaded with salads, it might be time to try something new. So let’s take a look at how you can enhance your salads so that the taste is completely elevated.

  1. Do better with your greens. Do you really have to rely on just iceberg lettuce? Absolutely not. When it comes to your salad, you don’t have to just rely on one type of leafy green. You can add romaine lettuce or spinach or leeks or dill or escarole. You can try celery leaves. You could try parsley. There are so many different types of greenery that you can incorporate into a salad that you can change the taste of the salad in an instant. If one or two of the flavors don’t quite go, that’s fine, you can always just try again next time.
  2. Experiment. The one amazing thing about salads is that the whole point of the word is that it’s a mix up of everything together. Radishes and carrots, celery and onions, mushrooms, kidney beans, peas, beet slices, eggplant, turnip. We could go on and on. You can use traditional veggies in ways that are very much untraditional, as you can cook carrots instead of eating them raw, or you can add peas shoots instead of just green peas. You can even add chunks of baked sweet potato instead of a traditional potato salad. It all changes the taste.
  3. Make it sizzle. Most salads with meat either have tuna, salmon, bacon bits or ham. What about some fresh beef? What about fresh beef that’s been flavoured with BBQ dressing? What about sausage pieces on small skewers that have peppers and onions roasted either side? You can add any of these things to a salad, because the whole point is that you’re adding things that you enjoy the taste of.
  4. Make it sweet. If you really want to elevate the taste of your boring salad, then make it fruity. Tossing in a cup of cubed or deseeded watermelon, some fresh cantaloupe or honeydew or even berries can make a big difference to the flavor. 
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