Recipe: Quick Healthy Salad

Summary: Salad with a lemon / oil base

Ingredients

  • 1 head of lettuce – broken into bite sized pieces
  • 1 tomato – chopped
  • 1 avocado – chopped
  • protein (optional) – chicken, pork, steak – cubed
  • 5-6 tbs. flax oil (or olive oil)
  • Juice of 1 lemon 5-6 tbs.
  • ponzu sauce pepper – to taste garlic
  • red chili sauce – to taste – i put in1 tsp., and i like spicy.

Instructions

  1. Mix the oil, lemon, ponzu, pepper and garlic red chili sauce in a bowl or jar. Mix well.
  2. Place lettuce, tomato, avocado and protein (if used) into a large tupperware or ziplock bag. Shake up the salad vigorously.
  3. Add dressing (use you’re own discretion on how much of the dressing to use) and shake vigorously.

Quick Notes

I make this at lunch frequently and skip mixing the dressing up separately. I just throw all of the vegetables, and dressing items into a tupperware or ziplock bag and shake it all up together vigorously.

I also usually use a leftover meat from the previous day and chop it up cold and add to the salad – if i do add a meat.

I use flax oil because it is extremely good for you and you cannot taste it in this dressing.  So you get the benefit of flax oil without the taste.

Variations

Add zucchini, cucumber, red onion (if you like the onion bite), crumbly blue cheese, chopped cilantro or chopped basil

Cooking time (duration): 15

Diet type: Vegetarian

Number of servings (yield): 2

Meal type: lunch

My rating: 5 stars: ★★★★★

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