I love to exercise and are in general very focused on living a healthy lifestyle. On this page you can find my favorite salad recipes, which are all tested and guaranteed delicious. If you are looking for some great inspiration for some new salad recipes you are landed on the right page. Continue browsing and maybe you can find you new favorite salad.
If you have read some of the other recipes on our blog, you would know that we normally try to avoid carbs from white bread, pasta, potatoes etc. and replace it with salads. This salad with red cabbage, oranges and pomegranate is another salad that we like to make. The salad is perfect as a side dish for most meat and it has a wonderful taste. [Read more...]
This cabbage, carrot and apple salad is one of my favorite all-year-around salads. [Read more...]
This recipe for Mango Lime Avocado Kidney Beans Salad is one of my most favorite salads. There are many reasons why I like this salad so much: First of all it is wonderful to look at and therefore it is a great side dish to have on your dinner table, especially when you are having guests over. Perfect to be served with potatoes and meat, which will give a colorful face-lift to a sometime colorless dish. It just has a beautiful and professional look. Secondly, it is very tasteful. This salad contains several wonderful ingredients, which all are fresh and perfect together. All ingredients are easy prepared and can be found in most grocery stores and supermarkets. Third, because of the kidney beans, this salad is packed with great proteins which will give a nice filling sensation and give your body good energy to work with. [Read more...]
This recipe for Danish Cold Potato Salad, or Kold Kartoffelsalat as we called it in Denmark, is a great summer side dish and is a most-have for a traditional Nordic barbecue party. Cold Potato Salad is a fantastic side dish for most types of meat especially sausages and pork made on a grill. It is very easy to prepare and it has a great and fresh taste which is perfect for a hot summer day. For me, this dish has some great memories attached to it. I always remember it from my childhood and that we almost always had it as a side dish in the summer time. I did grow up in a family where almost all dinners, during the summer period, were prepared on a grill in the garden - so of course we did eat a lot of Danish Cold Potato Salad. [Read more...]
I have said many times, here on my blog, that I love delicious and at the same time very easy-to-cook food. I have a busy job and several spare time activities, so I am always on the lookout for some healthy, fast and delicious food.
Of course, regular fast-food like pizza, fries, take-away burgers and so on is not an option for me. I absolutely living by the rule that about 95% of my food should be of a good and healthy quality. This recipe I have here on this page is one of my favorite dinner side dishes. This Black Bean Avocado Lime Salad is fantastic easy to prepare and it is packed with great vitamins and other good nutrition like the protein from the beans and the healthy oil in the Avocado. [Read more...]
This time I would like to share a super simple, but at the same time, very delicious recipe for a watermelon salad with crisp pumpkin seeds and feta cheese.
I typically make and serve this watermelon salad when I am having a barbecue party - I think it is because it is a very summer-like salad and therefore is perfect for an outdoor barbecue. However, of course it is a great salad all year round and it goes perfect with most meat. [Read more...]
This time I would like to show you how you can make a super simple and very tasteful tomato salsa. For this tomato salsa you would only need a few main ingredients which is; tomatoes (of course), fresh red chili, red onion, olive oil and cloves of garlic. These few ingredients can be turned into a delicious salsa which can be used as a side dish for a ton of different other dishes or as a topping for burgers, tacos, pizza and so on. [Read more...]
This recipe for a red cabbage salad topped with slices of oranges and apples is one of my favorite salads during the fall. During the fall and winter months, I can buy fresh red cabbage for almost nothing in Denmark. The climate in Denmark is perfect for red cabbage production, which is way it is such a popular and very cheap vegetable in Denmark. I am sure this applies to many other countries around the world. Especially, most European countries and the northern states in the US. [Read more...]
Today, I would like to share a great recipe for creamy curry pasta salad. I typically make this curry pasta salad in the summertime, where I use it as a side dish when I am having a barbecue party. Of course, this curry pasta can be served together with other food which has not been prepared on a grill - I it is just that this pasta salad is perfect together with most meat, sausages, vegetables and similar. It is my experience that most people find this pasta salad very delicious - it is always the first side dish to run empty or maybe it is just me making to small servings. [Read more...]
It is actually really easy to make some homemade bread croutons which are great as a crisp element in a nice salad or a soup. In this recipe you only need 4-5 different ingredients; some bread, olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper. Instead of using fresh bread you can with advantage use some stale bread which has become hard and boring. We normally use dark bread with some nuts, this gives an extra delicious taste to the croutons.
Homemade croutons really give a salad an extra delicious touch. In this recipe we used thyme. However, you can try using different types of spices. You can also try using different types of bread like normal white bread or some darker with whole grains.
Normally a dinner at our place consist of some kind of meat and a salad on the side. In general we try to cut down on food with high content of carbs like potatoes, white rice and pasta and replace it with delicious salads. This time we have made a simple salad with fresh and grilled nectarines. The nectarines are rinsed, cut in halves and then grilled for about 10 minutes - this makes them nice and soft. This salad is a real summer salad and perfect for a barbecue party, however, it can be eaten [Read more...]
In Denmark it's kind of a tradition, or at least pretty normal, to serve boiled potatoes as a side dish when you serve meat for dinner. In general we Danes eat a lot of potatoes and especially the white and boiled ones. Potatoes are relatively cheap, filling and they do contain some good nutritions, however they do also contain many carbs. We do not consider ourselves any kind of health fanatics but we do try to cut away most of the less good food, with many carbs and fat, and replace it with protein and salads. [Read more...]
We love taking a popular and delicious dish like a pulled pork burger with coleslaw and change it a bit into something that is still super delicious. This way we have two variations of a great dish which gives us the opportunity to change between them. This coleslaw with red cabbage and apples is a nice a delicious alternative to the original coleslaw. We have served it many times as topping for pulled pork burgers and it's super good! When we are having pulled pork burgers we always make our own homemade burger buns according this recipe. They are just super delicious especially compared to the ones you can buy at the grocery store. We have also used this red cabbage coleslaw many times as a side dish for pork and beef meat. [Read more...]
A normal Danish dinner typically consist of some kind of meat, mostly pork or beef, some potatoes, pasta or rice and maybe some bread. We will not consider ourselves super healthy people however, we do try to work out on a regular basis and combined with good food we believe that we are doing alright. With regards to our eating habits we try to avoid most of all the white and carbs-packed stuff like white bread, potatoes, pasta and rice, and then replace it with food that are rich in protein and full of good nutrients. A typical dinner for us is some kind of fried or grilled meat served together with a delicious salad. And when we are talking about salads it is almost never just a simple lettuce/tomato/cucumber-salad.
We always try to experiments with all kinds of salads with different vegetables, fruits and nuts like strawberries, watermelon, avocado and pumpkin seeds just to name a few. [Read more...]
This is a simple but effective guide how to clean and cut iceberg lettuce very easy. Iceberg lettuce is nice and crisp, and is perfect for a hamburger or a tortilla wrap.
The iceberg you can buy at the grocery store is normally plastic warped so that it's protected from most dirt during transport. In general iceberg doesn't contain much dirt, but iceberg are grown directly on the ground and may contain some dirt that you need to wash off before you can use it in your food.
Using this guide it only takes about 2 minutes to wash and cut an entire iceberg.
Level of difficulty: Easy
You’ll Need:
Iceberg lettuce
Chopping board
Knife
Directions:
Step 1: If the iceberg has some bad leaves on the outside, start by removing these.
Step 2: Turn the iceberg over and make a circular cut around the root/core. Take out the core and widen the hole by breaking the lettuce from the center and out.
Step 3: Turn on the water and fill water inside the iceberg through hole where the core was.
Step 4: When the iceberg is filled with water (it can contain a lot), shake it a little and then flip it over and let the water run out.
Step 5: Let the iceberg drip off a bit before you cut it on a chopping board.
Step 6: If you think the lettuce is a bit wet, then use a salad spinner to dry it.
This spinach salad with strawberries and green asparagus is a real summer salad and it's perfect to be served as a side dish for a barbecue party. The fresh strawberries are a great element which brings a fresh and sweet taste to the salad but also gives it a nice look. We are having salads for almost all of our dinner meals mostly because a salad can very delicious but also because it's a great way of getting good oils and vitamins. This salad has many great and very healthy ingredients which makes it one of our favorite salads, and at the same time it's super delicious. [Read more...]
This is a recipe for a very simple and delicious green salad with apples and almonds. The salad takes about 10-15 minutes to prepare and can be served as a side dish for most meat. Because this salad is very light it's a great summer salad and perfect if you are having a barbecue. We normally make this salad if we are in a hurry and still want a healthy element in our dinner. In general we have salads for most of our dinner meals - a salad can be very easy to make and it's a great way of getting a wide variety of different vitamins and oils. [Read more...]
Coleslaw is differently not a new invention but it is only in the resent years that it has become famous in Denmark and Europe in general. The fame of coleslaw is most likely a result of pulled pork which has become super famous in Denmark. Pulled pork and coleslaw is like two inseparable friends - and are both the two ingredients in a pulled pork burger. We have been traveling a lot in the homeland of pulled pork, the US, where pulled pork is one of the national dishes. You can get a pulled porker burger at each street corner - and they are super delicious. We are both in love with this food. [Read more...]
I think most of you have tasted a crunchy broccoli salad sometime in your life. This recipe contains raisins, red onions and pineapple and of course crunchy bacon pieces on top of the salad. It is most definitely the sweet and sour dressing that takes this broccoli salad to the next level.
See also: Recipe for traditional Danish rye bread
You can serve this salad to practically anything you would like – or maybe just as it is for yourself at lunch. [Read more...]
