Green Salad Recipes

Green salads are one of our favorite things, and there are now a huge number of organic salad bags with fresh ready to eat green salad at the market in the produce section. These are excellent green salad recipes starter bags of salad leaves, ready for you to take home, put in a bowl, dress with premade dressings, and eat. But not all of us like this ready to eat salad formula. Some of us still like to touch our food, know where it has been prepared, and ensure that it meets our high standards before we eat it. If you are like this, then our gorgeous green salad recipes are for you. If you just want to make your own green salad recipe because it is cheaper and easy to make as a quick salad recipe and a low fat salad recipe, then this is also for you!

Gorgeous Green Salad Recipes

Green salad recipes fit within both of these categories if you pay attention to what you are putting into your green salad recipes. Our green salad recipes set out below are ideal low fat recipes and healthy salad recipes. With the right dressing they are also tasty and good for you. Olive oil anyone? Delicious, and recent studies have shown that olive oil is good for you. The Mediterranean diet is a good one, and these great green salad recipes feature in the diets from that area of the world!

Great Green Salad Recipes - Ingredients

Mixed lettuce to suit number of people being fed. A handful for each person.

Romaine, cos, green leaf, gem, or any that you like.

1 cup blanched chopped green beans

1 cup watercress

1/4 cup sweet corn (from can, cooked from frozen)

Fresh chopped basil to taste

Salt and pepper to taste

Gorgeous Green Salad Recipes - Method

Mix lettuce in a bowl with the washed watercress, properly cleaned and stripped of inedible parts. Add blanched chopped green beans (make sure they are cooked enough, but still crunchy) with sweet corn. Apply your favorite salad dressing and add salt and pepper to taste, and garnish with the freshly picked and chopped basil. It is that simple, and really delicious! Truly these are gorgeous green salad recipes.