Showing posts with label Salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salad. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2011

Popular Toppings Used in Salad Bars: A Guide to Help You Choose Better

Are you a fitness freak who believes in eating healthy and good? Surely the perilous effects of obesity have left modern people with little option but to change their eating habits. Be it in fear or will, the scenario of food industry has surely gone for a massive change where more and more people try to eat fresh and organic food items.
With this new trend of the age, there can be no denying that the notion of salad bar is rapidly growing in popularity in different parts of the world. Prepared with a variety of vegetables, fruits and other fresh food items, a bowl of salad is always the best appetizer that not only keeps your health happy but also takes care of your hunger anytime and anywhere.
It's a known fact the every individual nurtures a different eating habit. That goes true even when preparing salads as it is observed that every people has his own choice of salad toppings. In salad bar, it is therefore important that there is a wide array of salad toppings available so that customers can pick the items of their choice and enjoy a hearty time savoring on a bowl of tasty and lip smacking salads.

Know the basics of salad toppings
Think of salad and you are bound to think of lettuce leaves… The attractive green leaves with its bushy ends do make for a must have that not only helps you add a dash of creative imagination in your salad preparation but also adds to the nutrient value. While previously salad bars conventionally used iceberg lettuce, now a day things have gone for a change with varied types such as red lettuce being tried out to add color, brightness and attractiveness to the salad. Not only lettuce, salad bars of today also use baby spinach mix as another commonly used salad topping item.

Vegetable Variation
No salad is complete without a generous serving of vegetables that makes the prime ingredient of the dish. Considered as nature's best gift to mankind, vegetables come available in a riot of colors and nutrition quotient. Toss in as much vegetables you want and make your bowl an attractive play of hues. Some popularly available salad topping at Salad Bar includes beets, mushrooms, onion, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, tomato, cucumbers, green olives etc.

Cheese: From feta to grated
Cheese is another product that goes invariably with salad. But previously only a handful of salad bars used to have only a small section for cheese, modern day outlets offer a much bigger and varied cheese section. Check out the cheese section of salad bar and you can easily avail your choice of cheese ranging from feta cheese, Swiss cheese, cottage cheese to grated cheese.

A Healthy Salad Recipe

You support the new movement about ‘green is better'? Now a day, with people becoming more and more health conscious, eating fresh and organic is the craze that is making it big in the industry of food and restaurant. If you also support this new move and has plans to invest in franchise green is better campaign, gear up to add some more healthy food items in your restaurant menu so that it allows your customers to enjoy a variety of delicacies without gaining calories anymore. Here in this article we bring for you the recipe of a yummy and delectable salad that you can consider adding to your franchise green is better restaurant: 

Taco Salad Ingredients:
• Crushed garlic
• Chicken/ turkey sliced
• Chopped cilantro
• Low fat sour cream
• Canola oil
• Lettuce leaves
•Grated cheese
• Chopped and diced tomatoes
• Rinsed kidney beans
• Salsa
• Chopped onion
• Cumin seeds
• Chili powder

Preparation Method: 
Take a bowl and add salsa and the cream together.Keep it aside for later use.
Now heat oil in a pan and add the onions, garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add the chicken or turkey in it and cook again till tender for around 5 minutes. Toss in the tomatoes, beans, chili powder and cumin all together and stir and cook till the seeds starts breaking into pops.
Remove from heat and now add the salsa and cream mixture in it. Toss in lettuce in the bowl and mix well. Add grated cheese and serve.
Intake of nutrition in this meal of Taco salad: Fat, Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Carbohydrate, Dietary Fiber, Sugars, Protein, Calcium.