August 24, 2008

Recipes to Love - My Big Salad

I get a lot of questions about the big salad that I make and eat all the time. It is just a chopped vegetable salad, but somehow the mix really works and is very tasty. The salad is also user friendly due to buying a few pre-chopped vegetables. The salad will last for approximately 5 days. I eat it at lunch and dinner and it is great with chicken. You will notice there is no cheese, croutons, nuts or seeds in it. Because that would defeat the purpose of the chopped vegetable salad.

1 - large head, green leaf lettuce
1 - tiny head bibb lettuce
1 - tiny head raddiccio
1 - red bell pepper
1 - yellow bell pepper
1 - largish cucumber, skin removed
1 - container precut tomatoes
1 - container sliced mushrooms
1 - bag matchstick carrots
1 - most of 1 large celery
optional - broccoli

I chop the above ingredients rather finely. I dislike salad bars and how large all the ingredients are. Bite size is preferable and easier to eat.

The mix of color and textures makes this salad a winner and never boring to eat.

For dressing I prefer Kraft Fat Free Italian or Fat Free Caesar. I do cheat with Naturally Fresh Lite Peppercorn Ranch sometimes too.