Salad recipes that are perfect for all occasions and seasons, full of nutritions and colour.
There are fruits out there that are perfect for both desserts and savoury dishes. Figs are undoubtedly one of those fruits. I had my first figs a few years ago in Croatia. They were sweet as honey, full of flavour and simply delicious. Last Friday, my Hungarian grandmother gave me a basket of figs from…
Pasta salad is a great dish that can be served not only as a snack but also as a dinner. Thanks to the pasta content, this salad will make you feel full fast. For me, pasta-based salads go best with fresh vegetables. Sometimes, I add meat to them as well, in which case I usually…
I got the below recipe from a friend 18 years ago. To this day, this salad is one of my favourite tuna salads. Certainly many of you are familiar with the combination of tuna with pineapple and sweetcorn. Most often this mix can be found on pizza. However, if you do not fancy this combo…
Kohlrabi is a cruciferous vegetable with a soft center, ideal to be eaten raw, in a salad or cooked as a vegetable stew or soup. You can already find several recipes for kohlrabi dishes on the blog, both cooked and raw. This time, I want to encourage you to make a healthy kohlrabi salad with…
One of the most common ways for combining vegetables is salads. Virtually, all vegetables can be served as a salad, let them be in raw, cooked or pickled form. However, if you are bored already with making salads, make a vegetable cake instead. The vegetable cake, whose recipe I am presenting you below, is prepared…
It might seem that frozen vegetables don’t taste good, but this dish confirms quite the opposite. Unfortunately, some out-of-season vegetables are somewhat difficult to buy fresh. That is the case with green beans. Sometimes, it’s possible to get fresh green beans in larger supermarkets, even when out of season, but unfortunately, not always. Luckily though,…
I recommend the following salad for everyone who likes combining canned tuna with vegetables. In salads, you can combine any kind of ingredients. Sometimes those ingredients are carefully selected, other times all sorts “leftovers” from the fridge end up in the salad. Either way, it’s worth making salads from any ingredient as they are fast…
I do not know how many times I have seen on various forums requests from people for recipes with minced meat. The thing is that in these requests there was usually an annotation that these recipes should not be for spaghetti or lasagne. 😀 It turns out that both of these dishes seem to be…
A salad full of vitamins, minerals and proteins – all thanks to the presence of beetroot, pomegranate and walnuts. The first main ingredient of the salad, beetroot, is mainly served in Poland in a soup called borscht. Less often, but it is also used in baking, salads and fillings. As everyone knows, beets are a…
Mushroom salad is one of those salads that always disappear very quickly from any party table at my home. I have a couple of favourite mushroom salad recipes, I usually choose one of them. To one, I add ham, to the other ones, grilled mushrooms or cheese. When it comes to the selection of mushrooms,…
Fennel is such a plant whose every part can be used for cooking. Its bulbs are used for salads, baked and grilled, its fruit for seasoning sauces, meats and vegetables, whereas its leaves for dressings and as a seasoning for roasted vegetables and fish. Today’s recipe uses fresh fennel bulbs. Fennel combines wonderfully with citrus…
A healthy quinoa salad with glazed carrots, pecan nuts, radish and parsnip chips is without a doubt a salad you must make. It is a perfect salad to serve for your guests, as a light lunch to take to work or as an addition to other dishes. The salad is flavoured according to taste with…