I have been asked many times to add salad in my daily food. While I am not a huge fan of eating salad, who said i can’t make it interesting to eat. Healthy food can be fun too. As this salad has vegetables along with fruits it already has a lot of flavor on its own. I was going to make a simple lemon dressing. But when I opened my fridge to get lemon I saw a nice bottle of dessert rose (pink wine). I couldn’t resist and made a wine dressing instead. The wine bought out the fruit flavor and the lemon enhanced it. That mixed with vegetables was amazing to eat. Try it out.

Preparation time: 30 min

Serves: 4 people

Calorie per serving: 203.36

Ingredients:

For the salad:

1             – Ice burg lettuce (shredded)
2             – Apple (small cube)
2             – Orange or sweet lime ( remove the flesh part)
1 1/2      – Pomegranate
1/2         – Cabbage (shredded)
1            – Cucumber (cube)
1            – White onion big (cut in half and thin slice)
1            – Capsicum (cube- green)
8-10       – Olives (black- cut)
Coriander to garnish (optional)

For the dressing:

90 ml    – Wine (I used rose, you can also use white wine)
30 ml    – lemon juice
1 tsp     – Sugar (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste.

Method:

Cut the fruits and vegetables as suggested. Keep all of them separately. Keep lettuce and cabbage together. Put few ice cubes in between. Cover it up. Put all the fruits and vegetable in fridge and remember to cover it.
Make the dressing fresh before serving. In a bowl, Mix all dressing ingredients with a whisk properly.
In a big bowl, Put all vegetables and fruits. Pour the dressing on it. Toss it properly. Serve fresh.

Note:

Keeping all cut vegetable and fruits separately  is necessary. The water starts excrete if you mix them long before using. Keeping them covered is also necessary as the vegetables and fruit can go dry. Adding ice to the lettuce and cabbage makes it crunchy. Apple it is preferable to cut before serving as it can go brown. If you do not have time to do that, you can cut it along with other fruits. Add little lemon. Lemon prevents the apple from going brown.
Which wine you use is also necessary. If you are using a dessert wine do not add sugar as its already sweet. If you are using early harvest wine, they are usually dry and little bitter. Add sugar and whisk well until the sugar melts.
Mixing everything right before serving is very important.

 

Happy munching!

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