Delicious Salads recipes

noir_blood

So I been taking salads to work for a few weeks now, and I think I'm getting in a rut. Normally, to save time what I'll do is buy a bag of premade salad, along with a rostiserre chicken from walmart. Throw away the skin and just eat the chicken meat, usually with honey mustard.

First of all, I'm thinking of just buying frozen chicken and grilling it myself rather than buying the rostissere one. I suck at cooking though, so any good recipes I could use to make my chicken more delicious? Or salads you personally enjoy?

starmanbrand

My normal salad that I eat once a day, for lunch or dinner depending on my mood-

I buy bags of Dole Romain lettuce. for whatever reason this salad just tastes better. The lettuce is sweeter, I believe. This is most of the salad. I then buy a smaller bag of a variety, like baby greens or herb salad. I then also have a bag of "broccoli slaw" which is thin strips of broccoli stalk, carrot, and broccoli florets. I mix all of this together, small amounts of the second lettuce and broccoli mixture, to make the base. All in all it is really satsifying, tons of texture, cheap, and enough variety in the bowl that I want to eat it all the time.

As for as toppings, I normally do some jalapenos, bell pepper, croutons, green onion, and cherry tomatoes or any mixture there of. If you learn to cut things smaller so it will spread out i nthe salad, a small amount of any of that will last a long time. One bell pepper and one bunch of green onion can alst me for over a week. I am a fatty, so I usually put some bleu cheese crumbles or sliced pepper jack on my salads as my salad habit started as an offshoot of my sandwich love habit. I then usually put this Kraft Italian Ceasar dressing on it.

Now onto your pressing question- Meat for it. I normally will buy a small pack of Deli Meat (Normally smoked turkey) and cut it into thin strips and put it in the salad. This is quick, cheap, easy, and the smoked flavor adds a ton of flavor.

If you want to grill chicken, the best bet is to find what YOU like. If you like herbs, buy a thing of herb rub from the grocer and use that. My mom loves teriyaki. I love a BBQ sauce marinade. Hell, if you grill chicken correctly, about the best seasoning is just salt and pepper. Grilling chicken yourself is great because you can put exactly what you want on it. If you want, you could even ask at the grocery store what type of seasoning is on the chicken you already buy and just try your best to copy it or find a recipe for it online.

Edit: Damn this was a lot longer than I expected it to be.
Tl;Dr- Mix a variety of salad greens with a cheaper part to cut costs. For stuff to put on it, make a variety of textures. For meat, use thin strips of the delimeat of your choice or grill the chicken to how you like it. It depends on if you like sweeter chicken (like BBQ Sauce or Teriyaki) or an herby chicken (Mixed herb rub or salad dressing marinade).

Kalkino

So far as green salads go I generally use a mixture of lettuce types - 2 or 3 if I can be bothered - cherry tomatoes or some bigger vine ripened tomatoes (whatever has a strong flavour), sliced peppers/capsicums, purple or spring onions and sliced radishes. If I am feeling fancy I'll add things like croutons or say boiled eggs, or cold shredded chicken. I tend to not use sauces or the like as I like to taste the flavours of the individual items more than the overweaning taste of a sauce.

Niceguy Myeye

Spinach instead of lettuce. Other than that put in what you like.

Yum.

DeShadowC

Niceguy Myeye wrote: »

Spinach instead of lettuce. Other than that put in what you like.

Yum.

Baby spinach leaves if you can get them

xa52

Just don't get anything with iceburg lettuce in it.

Chicken grilled plain is fine in a salad. You've got dressing anyway.

I like lettuce (anything but iceburg or spinach in this one), garbanzos, thin sliced red onion, and feta, along with some combination of bell pepper, celery, cucumber and tomato depending on what looks good in the store. Dress with salt, pepper, dried dill, lemon juice, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Grilled chicken is good on top but not necessary with the beans.