Spinach salad recipes for losing weight

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How to prepare salad with spinach? Everyone should try this useful and tasty dish and pamper their families. That’s why we want to share with you some recipes of spinach salads. We will give you the best three methods for making it.

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Spinach is one of the most common and well-known crops all over the world including African countries. It’s Latin name is Spinacia Oleracea. The plant belongs to the Amaranth family. This is cold-resistant, fast-growing, early-ripening herbaceous plant. Spinach is actively used for cooking of many dishes. The spinach salads are the most popular among people who lead the healthy life style.

Thanks to the cartoon about the sailor Papay who played a huge role in the popularization of spinach, the plant gained world fame and got the exaggerated mythical properties. And yet the real benefit of the plant is beyond doubt. It is a dietary and valuable food and source of many useful and necessary elements for human. The product includes antioxidants that help to destroy cancer cells. That’s why you can’t miss these nice spinach recipes.

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How to make salad with spinach?

The first recipe of spinach salad is very easy. It may take from 20-30 minutes. It depends on your cooking skills.

Salad ingredients

1 bunch spinach
2 slices red onion
1 tomato
6 white mushroom
Ingredients for salad dressing
1/2 cup champagne wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon mustard
2 teaspoon sugar
Salt/pepper.

Cooking directions

Firstly, wash spinach carefully and remove stem. Then let it dry. Remember also that spinach should be chilled. Take care of this in advance.

Secondly, do the same with mushrooms: wash them carefully and let them dry. Then cut off the bottoms of their stems and slice.

Thirdly, take any bowl of middle size and add there mushrooms and spinach. If you desire, you can add tomatoes and red onion to the salad to your liking.

For salad dressing: Take all ingredients for the dressing and place them in any bowl of small size. Whisk them carefully. Finally, add pepper and salt to your taste.

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Spinach salad with fruits

We recommend this salad in warm and hot weather. It’s very light and easy to cook. Follow the next steps to make it.

Salad ingredients

1/2 cups walnuts
1 bunch of fresh spinach
1/2 bunch of green onions
3 pieces of peach
2 tablespoons grapefruit juice
orange juice - 1 piece (you can use juice from the package)
2 table spoons of wine vinegar
2 tablespoons of olive oil
salt to taste
sugar 1/2 cup
cheese to taste
raisins or dried berries to taste.

Cooking directions

At first, take any frying pan and place it on a medium fire to heat it a little. Then reduce fire gradually and pour half a glass of nuts and add sugar. Fry and stir it. Sugar should melt and turn into liquid.

Nuts should be covered with an appetizing caramel crust. Well, remove it from the fire and cool.

Place spinach leaves in any plate. Then do the same with chopped spinach, raisins. Chop green onion. Cut peach into small slices. Put onions and peaches in a plate with a salad. Add prepared walnuts.

Then prepare the dressing for the salad. Mix grapefruit juice, orange juice, sugar (2-3 tablespoons), white wine vinegar, olive oil and salt in a bowl. Pour prepared dressing in the salad and serve it.

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Spinach bacon salad

This is the last Nigerian salad with spinach we want to introduce. It will be perfect for those who like the light dishes but can’t live without meat. Try it and you will not regret.

Salad ingredients

1/4 cup olive oil and vinegar dressing

4 cups bagged spinach

1 cup quartered artichoke hearts

2 hard boiled and sliced eggs

1/4 cup crumbled bacon pieces

Cooking directions

This cooking is quite simple and easy. Firstly, heat the dressing for spinach salad in microwave (olive oil and vinegar dressing.

The second step is a mixing of eggs, spinach, bacon and artichoke hearts in a bowl of middle size. Then just add the heated salad dressing. Finally, it’s ready.

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These salad recipes will surprise you. Moreover, each of them doesn’t take a lot of time. The spinach leaves alone don’t have very delicious and nutritious taste. But if you add them in salad or any other dish, it will give a special and tender taste. They are even used when baking. In short, it’s tasty, useful and fast.