How to Make Your Own Salad (and dressing)
It’s empowering to make your own food, and no more so than salads. Super-nutritious and much cheaper than plastic bagged salads, with more variety too!
Oh She Glows Salads is a wonderful guide to create your own protein-backed salad recipes, for each season. No more tasteless plastic bags of salad from the supermarket, with this book you can make your own with healthy ingredients, to store in the fridge.
From refreshing spring and summer bowls to cosy hearty salads for autumn and winter, you’ll soon discover favourites to enjoy again and again.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many foods are unsafe near animal friends). Bin allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallots, chives) and citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps, as acids could harm compost creatures. It’s okay to put them in food waste bins (made into biogas).
For tinned foods, fully remove lids (put inside) or pop ring-pulls back over holes (and pinch top opening closed) before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.
Recipes include:
- Glow Up Pesto Dream Bowl
- Roasted Chickpea and Parm Romaine Crunch Salad
- The Ultimate Ranch Barbecue Tofu Cobb Salad
- Roasted Mediterranean Lentil Salad
- Autumn Crunch Farro Kale Salad
Plus the book has plant-based protein toppers, creamy dressings, vibrant vinaigrettes and savoury cheeses to create restaurant-worthy salads at home.
Angela is one of the world’s best-selling vegan cookbook authors, and author of many recipe books. She lives with her family in Canada.
Tomato & Artichoke Salad (with chickpeas)
This Tomato & Artichoke Salad with Chickpeas (Short Girl, Tall Order) is a refreshing summer lunch recipe, making use of fresh tomatoes and canned artichoke hearts, along with tinned chickpeas for protein and calcium.
Homemade Vegetable Salad (with garlic)
This homemade vegetable salad with garlic (The Simple Veganista) combines cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, onion and garlic, in a homemade lemon Dijon mustard oil dressing.
Homemade Fruity Salad Dressing Recipes
Virgin Olive oil is better for salad dressings health-wise than for cooking (rapeseed oil is better). Some people say we should not eat oil at all (and get all fat from real foods – i.e olives over olive oil). There are debates.
Try these fruity salad dressings (The Veg Space) including raspberry vinaigrette.
