Good day, lovely folks! At present I’m sharing the Frost Salad Recipe with you. Dave and I like to eat salad, and we eat this salad for dinner not less than 5 nights every week. We began with Nattie’s well-known Neidhart salad, and finally it has morphed into our personal factor that Dave dubbed the Frost Salad.
What’s Nattie’s Well-known Neidhart Salad?
What’s Nattie’s Well-known Neidhart Salad? I’m glad you requested! It’s received a base of romaine, vine ripened tomatoes, kalamato olives, avocadoes, pink himalayan sea salt, feta cheese, olive oil, honey, and entire lemon, and krab meat. You may as well add salmon or rooster if you happen to desire.
Frost Salad Recipe Elements
Our salad is chock filled with issues that Dave and I really like which can be wholesome for us. I needed to chop again on the quantity of meat that we had been consuming, however nonetheless have loads of protein in our weight loss program. My each day protein objective is 130 grams of protein, which may be tough to attain! This salad has good protein due to the feta cheese.
- Sunflower microgreens (we use 1 container for two folks)
- 1 avocado (generally 2 if I’m further hungry)
- 1 honey mango
- recent sliced strawberries (1/2 container)
- blueberries (1/2 to entire container)
- cooked beets (1 container)
- feta cheese (1 block)
- crimson cabbage (a number of leaves)
Frost Salad Dressing Recipe
I’m so grateful to Nattie for introducing us to do-it-yourself salad dressing. I can by no means return. We use about 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon of olive oil for two folks for dressing.
Non-compulsory Elements
We additionally generally embody the next, relying on our temper.
- candy onions
- carrot slices
- pineapple chunks
- snap peas
I’ve a variety of meals allergic reactions to issues like bell peppers, paprika, soy, eggplants, and so on, so I’ve to keep away from these veggies. These allergic reactions are additionally what made being vegan and vegetarian not viable for me.
Different Greens
In case you don’t love sunflower microgreens like I do, I’d suggest the next lettuces. Iceberg lettuce has no dietary worth, which is why I don’t look after it although I grew up on it. Butter lettuce is my absolute favourite lettuce.
- romaine lettuce
- butter lettuce
Why These Elements within the Frost Salad?
Why these particular components? Let me let you know!
Sunflower Microgreens
Sunflower Microgreens are considerably extra nutritious for you than lettuce. They’ve vitamin E, B nutritional vitamins, zinc, magnesium, vitamin Ok (good for boen well being and blood clotting).
Avocadoes
Avocadoes are stuffed with wholesome fat that may assist scale back dangerous levels of cholesterol. They’ve potassium, vitamin Ok, vitamin E, vitamin C, and B-vitamins, in addition to fiber.
Honey Mangos
Honey Mangos have nice dietary viber, vitamin A, and vitamin C. These are essential for immune and imaginative and prescient well being.
Honey mangos style like honey drenched peaches, such a tremendous fruit taste!
Strawberries
Strawberries are filled with antioxidants and dietary fiber.
Blueberries
Blueberries are filled with antioxidants and flavonoids to lower irritation.
Theyare a favourite fruit of mine and I really like consuming them each day.
Cooked Beets
Cooked Beets are an ideal supply of fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and manganese. Additionally they have distinctive antioxidants known as betalains that may assist defend towards power situations.
I really like cooked beets they usually at all times makes me consider Grandma once I eat them.
Feta Cheese
Feta Cheese has protein, calcium, and useful probiotics.
Crimson Cabbage
Crimson Cabbage is excessive in fiber and vitamins like vitamin C, vitamin Ok, vitamin B6, and manganese. And it has highly effective antioxidants, together with anthocyanins which have been linked to a spread of well being advantages from decreasing irritation to defending towards coronary heart illness.
I really like the style and crunch of crimson cabbage and have been experimenting with including it to extra meals.
Why 3 Elements within the Dressing?
Why will we use simply 3 easy components in our salad dressing? As a result of it tastes so significantly better to me than Ranch dressing ever did. And these are all good for our well being.
Olive Oil
Olive Oil is filled with wholesome fat like oleic acid, which helps to cut back irritation. Dave and I each have inflammatory situations, so we eat anti-inflammatory meals. It additionally has antioxidants, vitaminE, and phenolic compounds to assist battle off power illness and mobile injury.
Tupelo Honey
Tupelo honey has the next sugar content material than different forms of honey, but it surely additionally has a decrease glycemic index, so it doesn’t elevate your blood sugar ranges as shortly as different honeys. It has antioxidant and antimicrobial properties too.
Lemon Juice
Lemon Juice is one other highly effective antioxidant with vitamin C.
How you can Assemble the Frost Salad
- Put the microgreens within the backside of the massive salad bowl.
- Slice a number of leaves of crimson cabbage.
- Lower honey mango into quarters, take away seed, then slice mango into strips.
- Slice recent strawberries and avocado and add them.
- Add recent blueberries.
- Crumble complete block of feta cheese into the salad.
- Slice the beets and add them. Dave will usually add the beet juice on prime of the feta to stain it reddish purple.
- Drizzle round 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
- Drizzle round 1 tablespoon of honey.
- Drizzle round 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
- With freshly scrubbed arms, use your arms to combine up the salad. I hate doing this as a result of I’ve tactile points and lengthy nails, so Dave nearly at all times does this half for me.
Why Frost Salad?
Why Frost Salad? Effectively, our surname is Frost. It’s that easy. We at present use large steel bowls as our salad bowls, however I’d finally like to search out some handmade purple ones on etsy.
We make this salad not less than 5 occasions every week, generally extra. It began out a lot heavier on veggies however has transitioned to have extra fruit and strange components and I adore it! Feta cheese goes effectively with the beets and all the pieces else in there.
In any given week, you possibly can assure that I’m consuming this salad and my chocolate cherry protein muffins! I additionally eat round 300 grams of peas and carrots each day as a result of I really like my veggies! Peas even have a little bit of protein in them. I get most of my protein from my protein muffins and protein shakes, however peas and feta cheese assist me out too.
Consuming excessive protein has been excellent for me and my well being in response to my physician and my blood work, so I’m going to proceed to keep it up.
