Loading ...Healthy RecipesRomaine Salad with Lemony Garlic Dressing
This is a light and easy green salad that highlights a vinegar-free dressing. Look for Romaine lettuce with dark green, tightly packed leaves for maximum nutrient benefits.
Serves: 6
Time to Table: 15 minutes
Healing Nutrient Spotlight
Excellent source of vitamin A and vitamin C
Good source of folate and manganese
Ingredients*
Dressing:
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp Tamari soy sauce or Bragg’s Liquid Aminos
1 clove garlic, minced
(If you love authentic Caesar salad dressing flavor, you can add a dash of anchovy paste.)
Whisk ingredients together.
Salad:
6 cups torn Romaine lettuce leaves
1 oz. or about 1/4 cup grated hard cheese (goat or sheep’s milk) or soy Parmesan
Ground fresh pepper
*Select organic ingredients for optimum nutrition.
Preparation
Tear lettuces leaves and place in large bowl. Toss lettuce with dressing mixture, top with cheese, and grate pepper on top to taste.
Nutrition
112 calories, 11 g total fat, 2 g saturated fat, 7 g monounsaturated fat, 1 g polyunsaturated fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 2 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, .5 g sugar, 3 g protein, 1530 IU vitamin A, .2 mg riboflavin, 75 mcg folate, 15 mg vitamin C, .4 mg manganese, 1 mg iron
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hey, the best part of preparing this salad is that it takes just 15 minutes and is also easy to prepare. I can even suggest another salad which is very good for health is sprouted salad, which can be prepared with sprouted “moth”, cucumber and freshly chopped onions, with lemon and salt.Enjoy!
Entered: August 27th, 2008 at 4:27 am. PermalinkYum, I’ll be trying this one tomorrow night!
Entered: December 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am. Permalink