Fresh and Easy Salad Toppers
Do you love a good, fresh salad? Want a better way to quickly whip up a delicious salad at dinnertime? While bagged salads are convenient and easy, making your own fresh salad using a variety of salad toppings is also simple. It all starts with the basics.
Salad Greens
Iceberg lettuce is an excellent go-to salad green as most people generally have a head of lettuce on hand for sandwiches and salads. Hearts of romaine lettuce are also nice. Spinach leaves, especially baby spinach, make a healthy salad base filled with nutrients.
Garden Salad Toppers
Adding tomatoes to a fresh salad isn?t exactly innovative. In fact, it?s a given that a fresh garden salad might have tomatoes, green onions, bell peppers, and celery. Consider adding different veggies such as corn, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, green beans, olives, artichoke hearts, peas, shredded carrots, or avocado. Set aside a small portion of veggies each night specifically for the following night?s salad topping.
Salad Cheese
Cheese adds a touch of protein, color, and flavor to salads. Sharp cheddar, feta cheese, mozzarella, and blue cheese each add a unique flavor ? and perhaps a foreign flair ? to your homemade salad. Depending on your mood, you can make an Italian salad, Greek salad, or a plain old delicious salad based on the cheese you choose. You don?t need Greek salad recipes to enjoy a Mediterranean-inspired salad when you have a chunk of feta cheese at your disposal.
Meat Salad Toppers
While a Caesar salad is made even heartier by adding grilled chicken slices, other fresh salads benefit by the addition of meat. Salad toppings such as salami, shrimp, turkey, bacon, and ham all add a nice touch to your homemade salad. Consider serving a hearty salad with meat as the main entr
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