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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

{Recipe} Healthier and Easy to make Salad


Hi there and welcome to my first ever recipe post on “The Myrabev Life”, for the last two months I have been sharing with you all the lovely vegetarian books I have been reading and reviewing but I am yet to share with you some recipes that I either came up with or got the idea from the books. Today’s recipe I whipped up myself at work and it actually tastes really really good. This is the 2nd most ‘Greens or produce’ containing food I have ever consumed in my adult life, like I mentioned in my last book review post – I grew up with a vegetarian lifestyle one not by choice but by necessity. I remember growing up back home and we used avocado (mashed up and added some sugar for taste) only on bread like you would peanut butter or butter so I was very surprised and shocked to see avocado used in salads, since then I have been on a mission to find a way I can have avocado in my salad. Today I am sharing with you my one little creation I am proud of and so excited to share.
Ingredients:
·         Assortment of beans plus herbs (red kidney beans, borlotti beans, cannellini beans, fresh spring onions, red onions, parsley, mint, sliced black olives) I used Three Bean Salad by Delphi which was marinated in olive oil and herbs.
·         Avocado
·         Tomatoes
·         Salt & black pepper
·         Assortment of salad leaves à I bought the Sainsbury assorted salad
·         Optional – German sausages 
Preparation time: under 5 minutes
1.       Cut up the tomatoes to your desired side and sauté with salt/pepper
2.       I prefer my salad leaves really small so I cut mine up and mix with the tomatoes
3.       Microwave the sausages for 1 minute, cut into small desired pieces
4.       Cut up the avocado, I had a whole one (was not too big)
5.       Lastly mix-up everything with the assortment of beans and add a little salt/pepper if you want.

 This is how I made my healthy salad (also vegetarian), it contains all the good stuff I need and the best part I still get my piece of meat (even if it’s just small German sausages). Let me know what you think of my little creation, I am just starting out with trying new things so am very excited for the exploring that I can do.

32 comments:

  1. This is so bright and colourful, looks yummy!

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  2. Looks incredibly tasty. I'd even toss in vegetarian sausage. :] // itsCarmen.com ☼ ☯

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    1. It was so tasty it's now my go to work meal, so excited trying out new things and vegetated sausages are next

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  3. Love the salad, but I'm not a huge fan of beans so I'd omit those and it'd be pretty tasty ;)

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  4. That looks really good! I never thought about putting sausage in my salad, but I'm going to have to try that.

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  5. I love beans in my salads and this reminds me that on my lunch break I need to soap chickpeas to cook for my salads! I love prepping my salads on the weekend so that I can make them super fast during the week!

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  6. Healthy salads are SUCH a good idea! I love this! Too bad lettuce hurts my stomach

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  7. Looks yummy! I love bean salads.

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  8. That looks really tasty! Always looking for new healthier meals to try!

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  9. I love avocado in my salads. Avocado is like the most popular thing about where I live so we put it on or in everything.

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  10. Yum! Veggies are my downfall--I really need to force myself to eat them more often so that I will maybe start liking them.

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  11. It's always interesting how you can make just a simple salad turn into such filling delicious meals.

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  12. Wow, I've never heard of sausages like that in a salad before! Great post :)

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  13. I eat salads all the time and love this variation. Will definitely try it!

    Katie <3

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  14. mmm this salad looks so tasty!

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  15. This salad looks really delicious! I love that you added German sausage to it!

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  16. Yum! this looks so good - and filling! I need to make this!

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  17. I bet the sausage and beans taste great together!

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  18. I would have never thought to put sausages in a salad, I'll definitely have to try it now!

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  19. colorful salad! Not a fan of sausage in my salad as it tends to make me really tired, but everything else looks yummy!

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  20. That sounds like a great salad! I'd like to try to make something like that :)

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  21. I used to eat salads all of the time! I need to get back to it. This one looks good!

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  22. Looks delicious! Always on the look-out for new recipes!

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  23. This looks so yummy! I would leave out the German sausage just because I am vegetarian, but it looks so good nonetheless. I am most def going to need to try this. Thanks so much for sharing!

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  24. Ooh, sausages....ooh beans...ooh salad. Needless to say, I think that sounds pretty good

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  25. Oh YUM! I'm really not a big fan of salads but this I can obviously appreciate!!

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