Low Fat Salad Recipes
Beet Salad Recipe
This Beet Salad Recipe is one of many in
our collection of Low Fat Recipes. these are culled from various
sources, some my own. whilst some are low carb recipes, there are also
some low fat recipes, and diabetic recipes. The one thing they
all have in common with this Beet Salad Recipe, is that they can
all be seen as diet recipes in one form or another.
Remember, this Beet Salad Recipe will only help you lose weight if you use it as part of a carefully controlled weight loss program.
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Beet Salad Recipe
Beet Salad Recipe
Ingredients:
4 medium beets, scrubbed -root ends and -1 inch of stems left intact -3/4 pound
1/3 cup walnuts
1 bunch watercress or arugula, trimmed -about 5 cups
1/2 cup curry vinaigrette -see recipe
1 golden delicious apple, quartered -cored and thinly sliced
1 stalk celery, thinly sliced
1/4 cup raisins
Instructions:
1. In a large pot, steam beets until tender, about 30 minutes. 2. In a
small dry skillet, toast walnuts over low heat, stirring, until fragrant,
about 5 minutes (or toast in a toaster oven). Let cool; coarsely chop. Set
aside. 3. When beets are done, slip off skins under running water. Cut
beets into wedges and set aside. 4. In a large shallow serving bowl, toss
watercress (or arugula) with one-third of the vinaigrette. 5. In a bowl,
toss apple, celery and reserved walnuts with half of the remaining
vinaigrette. Mound in center of greens. Make a well in the apple mixture.
6. In the bowl, toss raisins and reserved beets with remaining vinaigrette.
Arrange in the center of the apple mixture. Serve immediately.
MAKES 4 SERVINGS.
225 calories per serving; 5 grams protein; 13 grams fat(1 gram saturated
fat); 25 grams carbohydrate; 210 mg sodium; 0 mg cholesterol; 6 grams
fiber.
Busted by Gail Shermeyer <4paws@netrax.net>
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Preparation Time: 0:00
Servings: 4
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