By Bornika Das
October 12, 2023
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Preparing and having healthy meals can really be a difficult task for busy people. They look for quick solutions to keep a good care of their health while they enjoy something yummy. Grain salads can help with this issue. Let's take a look at seven delicious grain salads that will tantalize your taste buds and help you stick to your healthy eating goals.
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Quinoa is loaded with protein, fibre and other important nutrients and it makes a perfect salad by the inclusion of chickpeas, hot peppers, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and spicy lemon tahini.
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Boiling this nutrient-dense millet and then adding it to a salad is a great way to include this Indian grain to your healthy diet. You can add seasonal veggies to it.
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To make this simple yet delicious salad, boil the black rice and add boiled prawns to it along with an easy tempering of curry leaves, mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
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Cooked wild rice, toasted pecans, diced celery, dried cranberries and a honey mustard vinaigrette make a colorful wild rice salad.
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Roasted capsicum, zucchini, red onions and cherry tomatoes are served with boiled barley to make a nourishing salad.
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Bulgur and lentils are cooked separately and mixed with diced red peppers, red onions, jalapenos and hot lime-cilantro sauce.
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By combining cooked couscous with chickpeas, diced cucumbers, red onions and cherry tomatoes you can make a light couscous salad.
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