Best Salads You Can Eat in These Hot Summers!

Pakistan has really hot summers which make eating your favourite tikka, karahi, paye not as fun as you would hope! Sweating and eating hot, oily food isn’t a great idea. Summer is the time to enjoy salads and other light items. People on diets consider salads as their best friend. The best thing about salads is they take minimal time to be made and if you are just too busy and want a salad with a really tasty dressing then you can just use an order food online service. 

There is a misconception that salads never taste good and are only eaten when it’s necessary. You can make salads very tasty and enjoyable if you want! There are hundreds of recipes available with a multitude of dressings too! Once you learn how tasty salads can be, you’ll want to have them regularly for lunches and dinners. Also, keep in mind that salads don’t mean only vegetables; you can have veggies, fruits and herbs in it! Here are the best and easiest salads for you: 

Melon Salad;

Summers and melons go hand in hand. Sugar melon and watermelon both seem like summer blessings. Why not add them together in a salad? Here’s how you make the dressing for it- add honey, pepper powder, basil leaves and salt. Put this dressing on top of the bowl filled with cubes of melon. Mix well and sprinkle some honey and pepper powder at the end. Garnish it with mint leaves and your melon salad is ready! 

Russian Salad: 

Russain salad is famous around the globe because it’s not just a snacking salad- it’s a complete meal! There are so many items in this salad- boiled potatoes, cabbage, apples, carrots, and boiled macaroni. All these items are mixed together in a bowl and in another bowl, mayonnaise and cream and mixed with salt, pepper and sugar till a thick sauce is formed. The veggie-fruit-pasta mixture is added in this bowl and shaken well. It’s then left in the fridge for some time to chill. Many people like to eat it with garlic bread or simple bread. 

Caesar Salad: 

Caesar salad provides you with the best combination of cream and crispiness. It’s pretty simple to make and only requires a handful of ingredients. Toasted croutons of leftover bread should be preferred as they taste amazing. As this salad is all about dressing- the dressing needs to be creamy with a lot of garlic and parmesan cheese and black pepper. In a bowl add chopped lettuce and the dressing and shake it well. Then add shaved Parmesan. As parmesan is salty, adjust the seasoning after you’ve added it. Serve the salad after assembly. 

Potato BBQ Salad: 

Potato BBQ is a salad with a pleasant twist! The main ingredient of this salad is potato. There are very few ingredients required to make it - potatoes, vinegar, garlic, olive oil, sugar, mayonnaise, and barbecue sauce. 

You need to bake potatoes in a preheated grill till they are tender- it takes around 30 minutes. The dressing is made by whisking vinegar, salt, olive oil, black pepper, mayonnaise and bbq sauce in a bowl. This is what you put on top of your tender potatoes and then mix well! 

Fruit Salad: 

Like mentioned earlier, you don’t need to limit salads to veggies! Fruits make for delectable salads. Fruit salad is a very common, easily made salad that is popular all over the world with a lot of possible customizations! 

You simply need to cut our favourite fruits in a bowl, mix them well and season it with salt, pepper, lemon juice and orange juice. Whip some cream and sugar and add it to the mixture and you have a hard-to-resist, super jimmy salad at your hands that is perfect for boosting your energy levels and keeping you active throughout the day!