Overview

Looking for a fun way that you can encourage your child to eat more fruits and vegetables? You can try some interesting salads, kids will be glad to help you to prepare them and the whole family will enjoy them.

Additionally, the salads could be one of the first dishes that children can begin to prepare by themself. As long as parents chop ingredients, there is no difficulty in preparing a delicious salad.

Here are some vegetarian recipes for salads, healthy for the whole family.


Contents

1. Overview
2. Recommended salads

Recommended salads

Salad with strawberries

Strawberries will be a pleasant and sweet ingredient to any salad, agreed by every child. Add them to salad of spinach. You can also add other fruits such as nectarines or pineapple or chunks of avocado, cucumber and some cheese. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar or fruit sauce for more flavor.

Salad with black beans, corn and blueberries

Combine one cup of blueberries, a cup of corn and a cup of cooked and drained black beans. Mix it with a vinaigrette sauce made from one teaspoon of olive oil, a teaspoon balsamic vinegar 1/2 teaspoon salt, juice of 1/2 lemon and 2 tablespoons of chopped cilantro. Add the some lettuce if you double the amount of sauce.

Salad with blueberries, walnuts and oranges

If your child loves oranges, this salad will immediately become his favorite salad. Juicy oranges, redcurrants jam and crunchy texture of walnuts will make every teaspoon of the salad to be far from boring. Simply peel oranges, add a handful of blueberries and break some nuts, along with a few leaves of spinach. Everything will be sprinkled with your favorite sauce.

Southwestern salad

Mix a few grains of corn cooked beans, chopped tomatoes, diced red onion and chopped leeks. Then add the juice of one lemon, 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, one tablespoon chopped coriander and powder some salt, pepper and chili powder. Allow to marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes, then add a few pieces of avocado in your salad and enjoy. Place ingredients on a piece of lettuce. Put a little dressing on top.

Salad with cabbage, carrots and pears

The recipe involves adding the composition of the sweetness of pear, plus some cabbage and 2 cups peeled and sliced carrots, a pear and a handful of toasted almonds. Add a special sauce made from 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 tablespoons rice vinegar, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, 2 teaspoons of sugar and a dash of salt and pepper. The salad will be decorated with sesame seeds.

Cherry salad with peanuts

Prepare this salad by mixing cherry, crunchy hazelnut, radishes and lettuce, which will add your child’s favorite fruit sauce.

Rainbow salad

To make salad preparation time really fun, challenging your children to create a rainbow salad. Depending on the season, try to find and buy at least one fruit or vegetable that will match as many colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. In this way not only will encourage children to eat more vegetables, but as they are more colored, the nutrients it contains are more varied.

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