Summer Special Salad:
Ingredients:
- Water melon – 1 no (medium size)
- Tomato – ½ kg
- Celery – 20 gm
- Orange -4 no
- Grapes -100 gm
- Pineapple (chopped) – 1 cup
- Raisins – 12 no
- Salt and pepper – to taste
Salad Dressing:
- Salad oil – 6 tsp
- Mustard -2tsp
- Chopped onion – 2 no
- Pepper – 2tsp
- Sugar -1 tsp
Blend all the above ingredients in a mixer.
Preparation:
Take the pulp out of the watermelon and put all the chopped fruits and tomatoes into the outer covering of the watermelon. Pour the salad dressing on top. Garnish with raisins.
Serve chilled.
Note: Fruits and vegetables are at their best when eaten in raw and ripe state. They are most beneficial when taken as a separate meal by themselves. So this special salad can be highly beneficial as it gives you all that your body needs without adding extra pounds. Watermelon is really great on a hot summer day. This delicious thirst-quencher is considered to help quench the inflammation that contributes to conditions like asthma, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, colon cancer, and arthritis. Watermelon has lot of vitamin C and is also an excellent source of vitamin A. Watermelon is also a very concentrated source of the carotenoid, lycopene. Being abundant in tomatoes and particularly well absorbed from cooked tomato products containing a little fat such as olive oil, lycopene is also present in large quantities in watermelon and mangoes. Lycopene has been extensively studied for its antioxidant and cancer-preventing properties
