Mally quite likes salad mains and in times past, used to make a vegetarian version of Salad Nicoise, omitting the tuna and anchovy. Saturday night he made a salad that is better described as Salad Mally, with the usual salad base, some fresh and deliciously sweet red pepper, potato, croutons and cubed firm tofu fried in soy sauce. Yum! Delicious, very pretty, low fat and very nutritious*.
*containing among others protein (tofu), carbohydrates and potassium (potatoes), lycopenes (tomatoes), for beta carotene and flavonoids (red pepper), vitamin C (tomatoes and red pepper), fibre and chlorophyll (greens).
If I showed this to my dietitian she would say too many carbs, not enough protein for a balanced meal. Try using either croutons or potatoes or replace the potatoes with sweet potatoes. Add some seeds or nuts to up the protein and good fats :) I can send you my list of "free" vegetables if you like too
ReplyDeleteIf you or your dietician want to change it she can. I quite like the taste of it as it is, thanks. I'll make up for the nutritionional inadequacies later ;)
ReplyDeleteI must add that we usually put a little sprinkle of a seed mixture on our food. the mixture contains flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumkin seed, amongst others.
ReplyDeleteAnd nuts is probably a good idea. Im thinking cashew nuts.