I love salads but my main complaint is the fact that I never find a dressing that is low fat and tastes good. I want it to taste like restaurants but healthy. Anyway, I finally found a salad and dressing that I can make at home that tastes like restaurant quality. This picture is not my salad but pretty close to what it looks like when finished minus the chips and cheese. You can adjust all of the ingredients according to taste, sometimes I just start mixing.
Dressing:
3 limes juiced
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1/2 TBSP sugar or honey (this can be variated depending on how sweet you want it)
1/4 cup veg oil
whole bunch of cilantro
1 tsp minced garlic
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 chipolte pepper in ADOBE sauce (I'm sure you're wondering what this is, you find it in most grocery stores in the mexican food aisle, comes in a can like green chile peppers, must have adobe sauce) you then pick one of the peppers out of the can and dice it, realize that if you do not like spicy then omit the pepper and just use adobe sauce
1 TBSP adobe sauce
COmbine all in a blender, and enjoy for a week or so.
Salad:
romaine lettuce
corn
tomatoes diced
cooked onions, green peppers, and red peppers
black beans
chicken (optional)
cilantro
avocado( makes the salad in my opinion)
cheese and crushed chips (optional, cut it out if watching calories, the salad is just great without)
Like I said before I LOVE this salad and feel like it is pretty healthy.I will be continuing on my qwest for great salad dressings.
