Black Chickpeas & Cheese Salad

My family members are great fan of cheese especially in salads. If i want to feed them easily with salads, i dont forget to some cheese cubes, so that they can enjoy both their bowl of salad along with cheese. When i picked Kid's delight Summer salads as theme for this week's blogging marathon i was very much sure about making a salad with cheese. Since i had some cooked black chickpeas in my fridge i couldnt stop myself to adding them while making this easy breezy summer salad for our dinner. Yes its summer here,obviously i dont think more than preparing some easy and healthy salads for our dinner just to avoid cooking after some hectic busy schedules.One among those summer salads is this cheese loaded chickpeas salad with couple of vegetables in it.

Watermelon & Greek Yogurt Salad

You might have noticed that i have been posting Summer friendly salads for this week's blogging marathon which was totally enjoyed and approved by my kids. Yes this week's blogging marathon's theme goes for Kid's friendly - Summer salads. When summer season starts, we look eagerly for Summer fruits especially for mangoes and watermelons. We just love these two fruits very much and we never fail to buy them once they shows their heads in our farmer's market. Watermelon is everyone's favourite summer fruit. Once i picked Summer salads as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i planned myself to dish out a simple salad with watermelon to stick with the theme for this week.

Red Cabbage Coleslaw/Purple Cabbage Coleslaw

We are officially entered to Summer season since two days back, obviously i have been preparing some summer salads for our evening dinner as they are easy to dish out. I love to prepare my own dose of coleslaw at home. Coleslaw is a salad prepared mainly with finely shredded raw cabbage, which is usually served with a vinaigrette or mayonnaise dressing. Coleslaw is definitely a prefect summer salad as they are really very easy to dish out. This salad can be prepared earlier as they are easy to conserve and serve chilled for a meal. It can be served very well as side dish with grilled meats or fried meats or else they can be served along with French fries.Colselaw can be used in filling for making some sandwiches as well.

Quinoa and French Lentils Salad

I just love French lentils cooked with loads of garlic and thyme, when served along with baguette slices, i can finish my lunch or dinner happily. Actually cooking lentils with garlic and thyme is a classic French dish, a super aromatic protein rich dish as crushed garlic cloves are sauteed with thyme leaves.French lentils works awesome for making some delicious salads as well. And my today's dish is a prefect dish to cook with this nutritious lentils. French lentils are also known as Le Puy Lentils which is easily available in all provisional stores here. Needless to say how nutritious this lentils are, obviously lentils are rich in protein and extremely rich in dietary fiber as well.

Cold Potato Salad with Mayonnaise

Potato, this vegetable is our family favourite, we love it in any form, either as roasts or in gravies or else simply in salads, we love it to the core. We love chilled potato salads anytime, especially while packing salads for picnic. And my today's recipe calls for cubed potatoes, cubed tomatoes and cooked chickpeas which is simply flavored with a quick mayonnaise-mint leaves dressing. Very easy and simple to prepare this salad will definitely please anyone's tastebuds. With some crispy bread slices, enjoy this fantastic salad as a starter, am sure you will definitely love it to the core

Mixed Vegetables Couscous Tabbouleh

Tabbouleh is a must for us while the weather is too hot outside, obviously picnic is much needed once the Sun god shows his face. We wait eagerly for hot weather here after hibernating for almost 6 months under the nasty chilled,snowy climate. You must visit Paris when the weather is hot, you can see easily each and every public gardens will be filled with peoples either taking sun baths or else with their picnic baskets. We love to pack foods for picnic almost every weekend during summer. Obviously Tabbouleh have its important place in our picnic basket as this chilled salad please everyone's tastebuds easily. Tabbouleh is very easy to prepare with simple ingredients. Spiced with pepper powder, salt and olive oil, this tabbouleh is definitely a prefect summer salad to enjoy without any fuss.

Morot-och Russin Sallad/Swedish Carrot & Raisin Salad

Carrot is one of  the Sweden’s most popular vegetables, obviously carrot have their own place in most of their menus. Every little coffee shop serves a slice of carrot cake which is a must in their menu card.If you are eating out in Sweden, lunch is particularly good value as most restaurants will include a serve - yourself salad bar where you can eat as much salad as you want. Sometimes prepared with just a simple dressing, or perhaps mixed with kale, spinach, this carrot salad can be prepared easily with raisins. The crunchniess of the carrots make this salad more interesting and the addition of  sweet golden raisin gives a fabulous sweetness. Of course, the recipe is really pretty international, so Swedish peoples are not alone in liking it.

Vegan Quinoa & Black Beans Tabbouleh Salad

My kids are biggest fans of Tabbouleh salad and its been a while i prepared them at home. When i picked Kid's delight-Soups and Salads as theme for this week's blogging marathon i immediately thought of making this fantastic aromatic salad. But instead of preparing this salad with Bulghur, i replace bulghur with quinoa. Quinoa works awesome for preparing this salad and to make it more healthier, i couldnt stop myself adding some cooked black beans. Trust me whoever love tabbouleh will definitely enjoy thoroughly this super healthy, nutritious, easy breezy chilled salad. Since this tabbouleh is quite easy to prepare, you can make this salad few hours before your lunch. Obviously you can plan this dish earlier to enjoy your lunch happily especially during summer. Served chilled, this salad is quite a satisfying and filling salad to enjoy with some grilled meats or grilled vegetables.

Chilled Vegetable Salad

During recent days, Paris climate was rainy and chilled but suddenly few weeks back its was like summer. The weather was very much hot drastically and we were happy to arrange our winter coats in cupboards. While the weather was extremely hot,i couldnt stop myself preparing some chilled salad to enjoy those sunny days. One among those salads is this super quick and easy chilled salad. Just go on with some chopped vegetables and a quick creamy dressing with buttermilk and mayonnaise, mix everything and your salad is ready to serve after sitting few minutes in fridge. To add the zing, i even went on adding some mini mozzarella balls and cubed potatoes, kids went crazy when i served this fantastic summer salad.

Spicy & Easy Guava Salad

This salad was sitting in draft since a long, yep almost a year, i simply tried making this quick, easy and spicy guava salad with unripen green guavas. Those green guavas suits absolutely prefect to make this easy salad with less efforts, apart from chopping guava as thin sliced you doesnt need anything to do,obviously you can make this incredible salad just in few seconds. I had a chance to enjoy Guavas after a long when i was in India last year. Everytime,i miss Guava season there and its been ages i had them, obviously when i saw them in markets, i couldnt resist to get them often until the season ends, thank god i could make some drinks and salad out of this incredible fruit.

Chilled Potato Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Salad with some bread slices makes a prefect meal especially for people who want to diet. Dieting doesn't mean stay hungry, we can eat healthy, fibre rich and low calorie foods happily if you are in diet. One among the salads i recently prepared to fill my hungry tummy is this ultimate salad. Actually this chilled potato salad makes an excellent meal as they are seriously filling, healthy, refreshing and crunchy as this salad goes for easy preparation.I went for an interesting yogurt dressing to dress this healthy salad though you can simply prepare your dressing just with salt, pepper powder and olive oil.

Cucumber Sour Cream Salad

A well known salad with cucumber is this super creamy cucumber sour cream salad. Quite easy to make and very refreshing salad to relish happily while the climate is too hot. However this super delicious salad can be served as an accompaniment to serve along with some grilled meats.If you are planning to make this easy breezy salad, dont forget to pick thin cucumbers with small seeds or else simply some seedless cucumber. Dill leaves are usually added to this salad, but i went with mint leaves, this works awesome. Obviously if you want a super refreshing salad for the upcoming summer, then you have to give a try to this crunchy salad.

Chickpeas Summer Salad

Few days back, suddenly it was too hot here and i cant even stand in my kitchen to cook for our dinner. Since none at home want to have their dinner, instead of going to bed with empty stomach, i quickly prepared this simple, quick and very refreshing salad with chickpeas to serve for our dinner. We just finished having a small bowl of salad and went to bed with a satisfying dinner. This salad makes an excellent filling dinner, actually i love to make these kind of easy breezy nutritious salads for our lunch or for our dinner. Summer salads are easy to dish out depending upon the vegetables you can find in your fridge. Just add any vegetables, whatever you want to add in a bowl of salad and make your healthy bowl of summer salad.

Lunch Salad with Cherry Tomatoes,Red Bellpepper and Sweet Corn

Salads are one of my favourite whenever we dont feel like having heavy foods for lunch i'll make salads just for me, obviously if my kids and H wont come to home for lunch i'll go for salads.I do varieties of salads and salads are easy to make, just few lettuce leaves, cubed tomatoes and cucumber is enough to make a quick salad.My fridge is always stuffed with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, lettuce leaves and some canned sweet corn kernels.Summer is around the corner here and the Sun god is just showing his head here and there, its not too hot here but the weather is very prefect to have a bowl of salad for a lunch.

This salad is from a French magazine supplement called Summer salads, i picked this quick and super simple salad for my yesterday's lunch, trust me this salad is so simple even a kid with the help of an adult can prepare this salad easily. I finished my lunch just with this salad if you want to a filling lunch make a sandwich and have it along with this salad. As per the recipe, i went for a quick lime dressing with simple ingredients too. This post goes  for the CC Challenge of the month.Sending this salad to NCR - Soups and Salads.

Mixed Vegetable Salad Trifle

Trifle is usually prepared for dessert with a layer fof cake, fruits, custard cream, but for a change i tried making a colourful, crunchy vegetable salad trifle for our dinner two days back. Serving salad as a trifle makes it more interesting and very appealing to kids. Instead of cake we usually go for making a dessert trifle, i have added few croutons aka seasoned bread pieces and i topped it with chopped vegetables like tomatoes,carrots,beetroots and thinly sliced olives.You can mix and match vegetables as you desire for making this quick trifle. To dress up this refreshing salad, i simply prepared a cheesy dressing with low fat cream cheese with pepper powder,olive oil, dry herbs and a pinch cumin powder.

This salad looks very elegant and easy to serve anyone, prefect for a party menu too, a wonderful way to tempt anyone to enjoy the goodness of fresh vegetables. Hope you guys will definitely love serving your salad this way, i seriously enjoyed mine.I served this colourful vegetable trifle with French bread baguette slices as a single serving. Today's post is for this blogging marathon and the theme of this week's blogging marathon is Soups and Salads with sides.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#38 . 

Cauliflower and Black Olive Salad

Salad are seriously very easy to prepare, just throw into a bowl watever veggies or fruits you can find in your fridge and make a simple dressing, just drizzle the dressing and enjoy this healthy food. Salad are one of my favourite food which i never fail to make quite often whenever i feel bored to cook or i feel lazy to cook.Today's salad is one of the easiest salad i have prepared till now, just some cauliflower florets and chopped black olive slices makes this black and white salad. Today's post is for this blogging marathon and the theme of this week's blogging marathon is Soups and Salads with sides.

I had this salad for my lunch few days back with rusk type bread slices, the crunchiness of the partially cooked cauliflower and the fantastic chunky black olives makes a beautiful pair. Seriously i loved this easy peasy salad, you doesnt even need any specific dressing to spice up this salad. Just salt and pepper powder with some dried herbs and a tablespoon of olive oil is enough to spice up this crunchy salad.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#38 . 

Cantaloupe Melon & Walnut Salad

Fruits and nuts in salad makes a wonderful dessert after a heavy lunch or dinner. This simple and quick salad gets ready seriously very less time and you can mix and match the fruits and nuts for making this easy breezy salad. Its peak summer here,summer fruits like melons and berries are very cheaper in most of the farmer's market . We never fail to get them and my daughter is an expert in making simple fruit salad. This salad is one of her creation and we loved it.She loves to add sugar pearls if she makes salad, the addition of sugar pearls makes the difference definitely.