Salad is a side dish that many of us look forward to when we eat a meal. Salads are easy to prepare. All you need is the right ingredients and the right quantity. Always make sure that your salad ingredients are fresh and the dressings are kept simple.
For today’s salad, pineapple is the main ingredient. Pineapple is high in vitamins and low in calories. Pineapple has Vitamin C, A and K. Pineapple can help digestion, and relieve arthritis pain, and it’s a weight loss booster too.
For weight watchers, here is a tasty pineapple salad that you should try! Let’s start now!
Simple Pineapple Salad for Weight Watchers
Ingredients
- 1 cup pineapple sliced (use sweet & fresh pineapple)
- 1 medium onion (slice it vertically)
- 1 medium red tomato (deseed it & cut into 12 slices)
- ½ cucumber (slice into half circles)
- ¼ red or green capsicum (cut into small cubes)
- 2 large lettuce leaves (roughly tear them with your fingers)
- 1 tablespoon coriander leaves (finely chopped)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon roasted cumin powder
Method
- Take a large bowl and put in lettuce leaves, onion, cucumber, tomato, capsicum, lettuce leaves and coriander leaves. Mix all the vegetables well.
- Now add 1 cup of sliced pineapple. Add in lemon juice, salt and roasted cumin powder.
- Give it a good mix and place it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes before serving. Done!
- Enjoy your pineapple salad. You may serve this salad with sandwiches, tomato rice, fried chicken, biryanis, chapati or naan bread.
Final thoughts:
- You can have a salad at any time of the day. Make salads part of your diet.
- This pineapple salad does not contain any oil, it is refreshing and delicious.
- You must use only fresh pineapple, not canned ones.
- Try it today, and you will be amazed by the taste!
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