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Healthy Easy Salad Recipe| Cucumber Salad Recipe | FlavourDiary

Hi friends, today's recipe is best in diet. This is quite easy to make and very filling. This salad is very refreshing and coolant to your body. This salad needs very few ingredients and tastes great and filling.

I love salads and You may also find other salad recipe in this blog; I have shared summer berry salad, ABC salad, Russian salad and many more.

Click on the video below for the making of the cucumber salad.

Level: easy
Total time: 10mins

serves:1-2

1 cup:250 ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon:5ml

Ingredients

Cucumber: 2 cups small chunks

Cheery Tomato: 1/2 cup

Red Onion: 1 small

Coriander : 1/4 cup chopped

Lemon: 1/2

Salt to taste

Chilli Flakes to taste

Black Pepper to taste

Olive oil : 1 tBSP

Directions

Chop the veggies.
In a large bowl add all the ingredients and mix well.
Enjoy this as lunch or dinner or as aside dish.

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Avocado Black Bean Cucumber Salad recipe

Today's recipe is ABC Salad, a salad which is creamy and full of proteins and completely vegan and dairy free. After my ABC soup i was eager to try on some ABC recipe with different ingredients and now here is my ABC salad which is a combo of Avocado, Black Beans and Cucumber...Check out detail ingredients and direction to make an easy peasy salad which is colorful, yummy and healthy....
Few Facts about Black Beans (reference from here)

The iron, phosphorous, calcium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and zinc in black beans all contribute to building and maintaining bone structure and strength.
Black beans contain quercetin and saponins which can protect the heart
Because of their fiber content, black beans help to prevent constipation and promote regularity for a healthy digestive tract.
Selenium is a mineral that is not present in most fruits and vegetables but can be found in black beans. It plays a role in liver enzyme function and helps detoxify some cancer-causing compounds in the body.

Black Beans

Level: easy
total time: 15 min

Serves:2-3

1 cup:250 ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon:5ml

Ingredients

Avocado Chopped : 1 cup (1 big avocado)
Black Bean canned/boiled: 1 Cup( i used canned beans, drained and Washed)
Cucumber Chopped: 1 cup
Corn canned/frozen/fresh: 1/2 cup ( used frozen)
Tomato chopped: 1/2 cup
Chopped Coriander: 2 tablespoons
Onion Chopped: 1 tablespoon
Dressing:
Lime/lemon: 1
Olive /sunflowe oil: 1 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Red Chilli Powder/ Black pepper powder to taste

Directions

Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and then add dressing to taste and enjoy.

Tips

Avocado should be rippen when used.
If you don't find black beans then you can replace it with your choice of beans.

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Cold breeze,rainy days, sunny intervals, Shades of colourful falling leafs and nature surely signs autumn has arrived. Before we have autumn recipes flooded everywhere, i am sharing a recipe using a summer fruit (strawberry).
Today's smoothie is having a goodness of spinach and strawberry...don't worry about spinach, you don't even taste spinach...smoothie has a hint of ginger and sweetness comes from banana and dates, Which makes it more delicious and healthy and filling. You can add yogurt or any fruit juice instead of water and ice cubes...enjoy the taste along with health.

Strawberries are an excellent source of vitamins C and al providing a good dose of fibre, folic acid, manganese and potassium.The vibrant red colour of strawberries is due to large amounts of anthocyanidin, which also means they contain powerful antioxidants and are thought to protect against inflammation, cancer and heart disease.
Here are few Strawberry recipes to show
Chocolate dipped Strawberries
Nutella Strawberry French Toast
Dahi Choora (Indian no cook breakfast)
Spinach has remarkable abilities to restore energy, increase vitality and improve the quality of the blood. Spinach is excellent source of Iron,vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C , folic acid, magnesium, and vitamin B2. Iron plays a central role in the function of red blood cells which help in transporting oxygen around the body, in energy production. Vitamin K is important for maintaining bone health.
Here are few Spinach Recipes here
Oat Spinach Pakoda ( Oats Palak Pakoda)
Palak Moong Dal fry (Spinach with Lentil curry)
Palak Lobia(Spinach Black bean Curry)
Palak Gosht(Spinach and lamb curry)

Level: Easy

Total time: 5 mins
serves: 1

1 cup:250 ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon:5ml

Ingredients

Baby Spinach: 2 handful(approx 2 cups)
Strawberries: 8-9
Banana: 1 medium
Ginger: 1/4 inch
Pitted Dates: 2 (use honey/sugar/any sweetener if required)
Water: 1/2 cup
Ice Cubes: 1/2 cup(replace with water if required)

Directions

Put everything in the blender and blend to smooth and serve with a strawberry.