Tweak Your Salads with a Dash of Spices

Swapping fried fare with salads and some greens is the first step towards a healthier leaner self. However, a major obstacle in making this essential swop is the insipidity and well, lack of variety. While salad will still be a salad, we can surely spruce it up for you to give the much needed push. Here are 6 interesting and healthy Indian salad dressings that will add flavour to the blandest of veggies.

Ranch Dressing

Take a cup of buttermilk and add to it ¼ cup low-fat shredded paneer, some dried onion flakes, salt, lemon juice and pepper. Store it in an airtight container and refrigerate.

Vinaigrette with a twist

Buy the healthier variants by one of the best food services India and play around with its flavours every time you use it. A few ideas can be to add a few drops of orange juice, or apple juice or even vanilla essence. You can also put some grated lemon rind and a few drops of lime juice for a tang or simply whip it up with a table spoon of yoghurt before adding it to the salad.

Spicy Indian Salad dressing

Take a quarter cup of lemon juice and add to it some tomato puree, red chili powder, some tabasco sauce, cilantro leaves, salt and ½ tsp jaggery dissolved in water. Shake them well and its ready.

Thai salad dressing

Take some peanut butter and add a little boiling water to it. Sprinkle in some apple cider vinegar, a dash of honey, salt to taste. Now spice it up with minced garlic cloves and crushed and roasted red pepper.

Curry Dressing

Roast some curry powder dry in a skillet and then cool it. Add a bit of light mayo, yogurt, mango chutney, minced ginger and grated orange peel and whisk properly. You can store this for a while so make for the weeks ahead.

Having a Frequent Snack-Time!

The in-between snacks that are most widely known reasons and explanations that your waistline is increasing, is now the sham-fact. Owing to the recent studies, nutritionists now vouch for the small portion or rather the snack-y diet i.e. baked potato chips and other healthier options than the heavy meals that you consume thrice a day. The between meals, says a renowned nutritionists takes good care of your metabolism along with putting a full spot to your frequent hunger pangs. 

Physiologists while putting forth a reason to this intermittent eating habit explain that whenever an individual suppresses his in-between feeling of hunger, they end up sending an emergency stimulus to the brain. The brain then treats this suppressed hunger as a sign of famine and slackens your metabolism rate which then totally defeats the purpose of dieting which is that of losing weight.

In this light people that are especially on diet should reconsider their diet plan and accommodate few snack breaks like having homemade healthy potato chips in their diet. But the hack here is to be extra careful about what you kind of snack you plan to infuse in your diet plan. It is also next to fooling yourself when you frequently skip your meals which are supposed to look after your nutritional needs with some snacks that are high in calorie. Remember that checking the calories in your diet is the basic principle behind going on a diet. 

Now the next tip is to deal with the blood sugar levels that can be accentuated or controlled with an appropriate meal. It is imperative that there aren’t any frequent changes in these levels or else your health suffers making your diet a fail. 

Make note that indulging yourself in snack frenzy is not a solution either. Going all mad about the candies and chocolates is in fact worse than being fond of baked potato chips. Ensure that you aren’t hungry for long but pushing yourself in a serious type of eating disorder is not a solution either.