August 12, 2020

BLACK N’ BLUE GRILLED STEAK SALAD

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Black And Blue Salad recipe is full of flavors and healthy as well. Fresh salad enhance the flavor of this recipe and silvered cut almonds increase the nutrition facts in this salad. Thus Black And Blue Salad is a healthy recipe having springy, fancy feel. Indeed this salad is best to serve in parties as starters. It can be served in baby shower and bridal showers as well served in lettuce cups. Its best for lunch as meal too. Briefly Black And Blue Salad is low in carbs and proteins friendly.

Black And Blue Salad is easy and also quick recipe having many nutrition facts too. All you need is fresh and healthy vegetables and prepare steaks chicken and mix all the ingredients and your dish is ready to serve. Vegetables are necessary for human body because they increase immunity in human body. This salad is healthy and good for the people who are on diet. You must try this healthy salad recipe.

A salad day keeps aging and diseases away

Besides of salad’s good taste and crunchy texture along with its fresh green color that gives comfort to eyes and its soothing fragrance, eating healthy and fresh vegetables daily have a lot of benefits. It helps in fighting with diseases while making your immune system stronger. It will gives strength to your muscles as well. Its very easy task to make salad if you have some ingredients.

Why you should have Black And Blue Salad

This salad is natural source of fiber and fiber helps to control the blood sugar and above all its helps in preventing bowel diseases and normalizes bowel moments. Black And Blue Salad helps in preventing lower blood pressure and reduce risk of heart diseases.

It also increase the lower risk of eye and digestion problems. Black And Blue Salad helps in controlling your weight. So if want to do diet this salad is very useful.

This is very useful in building up healthy bones. The green vegetables in salad helps eyes to maintain their vision and protect them from formation of damaging. It helps in improving human muscles improvement. The fiber in vegetables helps in improving heart rate and it will protect your heart.

Eating salad on regular basis helps in improving your skin tone. Vegetables contains water that helps in improving the skin tone and makes your face fresh and shiny.

How To Cook Black And Blue Salad

Pre heat the oven at temperature of 450 degree F. Cut the bread into fine pieces and place them in a large bowl. Drizzle the bread pieces with some olive oil and toss it to coat the oil with bread. Sprinkle it with some Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Arrange this bread in single layer on baking tray and place it in the baking oven. Bake it for about 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer the brown bread in the plate and place it aside to let it cool.

While croutons are baking you can make the blue dressing sauce. It is preferred to make your own dressing sauce instead of using market based dressing sauce. As it will reduce the nutrients of salad. Take a food processor or a juicer and combine together mayo, Greek yogurt, Worcestershire sauce, salt, black pepper, vinegar, and milk in it. Pulse all the ingredients well in the juicer or blender until it becomes smooth. Add half of the blue cheese in it and pulse again to make it smooth mixture. Transfer the mixture in the bowl and add the remaining crumbles of blue cheese in it. Cover and place it in refrigerate until it becomes cool and ready for use.

Pre heat the grill to medium heat Sprinkle the meat/chicken steaks with salt, pepper and the steaks seasoning. Place these steaks over grill and cook one side for about 7-8 minutes. Turn the side and cook from other side for more 6-7 minutes. If the fillets are thick than cook until steaks become soft tender. Allow the steaks to become cool on the cutting board and than cut it in fine pieces.

Arrange the salad with the lettuce at the bottom. Top it with steak, avocados, red onions, tomatoes, croutons, blue cheese crumbles, and blue cheese dressing. Serve the salad with your favorite sides.

Salad Mistakes To Avoid

The health benefits of adding salad in your diet can be counteract by adding different kind of processed sauces and by adding commercially produced additives. If you use salad dressings in your salad than it will reduce the basic nutrition’s as these dressing sauce includes high fructose corn syrup. An essive use of fructose in diet can drives insulin resistance which is not good for diabetic parents so try to make your own dressing sauce with basic oil, herbs and lemon.

Another big mistake which people mostly do is adding processed vegetables in salad. By preserving vegetables, the basic nutrition’s in them are lost.

Serving Tips

There are a lot of methods to serve this Black And Blue Salad. Try to avoid dressing sauces as the contain high fructose corn syrup which is not good for diabetic patients. You can use this Black And Blue Salad with

On lettuce as salad
With bread
On slice Apples
With sausages
In lettuce cups
With fish crackers
On sliced croissants
With beacon

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Black And Blue Salad

Ingredients

4 8-ounce steaks
1-2 tablespoons Steak Seasoning
6-8 cups lettuce (chopped Properly)
1/4 red onion (finely sliced into pieces)
2 avocados (finely sliced into pieces)
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes (divided into 2 halves)
1/3 cup blue cheese crumbles

Croutons

2 slices Texas toast style white bread
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder

Blue Cheese Dressing

1 cup mayo
1/4 cup Greek yogurt
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Salt according to taste
Black pepper according to taste
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup milk)
4 ounces blue cheese

Directions

1- Pre heat the oven at temperature of 450 f=degree F. Cut the bread into fine pieces and place them in a large bowl. Drizzle the bread pieces with some olive oil and toss it to coat the oil with bread. Sprinkle it with some Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Arrange this bread in single layer on baking tray and place it in the baking oven. Bake it for about 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer the brown bread in the plate and place it aside to let it cool.

2- While croutons are baking you can make the blue dressing sauce. It is preferred to make your own dressing sauce instead of using market based dressing sauce. As it will reduce the nutrients of salad. Take a food processor or a juicer and combine together mayo, Greek yogurt, Worcestershire sauce, salt, black pepper, vinegar, and milk in it. Pulse all the ingredients well in the juicer or blender until it becomes smooth. Add half of the blue cheese in it and pulse again to make it smooth mixture. Transfer the mixture in the bowl and add the remaining crumbles of blue cheese in it. Cover and place it in refrigerate until it becomes cool and ready for use.

3- Pre heat the grill to medium heat Sprinkle the meat/chicken steaks with salt, pepper and the steaks seasoning. Place these steaks over grill and cook one side for about 7-8 minutes. Turn the side and cook from other side for more 6-7 minutes. If the fillets are thick than cook until steaks become soft tender. Allow the steaks to become cool on the cutting board and than cut it in fine pieces.

4- Arrange the salad with the lettuce at the bottom. Top it with steak, avocados, red onions, tomatoes, croutons, blue cheese crumbles, and blue cheese dressing. Serve the salad with your favorite sides.

Tips/Notes

You can reirrigate this salad for 1-2 days in a proper container.
Do not use preserve vegetables because the lose their nutrition.
Try to avoid dressing sauces as the contain high fructose corn syrup which is not good for diabetic patients.
You can use dried tarragons as well but fresh tarragons are prefer for healthy salad.