Most often, fresh vegetables that are not heat-treated are added to a salad with vegetable oil. These are tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, onions or green onions, greens, radishes, cabbage of various types, lettuce leaves, carrots. But many non-mayonnaise lovers also prefer to fill their salads directly with vegetable oil, despite the fact that it is also included in this sauce.
The five most commonly used ingredients in vegetable Oil Salad Recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive oil | 913 | 0 | 99.8 | 0 |
| Cucumbers | 15 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.6 |
| Onion | 41 | 1.4 | 0 | 10.4 |
| Tomatoes | 23 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 3.8 |
| Lemon juice | 16 | 0.9 | 0 | 3 |
How to make salad dressing with vegetable oil more delicious? To do this, the oil must be mixed with vinegar (any, starting from table, apple and ending with balsamic), salt, ground pepper and other dry spices. You can also add other sauces to this dressing, ready-made (such as soy), garlic, various seeds (dill, flax, sesame, and so on).
In different types of Korean salads, vegetable oil heated in a frying pan is added, flavored with a whole set of specific spices characteristic of Korean cuisine. When spices are heated, this contributes to the fact that they better saturate the oil with their aromas and flavors. As a result, any salad, not only from fresh, but also from boiled vegetables, as well as meat, fish and seafood, turns out to be doubly delicious.
Which vegetable oil is good to add to salads? Most people prefer olive oil. But even here, not all its types are good, there is an ideal, namely: unrefined first cold pressed, which is called extra virgin (this must be written on the bottle). It costs more, but the salad with it turns out to be rich, bright, saturated.
The five fastest salad recipes with vegetable oil:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salad Girl is bored | 5 min | 18 | +60 |
| Salad with pears and pine nuts | 5 min | 182 | +170 |
| Iceberg salad with olive oil | 5 min | 81 | +41 |
| Salad with olives and tomatoes with young cabbage | 5 min | 67 | +767 |
| Italian salad | 5 min | 87 | +37 |
Salad can be seasoned with sunflower oil, refined or not. There are fans of its first type - when the oil has a pronounced smell and taste of seeds. In Russia, the majority of the population uses sunflower oil precisely because of its availability and, one might say, genetic habit))
What is the most useful vegetable oil for salad? This is a moderately difficult question, the answer to which will not be unambiguous. At least because the concept of "benefits" is different for everyone. There are only a few types of oil that are useful in different areas and have proven themselves well in salad recipes. These are: pumpkin, flaxseed, corn, sea buckthorn, mustard and soy.