Easy and Healthy Salad – Strawberry and Lemon Salad

Eating right leads to a healthier life. While it’s such a simple idea, it’s not as easy as it sounds. Proper nutrition choices should be the number one motivation for us home cooks.

This healthy recipe is quick, flavorful, and nutritious and can easily be made in 30 minutes or less. Perfect when you come home from a long exhausting day at work and are too exhausted to cook that big meal. This dish can be served as an appetizer or as a dessert. The strawberry and lemon salad is completely refreshing with a balance of flavors that will surprise your palate: bitter, sweet and sour. The rind of the lemon is cut into thin strips and heated in sweet sugar syrup, then used to garnish the sliced ​​strawberries. Lemon sauce is poured on the plate and a sprig of mint is used to garnish and add a fresh flavor. It is also served with scoops of lemon sorbet making it ultra invigorating. Add pieces of Macaroni at the end of the recipe, which has already been prepared previously. You can also buy macaroons from a pastry shop, create your own, or substitute other similar pastries. The starch will contrast with the fruits and give it a dry dimension.

Here is how to make this amazing healthy recipe.

Cooking recipe Preparation time

• Preparation time: 30 minutes

cooking recipe ingredients

• 6 lemons

• 0.55 lbs. strawberries

• 3.5 oz. sugar

• 0.33 lbs. pectin

• 4 balls of lemon sorbet

• 8 pieces of macaroni

Instructions for cooking recipes.

1. Peel the 2 lemons.

2. Dilute the lemon peels. Blanch in cold water and drain.

3. Preserve the lemon skins in a mixture of half water and half sugar.

4. Retrieve the lemon juice.

5. Add 0.33 lbs. sugar. Boil it.

6. Add pectin, boil again and skim (remove mousse).

7. Wash and prepare the strawberries. Cut them into quarters.

8. For presentation, spread the lemon sauce on the serving plate. Place a scoop of lemon sorbet on top and arrange the strawberries around it. Garnish with a few fresh mint leaves and preserved lemon rinds.

This refreshing salad dessert can be paired with a sweet wine such as Vins Doux Naturels de Maury, which is made from Grenache grape varieties. This type of wine is extremely fruity and will complement well with the sweetness of the strawberry, the bitterness of the lemon peels, and the sweet and sour of the lemon sauce. While very simple to prepare, this dish has complex and intricately layered flavors that can be savored leisurely for superior enjoyment.