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Low Carb Quick and Easy Veggie Salad
Toss together this super easy quick and easy veggie salad. A healthy salad like this is amazingly filling and nutritious!
Create a crunchy, colorful veggie salad with bell peppers, cucumber, tomato, onion, carrot, and dill. Then toss all together with a simple and light vinaigrette.
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Clean Eating Made Easy With A Veggie Bowl!
I have been thinking about this salad for quite some time now, and never got around to posting it. So here it is, a clean eating veggie salad bowl. I love the colors and the simplicity of this recipe, and that it gives your body vitamins and nutrition.
Have you tried clean eating? The clean eating lifestyle is a great way to avoid processed foods and get well-rounded meals filled with protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Recipes like this clean eating salad make it easier to eat fresh produce at home, especially with plant based recipes. It helps that this salad recipe is gluten free, too!
Benefits of Bell Peppers, Red Onion, and Cucumber
If you enjoy bell peppers, you’ll be glad to know they are immune system boosting. Also, they promote healthy and shiny skin and hair. As for the red onion, it regulates sugar levels. As a result, this can lower your chance of getting type 2 diabetes.
Don’t forget about cucumbers. They flush out toxins out of the body and hydrate. Yum!
Key Ingredients
All these veggie ingredients are well known and easy to find at the grocery store. They also have a ton of benefits!
Red, yellow, green, and orange bell pepper are all low in calories and provide your body with vitamins C and A.
English cucumbers are filled with vitamins B and C, as well as vitamin K.
Cherry tomatoes have lycopene, which fights free radicals in the body, helping to prevent disease.
Red onions have quercetin, an antioxidant which can reduce inflammation.
Carrots fill you with beta carotene, which can lower your diabetes risk.
Fresh dill contains vitamin A, which supports your immune system.
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
How to make Clean Eating Veggie Salad
Step 1: Prep the bell peppers
Thinly slice the yellow, green, orange, and red bell peppers.
Step 2: Slice cucumber and onion
Slice cucumber and red onion.
Step 3: Prep the tomatoes
Slice the cherry tomatoes into halves.
Step 4: Prep dill and carrots
Chop the fresh dill and grate the carrot.
Step 5: Mix and enjoy
When ready to serve, mix vegetables with rice vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, salt (or to taste), and a pinch of ground black pepper.
Expert Tips:
- Sprinkle herbs for extra flavor. Fresh parsley, cilantro, or basil add a fresh touch to any salad. Top with finely chopped green onions for a great garnish.
- Make a large bowl of this salad for a family BBQ or summer gathering.
- Serve this tasty salad alongside quinoa or brown rice for a balanced meal.
- When mixing the salad dressing, feel free to add lemon juice for a light citrus touch.
- This salad makes a great summer salad, when fresh vegetables are in season.
- Make a big salad bowl and use this recipe for work lunch: store the dressing separately and mix when ready to enjoy! Pair with rice and grilled chicken.
Recipe FAQs
Keep the leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 2 days. Store the homemade dressing separately from the veggies and combine when you’re ready to enjoy this salad again!
Yes! Pair these textured veggies with spring greens, fresh romaine lettuce, shredded cabbage, or kale.
Absolutely! Grilled chicken, chickpeas, tofu, or hard-boiled eggs make great additions.
Yes! Store the ingredients separately and assemble before serving for maximum freshness.
Other low-carb recipes to add to your meal plan next week:
- Easy and Simple Crab Salad Appetizer Snack is a great salad that’s super easy to make.
- You can make a Low-Calorie Caesar Salad With Caesar Dressing at home. Make this homemade dressing with on-hand ingredients!
- Make Easy Mashed and Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts as one of the best side dishes on the dinner table!
More recipes with red pepper
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Low Carb Quick and Easy Veggie Salad
Equipment
- grater
- whisk
- bowl
Ingredients
- ½ red bell pepper, thinly sliced
- ½ yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced
- ½ green bell pepper, thinly sliced
- ½ orange bell pepper, thinly sliced
- ½ red onion, sliced
- ½ English cucumber, sliced
- 10 cherry tomatoes, chopped in half
- 1 large carrot, grated
- 1 stem fresh dill, chopped
Dressing
- 1 Tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Thinly slice the yellow, green, orange, and red bell peppers.½ red bell pepper,, ½ yellow bell pepper,, ½ green bell pepper,, ½ orange bell pepper,
- Slice cucumber and red onion.½ English cucumber,, ½ red onion,
- Slice the cherry tomatoes into halves.10 cherry tomatoes,
- Chop the fresh dill and grate the carrot.1 stem fresh dill,, 1 large carrot,
- When ready to serve, mix vegetables with rice vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, salt (or to taste), and a pinch of ground black pepper.1 Tbsp rice vinegar, 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 1 tsp salt, ground black pepper,
