Two Salad Recipes

Gourmet food meal may range from meat recipes to vegetarian recipes, from salads to seafood recipes. However, the unifying theme of all gourmet meals is presentation. A gourmet meal may have simple ingredients, but its artful presentation makes it a gourmet meal. Hence, a gourmet salad may simply be composed of assorted vegetables with only sprinkle of oil but it is still can be considered gourmet when presented in artful way. Salad recipe is perhaps the easiest recipe to prepare. Most salad recipes do not even involve cooking, but simply mixing all the ingredients.

Here are two examples of salad recipes you may want to try. These recipes simply involve mixing all the ingredients.

(1.) In preparing Autumn Apple Salad, you will need the following ingredients:

tart green apples, cored and chopped
1/4 cup blanched slivered almonds, toasted
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup chopped dried cherries
1 (8 ounce) container vanilla yogurt

Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl.

(2.) In preparing Quick Fruit Salad, you will need the following ingredients:

1 apple, cored and chopped
1 large orange, peeled, sectioned, and cut into bite-size
1/2 cup seedless grapes
1 nectarine, pitted and chopped
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
6 tablespoons plain low-fat yogurt

Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. Refrigerate the mixture.