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Make Salads Exciting with Spanish Flavors

by Patricia Fioriello on December 29, 2009

Make Salads Exciting with Spanish Flavors

Recipes for Spanish food remain incomplete without salads.

Salads are almost indispensable for the recipes for Spanish food, and it adds zing to any ordinary Spanish or other dish. You can add salad to almost any dish starting from breakfast, through lunch, evening savories and also in dinner. In fact, salads themselves make whole dishes and they also come in countless varieties.

You can make Spanish and other salads with the least number of ingredients and with the help of easiest recipes for Spanish food, but salads may also require very elaborate recipes and a lot of ingredients. Whether you make salads at your home or order them from the restaurant, salads can do magic to any delicacy.

The additional benefit that you get from salads is their wholesomeness and healthy nutritious contribution. They are ideal for patients, for those on a low fat, low calorie diet and also for those who cannot digest spicy and rich food. To create magic with salad recipes for Spanish food, you should keep in mind some basic but simple tricks. A good number of websites are there to help you to make even your everyday salad recipes extraordinary and exciting.

Recipes for Spanish food almost always include a centrally placed big platter of green salad or a mixed green salad that contains items you may find surprising and unusual. Salad recipes for Spanish food often contain olives, tuna and white asparagus with tomatoes and onions. Recipes for Spanish salads also have a unique specialty called liquid salads.

Some of the most famous salad dishes include Ensalada Mixta (Mixed Salad), Ensalada de Arroz (Rice and Vegetable Salad), Ensalada de Melon, Chorizo y Alcachofa (Salad of Cantaloupe, Chorizo and Artichoke), Ensaladilla Rusa (Russian Salad), Ensalada de Ahumados (Salad of Smoked Fish, Tomatoes and Asparagus), Ensalada de Pimientos (Roasted Bell Pepper Salad), Ensalada Murciana (Salad of Tomatoes, Tuna, and Egg) and Gazpacho.

Try out any of these and make your every ordinary meal extraordinary and exciting!

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October 28, 2009 by aracelyandpatricia

Ingredients
makes 4 sandwiches
1 eggplant
2 zucchini
1/2 bag spinach
1 Ciabatta bread
1 garlic clove, peeled
olive oil
salt pepper to taste
Instructions
Slice eggplant and zucchini. Season with salt, pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Grill approximately 5 minutes on each side until brown.
Slice Ciabatta bread. Rub garlic on each side.  Toast. Layer with a few spinach leaves, eggplant and [...]