Healthy Salad Recipes

Looking for delicious and nutritious salad recipes? At Elevated Food For Life, we’ve got a wide range of healthy salad recipes that are packed with flavour, nutrients, and easy-to-follow instructions. Whether you're after a light lunch, a refreshing side, or a protein-packed meal, our salad recipes are designed to keep you full, energised, and satisfied.

Why Choose Salad?

Here at Elevated Food For Life, all of our healthy salad recipes are crafted by our professional chef in collaboration with our clinical nutritionist. Every dish is designed to be both delicious and nutrient-dense, ensuring you get the best balance of vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients in every bite.

Salads are an essential part of a healthy diet and can be tailored to fit any nutritional need, whether you're looking for high-protein options, gut-friendly ingredients, or low-carb meals.

Rich in Vitamins & Minerals

A great way to boost daily nutrient intake.

Supports Digestion

Fibre-packed ingredients help maintain gut health.

Versatile & Adaptable

Easily customisable with proteins, grains, and fresh vegetables.

Making Salads More Exciting

Our Elevated recipe subscription includes a wide range of salad recipes that go beyond just leafy greens. Every recipe follows our Elevated commandments, ensuring that they are nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory and packed with essential macronutrients. All accompanied by a step-by-step instructional video with professional chef, Jason Shaw and clinical nutritionist, James Ellis.

We also offer Kitchen Skills and articles to help you master the art of salad making from both a nutritional and culinary perspective.

We think salads have been often labeled as boring and the only way to a healthy meal but our salad recipes make healthy eating more exciting.

Fibre is a key component in many of our healthy salad recipes. It helps support digestion, regulate blood sugar, and promote gut health. With the right ingredients, salads can be a high-protein and indulgent meal. Learn how to include lean proteins, plant-based options, and nutrient-dense toppings to make your salads more satisfying.

Kitchen Skills For Salad Recipes

Our range of Elevated Healthy Salad Recipes are supported by step-by-step instructional videos featuring Jason, our professional chef, and recipes backed by James, our clinical nutritionist.

How to zest citrus fruit

Many recipes call for citrus zest as it adds both a tang and nutrition benefits. In this pithy Kitchen Skills video, Jason demonstrates how to properly get that zest from the skins.

How to toast nuts

Nuts are fabulously nutritionally dense: full of protein and good fats, as well as a host of different vitamins and minerals. Learn how to Elevate their flavour by toasting them in this skills video.

Making croutons or crostini

We create healthier croutons by using a slow-fermented sourdough, which is kinder on the gut than regular yeast breads, rub it with garlic and drizzle with olive oil before oven cooking.

How To Dice Onions

Onions are a great addition to many dishes. They add background flavour but also have a number of health-giving properties. Check out how to dice onions like a real chef with this tips video from Jason.

How to chop leafy herbs

We use many herbs as they are so known for their health giving properties. You'll often see oregano, rosemary, thyme, coriander, mint and the like, so this video shows you how to best prepare them.

How to prep avocado

Ever chosen an avocado and it's been too hard, or guacamole-style soft? Or do you struggle to get the stone out? Let James show you how to pick and prep this wonderful fruit in this short skills video.

How to prepare chillies

Here Jason shows how to prep and chop them chillies - a source of many vitamins and minerals including vitamin C, copper and postassium – for inclusion in your Elevated dishes.

How To Finely Chop Parsley

We absolutely adore herbs here at Elevated but we know many people find chopping them from fresh into appropriately sized pieces a bit of a pain as it is quite challenging. It’s why we asked chef Jason to show us how to do it the chef’s way, efficiently and with the minimum of fuss.

Fine slicing cabbage

Here chef Jason shows a really easy and simple way to finely chop cabbage for use in soups and stews. You can apply the same techniques to other green, leafy vegetables such as kale and cavolo nero. Our Kitchen Skills videos help you improve your kitchencraft to become a better cook.

Peeling Kiwi

In this short kitchen skills video, Jason shows you the chef’s way to peel kiwi so you don’t have to scoop it out like a boiled egg. Kiwi is packed with good nutrition via antioxidants and sleep-supporting tryptophan.

How to shell prawns

Prawns are a great, low-calorie source of protein with just 70kcals and 15g of protein in 100g, plus they're rich in B vitamins and some minerals. In this video, Jason shows how to de-shell them before cooking.

How to portion a chicken

A good way to make a chicken go further is to portion it yourself, which is what Jason shows in this skills video. In the clip, Jason dissects a single bird into three different ‘joints’ for serving: breasts, mini fillets, and legs/drumsticks.

Impact of a Nutritious Diet

Here we delve into the remarkable advantages of adopting a nutritious diet for both you and your family. From improved physical health and mental clarity to fostering stronger family dynamics

Components of a Healthy Meal

Eating well is a daily challenge. You have to make it happen, but you can do that with a little anticipation and planning ahead. In this article we talk about the basic components of a healthy meal.

Veggies

What's the difference between a starchy and non-starchy veggie? James takes a look at both and tells us how we should approach these valuable foods.

The Perfect Plate

Want to get your nutrition? Look no further than our Perfect Plate formula which tells you what you need to be on your plate so you get it right, every single time.

Fruit, Vegetables, & Plant-Based Ingredients

Spring onions preparation

Spring onions are loaded with essential nutrients such as vitamins A, C and B2, as well as copper, phosphorus, magnesium and potassium. Learn how to prep them like a pro chef in this quick skills video.

Choosing salad leaves

In this short video, Jason explains what to look for when choosing various types of salad leaf that can be used to build our warm spring salads. In the video, he takes us through a number of different types from cos to wild rocket.

Cleaning and preparing mushrooms

In this skills video, Chef Jason shows the right way to peel and destalk a large mushroom. We do this to stop them becoming rubbery in cooking. Mushrooms have many nutritional benefits, including being a course of betaglucans, a heart-health boosting form of fibre.

How to grind nuts & spices

By grinding your own nuts, seeds and spices you are elevating your cuisine once again. Take your cooking to new levels with this skills video from Jason that uses a selection of different tools.

Learn More

Explore more of the Elevated methodology in our guides and expert advice designed to support your journey toward a more balanced and healthy life.

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