 Welcome to the Healthy Cooking 101. Today I'm here with my sister, Diana, and my name is Sharon, and we shall be taking you through some healthy and delicious salads. So, Diana, would you like to pray for us? Yes, please. Let's pray. Most gracious of any father, we thank you for another opportunity to be able to share some nutritious recipes, and I pray when as we begin that the Holy Spirit may guide and lead us in Jesus' name of prayed and believed amen. Amen. So, Diana, I think you should start us off. What do you have for us today? Today we'll be making what I want to call a revamped salsa, but to the basil dressing, and you'll see why I'm calling it a revamped salsa, because the ingredients are what you'll normally use in a salsa, or as we can just like to call kachumbari, right? So, and I'll introduce my ingredients today. We have avocado, which is always bay in every ingredient. That means before any other. And we also have cucumber. We have tomatoes. We have white onions. You can also use red onions, whatever it calls your fancy. We have basil, which is for the dressing. We have milk, and this is plant-based milk. We have lime and nut lemons, and this is really good because it just lifts up the meal. And we have salt, again, which is our flavor balancer for ingredients. So, before I mix everything up, because this is going to be really quick and fun and easy, I will start with the dressing. So Sharon, do you like basil? I love basil. I think many people just know dhania as our only hub. We have so many other hubs that really revamp dishes. I like basil because you can use it raw. Exactly. So, because like now for the salad, we're going to use it raw. I find it a way of also sneaking in some greens because I have a small child. So, even for pasta or spaghetti, when you're making it, you just blend it and then just add it in and it just transforms the dish and it also has a really, really good smell. Yeah, this fragrance is really good. So, I've put my basil, which is like half a cup. I've put like a quarter cup less of my plant-based milk and I'm using soy. And then I have lime here with me and probably put like two tablespoons to begin with as we taste. And then I'll put like two pinches of salt too. Not two big pinches. Yeah. So, I will, as you can see, I put the ingredients upside down because I want the milk to be at the bottom to enable my blending to be easier. Great. So, let's get blending. Mixed up. And take it back. Okay, and that's done. Could you pass me some kitchen towels, Sharon? Sure. I see my blender has a bit of a leak. Thank you. So, I'll just remove that. Now, wipe my blender where it has leaked. So, my dressing is ready. Mm-hmm. I'm trying to smell it. Really? Yes, that is a smell. Really good. Yeah. And we'll begin to assemble our quick revamped kachubari with basil dressing. So, I'll begin with my cucumbers, which is like maybe two cucumbers and we've cut off the skins and we've allowed them to be able to be in, as you can see, triangle shape. You can do them in whatever shape you like. And then we've used tomatoes. This is probably one and a half tomatoes or two. Again, finely small diced because you want all your ingredients to look nice. We eat with our eyes. Oh, sorry. Next, we have our onions, which is, again, our white onion salad onions, which is really good. And I'll mix this up first. Salads are really good, Sharon. Why do you like salads? Because they taste really nice. I feel like it's the best way to get the taste of something because it's raw. Yes. And also, I find them very filling and it's just a natural taste. It's the one thing you can make without having to add any spices. Yeah. And it's quick and easy. Yeah. I like salads because they keep you fuller for longer and they're good for your waistline, ladies. Yeah, so please. The more salad you have, the more, I mean, clearer skin. I'm adding avocado now, as you've seen. I'll just put, like, this is one avocado. So I'll mix that up. Don't worry about mashing it. It's part of the whole up. Yeah. We're not looking for cubed or it just binds everything else together. Also, something I think we need to mention there now. Yeah. I've just remembered because of the basil. The reason we use lime is because it has a different taste from lemon. Yes. So many times if you do want to substitute lime for lemon or lemon for lime, just know that the taste won't be the same. But lime and basil go really, really well. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to put my dressing now and I'll start with a little bit. Now mix that up. You don't have to use the whole of it. You just, you put and then you mix and then you decide how much you have. Yeah. And if you want the dressing to last longer, you may want to add a little bit of oil. You can put in vegetable oil, sesame oil, olive oil, just something so that it can be able to last longer in the fridge. Yeah. It also helps with milk prep so that then you don't have to keep on doing dressings every time you're doing a salad. Yeah. But today I was just oil free, right? Yes. Could I have a kitchen towel? I think my salad is ready. Okay. Thank you. So I'm just going, I'm going to wipe my bowl because this is where I will serve my salad and that's a good thing. You know, when you make salads, make it in the bowl that you're going to serve it in so that you don't have a lot of dishes. Yeah. All that can be so annoying. Yeah. Especially when you want something quick and easy. And that's it. Really focusing on salads. They have the best raw ingredients. Yeah. And nutrients for our bodies. So for my salad, I have cucumber as well. So I'm just going to put it in. I have peppers. This is really good. Many people think you can't eat peppers raw, but they're actually sweet when they're raw. People think that maybe they're not too sweet, but they are sweet. It adds color. Yeah, it adds color. Yeah. And remember, we keep saying we are eating with our eyes. So there's red and yellow. You can put it green if you want, but you have to make sure it's the sweet green ones. Yeah. And then we're going to have a little twist. We're going to add some pineapple. I think there's pineapples all over lately. Yeah. So get some sweet, nice pineapple. Yeah. To just add some depth and also sweetness to your salad. Yeah. And then some lettuce. I'm just putting a bit at a time. Just to see. And then I'll just mix it up first. And one ingredient that really goes well with pineapples is mint. Is mint, yeah. So you can easily add mint to this. Just some small diced nice mint leaves will again lift up because mint and pineapple is again such a good combination. Yeah. So we'll do, maybe I should just add a little bit more lettuce. And why did you pick this lettuce, Sharon? There are many different types of lettuce. Why do you like this? Because first, this one doesn't wilt as easily as the other one. I think that, I can remember the other one is called. Ice bug. Ice bug, yes. Ice bug. This one is, I think, romaine. It doesn't wilt as much. I find the leaves also look very nice and they, it actually tastes better. And some people think, just because it looks a little nicer than the ice bug, it's more expensive, but they're actually the same price. Exactly. Yeah. So that's why, yeah. So usually what we would put in is just lemon and salt. And you can put, yeah, you can put in cayenne pepper if you want some little pepper. Some heat to it. Yeah, some heat. You can put in honey, you can put in mustard. Just play around with your dressings. And make them fun and different because you don't want them to be bored. Yeah. So this is just some lemon and I've put in some salt and that's it. That's what you mix in. Yeah. How do you get your son to eat vegetable salad? What does he like in his salad? Olives. Olives. Olives. Any color of olives, he's just on that. Olives and sweet corn, which means you cannot put in some sweet corn here. And pineapples, really, he would just pick out everything. Also how I get him to eat salads, we eat them. So he, yeah, we eat them together, we eat as a family. And then he just, at first he'd pick up from our plates, but then now he just has his own and he enjoys it. Yeah, so see what the kids like and you can add that on to your salads as we Sharon's son likes olives. Yeah. Do that in as long as you're getting them to eat. Yeah, to eat raw. Not forcing them to eat something that doesn't taste or look nice. Also for children, I know Diana likes cutting all her salad ingredients into the same shape. Now, because I don't, I realized that my son enjoys eating them when they're in different chips. So I will cut the lettuce in strips, I'd cut the cucumber in circles. So he's just enjoying eating. So you can try that with your children, with fruits and with vegetables. If you can cut them into different shapes and sizes, then it makes it more interesting to eat. And also children may not enjoy this because it has no sweetener. Well, this actually just does have because of the pineapple. But if you find it's a salad that doesn't have pineapple or any other fruit, maybe like an orange or an apple, you can put in some honey. That way then it has a bit of sweetness and they may just enjoy with it. If we keep dressing with orange juice. Yes, with orange juice. Yeah. So that's it. And we're done. Yeah. So we'll do a taste test. Let me serve. So you can taste mine, I'll taste yours. No problem, let me serve you on this side. You can share the plate right? Sure. Put some on that side. Okay. Look at that. I know right? It's really good. Okay, bon appetit. Yeah, let's do this. I know you wish like you were here with us. Yeah, I'm trying to have a small bite but the spoon won't let me. The pineapple does something guys. Pineapple is really good. I'll just have another one. Okay, that's really good. Yeah. I could eat this all day but of course I will have starch at some point. Yeah, so you can have a look. Yeah, maybe I can taste my own as well. Just see the difference. Yeah, this is fresh, this is creamy, right? This is crunchy. I know what I made is crunchy and then this one is creamy and the texture is just you know the different textures also just give a different life to the salad. So you can actually even have them together. Exactly. Yeah. Thank you guys. So that's all we have for now and we shall see you another time. Bye bye, enjoy. Bye. We should eat again right? Yeah, this is really good.