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The great heat it arrived (yes, well in advance and yes, suddenly!). Ergo, who has the most desire to get in the kitchen? The only meals covered are fresh, light and healthy ones. Like a beautiful one salad. But salads have their own calories too, to be careful of. Because often the mistake we make is not paying attention to what ends up in us, but which then contributes to the increase in calories, without us noticing it.
So which salad has the least calories? The site Golfsupport.com investigated the matter and made a list of the top 50 most popular light dishes in Europeclassifying them according to the nutritional value of each recipe.
To the first place on the podium, there is a Romanian recipe: la salată de roșiia simple tomato salad, which has earned the reputation of «lightest European dish»: solo 36 calories per serving. In this case, in terms of macronutrients, it contains only 0.3 g of fat, 1.7 g of protein and 7.3 g of carbohydrates.
To the second placewe find the salad of Greek origins Horta (53.8 calories), with just 2g of fat, 3.5g of protein and 8.5g of carbohydrates.
Finally, al third placethere is the Spanish rice salad, theEnsalada Sevillanawith 57 calories per serving and with 2 g of fat, 3 g of protein and 8 g of carbohydrates.
By comparing dishes from countries in general, Golfsupport.com found that Greek salads have on average only 123.5 calories per serving. Additionally, the averages of Greek dishes for fat (7.2g), protein (3.5g), and carbohydrate (13.5g) content are all relatively low as well.
There Norway is second, only 8.7 calories from first place with an average of 132.2 calories per dish. The medium dish contains 9.6g of fat, 7.8g of carbohydrates and has the lowest average protein content at just 1.3g.
In third place is the Polandwith an average of 136.1 calories and is placed in the medium-low range for all other nutritional contents: fats (7.7 g), proteins (4.3 g), carbohydrates (14.1 g).
There Huzarensalade claim title with 547 calories. This Dutch potato salad is also distinguished by its higher fat content with 52.2g.
Not far behind is there Italian panzanellaconsisting mainly of bread, with 491.2 calories (7.4 g of fat and 5.3 g of carbohydrates). It also contains a whopping 94.5g of protein – the highest value of all dishes!
Finally, in third place there is also therice saladtypical Italian, with its 484 total calories.
Did you get hungry? And then scroll through the article to the end to find out all the recipes of these delicious dishes. To travel around Europe … on the wings of taste.
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Source: Vanity Fair