Fruity Salad - with Apple, Fig, Walnut and Honey

As you guys know, salads are one among my latest research dishes and most of them were veggie/meat bowls, I discovered as the main course for lunch. I came to know from my friends that they loved those recipes and was a big hit at their homes.Coming into the factor that salad being the main course, it may feel a little awkward first time, but you don't know a salad can be so satisfying, filling and healthy alternative to many other main courses. So if you are on a diet and your appetite is more, grab a salad bowl which can help you keeping full for a longer time.

So coming back to this recipe, this was my trial for a fruity bowl, which of course is not my main course, but an appetite breaker and if you feel to just munch over, and not to add more calories.

Apple is really a fat burner as many of you know, so I made it the base or the critical guy for this mission, and of course, fig is such a fruit well known for it nutrition and the soft supple fruit is really good to bite over in the salad. To add a crunchiness, I had another well known nut, yeah the brain nut, which is the brain food- Walnuts! And finally, who would say "No" to a generous drizzle of some sweetness around, Honey the King of sweeteners and I cannot forget this citrus queen, Orange in this mission :)

Now its time to go to the recipe, and stop my boring literature. Here it goes.

Ingredients:

Apple - 1
Fresh Fig - 4
Walnut - 7 to 8
Honey - 2 tsp
Orange juice - of a half

Method:

I don't the method is required here. Just slice everything and mix them. Drizzle the orange juice at the time of serving. Yummy fruity salad is ready!

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