Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lettuce salad with miso dressing. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lettuce Salad With Miso Dressing is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lettuce Salad With Miso Dressing is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lettuce salad with miso dressing using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lettuce Salad With Miso Dressing:
- Prepare 120 g Red / Green Leaf Lettuce *OR other lettuce of your choice
- Make ready 120 g Fish, Seafood OR ‘Surimi’ Products, e.g. Chikuwa (Fish Sausage) or Kamaboko (Fish Cake)
- Make ready *Note: Today I used 1 can (120g) Mackerel in brine
- Make ready <Miso Dressing>
- Get 1 tablespoon White Miso *alter the amount depending on the saltiness
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon Sugar
- Take 1/2 tablespoon Rice Vinegar
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon Mustard *Japanese Mustard if possible
Steps to make Lettuce Salad With Miso Dressing:
- Cut OR tear Lettuce into bite-size pieces, place in a large bowl, add 1 pinch Salt and massage, then set aside for 10 minutes. Squeeze to remove liquid. This process is unnecessary if you use common lettuce.
- In a large bowl, combine White Miso, Sugar, Rice Vinegar and Mustard until smooth. Add Lettuce and mix well, or massage well with your hand. Add Fish OR additional ingredient of your choice, and combine.
- Below is a same salad, but made with Iceberg Lettuce and Mussels cooked in Sake (Rice Wine).
Turn to Food to Elevate Your Mood
Most of us have been trained to think that comfort foods are bad and to be avoided. Sometimes, if the comfort food is a sugary food or some other junk food, this is true. Other times, though, comfort foods can be totally nourishing and it’s good for you to eat them. There are a number of foods that, when you eat them, may boost your mood. When you are feeling a little down and are needing an emotional pick-me-up, test out some of these.
Eggs, you may be surprised to discover, are terrific at combating depression. Just make sure that you do not toss the egg yolk. Whenever you wish to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most crucial part of the egg. Eggs, the yolk especially, are high in B vitamins. B vitamins can be terrific for lifting up your mood. This is because the B vitamins help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that affect your mood–function better. Try eating some eggs to jolly up!
Put together several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Your mood can be elevated by eating peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc. This is because these foods are loaded with magnesium, which helps to boost serotonin production. Serotonin is a feel-good substance that dictates to the brain how to feel at any given moment. The more you have of it, the more pleasant you will feel. Nuts, in addition to elevating your mood, can be a super protein source.
Cold water fish are great if you wish to feel happier. Cold water fish such as tuna, trout and wild salmon are chock full of DHA and omega-3 fatty acids. These are two things that truly help the grey matter in your brain run a lot better. It’s true: consuming a tuna fish sandwich can really help you overcome depression.
Some grains are actually excellent for driving away bad moods. Quinoa, barley, teff, millet, etc are all good for helping you feel happier. They can help you feel full for longer as well, which can help your mood too. Feeling starved can truly make you feel terrible! The reason these grains are so great for your mood is that they are not hard for your stomach to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps kick start a rise in your blood sugar which in turn takes your mood to a happier place.
Your mood can actually be helped by green tea. You just knew green tea had to be in this article somewhere, right? Green tea has a lot of an amino acid called L-theanine. Studies have found that this amino acid actually stimulates brain waves. This helps raise your mental acuity while relaxing the rest of your body. You probably already knew how easy it is to get healthy when you drink green tea. Now you are well aware that green tea helps you to lift your moods also!
Now you know that junk food isn’t necessarily what you have to eat when you wish to help your moods get better. Try some of these suggestions instead.
