We’ve all heard that salads are good for you, but the truth is, they can get pretty boring. What you need is to up your salad game and infuse it with herbal vitality! Not only will these seven tricks make your salads more interesting and enjoyable to eat, they’ll give you a boost of herbs and spices that support your health, naturally.
#1 Use the Best Homemade Salad Dressing
After experimenting with hundreds of salad recipes, I am going to go out on a limb and say, I think I’ve figured out the best salad dressing ever. Seriously, a friend was over for dinner and asked if she could drink this raspberry rose vinaigrette!
Get the recipe: Raspberry Rose Salad Dressing
#2 Sprinkle On This Salad Topper
Besides adding flavor and crunch to your salad, this sprinkle enhances your digestion. This is such an easy, yummy recipe to up your salad game and support your gut. Whenever I make this, people just cannot resist it. We keep it in a little bowl on the table, but it doesn’t last long!
Get the recipe: Yum Yum Salad Sprinkle
#3 Infuse Your Olive Oil With Herbs
Do you use olive oil in your salads? Increase your daily dose of herbal medicine by getting some anti-inflammatory herbs into your oil! This Alchemy Oil recipe is such a simple way to enrich the taste and health factor of your salads.
Get the recipe: Culinary Oil for Everyday Healthl
#4 Make Your Own Herbal Salad Dressing
Store-bought salad dressings are junk. Making your own salad dressing is one of the best and easiest health hacks out there. Use this recipe to make salad dressing with any herbs you like and have on hand, from sage to basil, thyme, chives, oregano, and more.
Get the recipe: Basic Herbal Salad Dressing
#5 Diversify Your Greens
Dandelion leaf is a mineral-rich, bitter tonic that is one of the best herbs to munch on in salads. Besides being one of the most nutrient-dense greens that nature has to offer, the bitterness of dandelion aids digestion. Try adding a few minced dandelion leaves to up your salad game.
Get the recipe: Why Should You Eat Dandelion Greens?
#6 Add a Drizzle of Chive Vinegar
This vinegar is quick to whip up, adds extra flavor, and will support your health. It features chives, which are an excellent source of vitamin C and are rich in antioxidants which work to protect our cells from the damage done by free radicals.
Get the recipe: Drizzle Vinegar
#7 Garnish With Spicy Flowers
Edible flowers are beautiful but many of them don’t have a lot of flavor. I like to use edible flowers that have a little spicy kick to them. Not only are they beautiful, but they add a good dollop of flavor to our meals. Check out my favorite spicy flowers…
Get the recipe: Six Spicy Edible Flowers
Take the Next Step
Are you ready to infuse your meals with healing herbs and spices? Check out my video-packed online course, My Herbal Kitchen. You’ll learn how to build an incredible herbal pantry stocked with simple, premade herbal condiments that make it easy—and fast—to drizzle, sprinkle, shake, and stir healing herbs into every meal.
I would love to hear from you! Do you have any tips and tricks to herbify your kitchen and up your salad game? Please share in the comments below.
