NUTRITION
Get ready to revolutionise your summer salad repertoire with these four highly nutritious recipes, ideal for the training trier…
Is it possible to transform what many of us dismiss as ‘rabbit food’ into functional, refreshing and delicious triathlete-friendly salads? Absolutely!
In my opinion, as long as it’s chilled and has a dressing, then it’s a salad. With these four ‘super’ salads I’ve combined fruit and veg with pulses, grains, meat, fish or cheese, providing balance and packing in the nutrients. Eating a variety of raw fruit and veg can hugely contribute to your diet as a triathlete: you’ll feel fuller for longer and it’ll hydrate you better due to its high water content.
Once you’ve made these four recipes try inventing your own combos. Just remember, the secret’s in the dressing!
For an evening/lunchtime protein boost, try this amazing Tex Mex chicken salad. A Mexican combo of crisp salad vegetables, chicken, black beans, corn and cheese, it’s loaded with great quality protein, vitamins and minerals, and rounded off with a refreshing, zingy dressing.
Next up, a salad with a nutritional punch. An all-time Go Faster favourite for those who like a little heat is my Thai mango salad, packed with fibre, vitamins A, C and E, B vitamins and potassium. Mix in prawns, roast duck or chicken to up the protein if you like. Delicious!
My Quinoa and halloumi salad is perfect for those who need to go straight to work after a morning swim. Make the night before and transfer to a Tupperware box. The flavours will infuse overnight to create the ultimate protein-packed power salad to help those tired muscles recover.
Finally, this fast, fresh and fabulously light Watermelon and feta salad. Containing 97% water, it’s also rich in natural sugars, potassium and vitamin C. Combined with salty feta cheese, this salad provides almost 900mg sodium and 560mg potassium, as well as calcium and magnesium and a healthy portion of protein. Perfect for effective post-exercise rehydration and recovery.