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Definition Of Salad
The salad is a cold dish of various cut, mixed and seasoned vegetables, mainly with salt, vegetable oil, and vinegar.
There are many recipes different from cuisines around the world, so it is a family dishes. Salads usually served as a first course.
But also as a single dish, before or after the main course, and often as a garnish.
The vegetable is usually raw, although, in many recipes, they are cooked, such as in the Russian salad.
The general understood as raw vegan dishes, that is, without animal origin, although there are also many exceptions to this.
Examples Of Salads
the Caesar salad, the spatter, the Caprese salad, the niçoise salad, the Waldorf salad, the seven-layer salad, etc.
Although it is considered a cold dish, there are notable exceptions, such as the German potato salad.
Green Salad
Within the family of salads, there are subfamilies or styles.
The garden salads are the most typical and are made with products from the garden only.
Its main ingredient being some leafy vegetables.
They are, therefore, those vegan salads based on fresh vegetables.
An example of a garden salad is the illustrated salad.
Another variety of salads are whose ingredients finely chopped and amalgamated with a thick sauce, such as mayonnaise.
An example of a salad is the egg salad.
Common Ingredients
It can carry everything: meat, fish, vegetables, cheese, fruit, nuts, cereals, pasta, legumes, etc.
Although vegetables are usually raw, they can also add roasted, cooked, or fried.
The base of many salads is usually a green leafy vegetable such as:
romaine, oak leaf, Chinese cabbage, iceberg, American, etc. lamb’s lettuce, watercress, arugula, etc.
Spinach Or Raw Chard
All vegetables have a place, in addition to the most common ingredients, such as tomato, onion, garlic, and cucumber.
Raw or roasted peppers, celery, radishes, mushrooms, carrots, beets, olives, potatoes, etc. are also often added. Nuts such as walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, or almonds can add.
The cheese of various types (curds, cheddar, mozzarella ) canned fish, especially tuna, but also Melva and mackerel.
The roast chicken, lamb, and cilantro grilled or fried. Products are also added farinaceous like dough in pasta salads.
Common Fruits Are Uses
- Oranges
- Apple, perhaps the most common grain in salad
- Cantaloupe
- Pear
- Pineapple
Types Of Salad
Mixed Salad
This usually refers to the combination of lettuce, tomato, and onion, seasoned with olive oil, white wine vinegar, and salt. It is usually called a mixed salad, which has tuna.
The ingredients usually added without changing the name of the dish, such as chives, cucumbers, or hard-boiled eggs. In Argentina, the mixed salad is just a combination of lettuce, tomato, and onion.
Free-Range
This is a combination of cooked potato, bell pepper, onion, tomato and tuna, and optionally cucumber.
Caesar
It consists of lettuce leaves seasoned with mayonnaise that usually prepared on the table.
Before the diner, in a deep wooden bowl. Mayonnaise prepares with one or two raw egg yolks, garlic, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, anchovy paste, lemon, a touch of sherry.
And various ingredients depending on the place, and it accompanies with slices of fried garlic bread.
Already on the plate, add Parmesan cheese. Then other ingredients have been added, perhaps the most frequent being pieces of fried bacon.
Chinese
This has lettuce, seaweed, and season with rice vinegar.
Cabbage
This is based on cabbage, onion, and carrot, cut into julienne strips, and with white sauce.
Greek
With diced tomato, cucumber, onion, feta cheese, kalamata oil, seasoned with olive oil, and vinegar.
Malaga
This is cooked potato, orange, desalted cod, green olives, olive oil, vinegar, and salt.
Occasionally garnish with very finely chopped parsley.
Mimosa
The Russian holiday salad is similar to mimosa flowers.
Russian Salad (Or Olivier )
It has its origin in a Russian salad. Although with a considerable decrease in ingredient, and consisting cooked and diced potatoes and carrots, Tuna in oil and mayonnaise as primary ingredients.
Afterward and according to local customs, you can bring green peas, olives, and even assorted pickles.
Shopska
Similar to the previous one, but without olives. Typical of Bulgaria and the Balkan countries.
Waldorf
This is made apple, walnuts, celery, and mayonnaise.
Pasta Salad
It is a pasta dish with tomato, lettuce, etc. and seasoned like a salad.
Hummus
It is a chickpea puree with sesame oil, typical of the Arabian peninsula (both in Arab and Jewish cuisine).
Potato
This bears the main ingredients potatoes (potato) diced and plenty of mayonnaise, other condiments such as oil, salt, parsley, and pepper mixed to produce a pleasant, tasty mix.
Magarzillo
It a roasted tomato, red pepper salad, peeled, cut into strips, with tuna and oil (without vinegar), all very cold and decorated with hard-boiled eggs.
Pipirrana
Add tuna in oil or marinade and cooked egg, as well as onion and raw green pepper. Besides Gherkin stuffed olives rarely added.
Tabulé
It comes from the Mediterranean Levante.
It a plate of cooked semolina cold, with finely chopped tomato, cucumber and onion, salt, peppermint, oil, and lemon. In addition to being fresh, it feeds a lot.
Murcian Salad
It comes from the Region of Murcia ( Spain). So it served cold in a large plate or dish that presides over the table.
As an accompaniment, you can serve a local red wine or beer. Also, its ingredients finely chopped tomato and onion, black olives, hard-boiled egg, tuna, oil, and bell pepper.
