Know Your SALADs
Salad is any of a wide variety of dishes, including vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, eggs, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or seafood; and fruit salads. They may include a mixture of cold and hot, often including raw vegetables or fruits.
Salads may be served at any point during a meal, such as:
§ Appetizer salads- light salads to stimulate the appetite as the first course of the meal.
§ Side salads- to accompany the main course as a side dish.
§ Main course salads- usually containing a portion of protein, such as chicken breast or slices of beef.
§ Palate-cleansing salads- to settle the stomach after the main course.
§ Dessert salads- sweet versions usually containing gelatin or whipped cream.
TYPE OF SALADS
Green salad
Green salad or garden salad is most often composed of leafy
vegetables such as lettuce varieties, spinach,
or rocket
(arugula). Due to their low caloric density, green salads are a
common diet food. The salad leaves may be cut or torn into bite-sized fragments
and tossed together (tossed salad), or may be placed in a
predetermined arrangement (composed salad).
Green salads include leaf lettuce and
leafy vegetables with a sauce or dressing.
Other salads are based on pasta, noodles,
or gelatin. Most salads are traditionally served cold, although some, such
as south German potato salad, are served warm.
Green salads and other salads, including leaf
lettuces are generally served with a dressing, as well as various garnishes such
as nuts or croutons,
and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs,
or whole grains.
Vegetable salad
Vegetables other than greens may be used in a
salad. Common vegetables used in a salad include cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, spring onions, red onions, avocado, carrots, celery,
and radishes.
Other ingredients, such as olives, hard boiled
egg, artichoke hearts, heart of palm, roasted red bell
peppers, green beans, croutons, cheeses, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken),
or seafood (e.g. tuna, shrimp), are
sometimes added to salads.
Bound salad
A bound salad can be composed or tossed.
They are assembled with thick sauces such as mayonnaise.
One portion of a true bound salad will hold its shape when placed on a plate
with an ice-cream scoop. Examples of bound salad include tuna salad, pasta salad, chicken salad, egg salad,
and potato salad -
Main
course salads
Main course salads
or dinner salads or entrée salads in North America may contain grilled or fried
chicken pieces, seafood such as grilled or fried shrimp or a fish steak such
as tuna, mahi-mahi,
or salmon.
Sliced steak,
such as sirloin or
skirt, can be placed upon the salad. Caesar salad, Chef salad, Cobb salad, Greek salad,
and Michigan salad are types of main course salad.
Fruit salads
Fruit salads are made of fruit, and include the fruit cocktail that can be made fresh or from canned fruit. With or without dressings like curd, whipped cream, ice cream etc.
Fruit salads are made of fruit, and include the fruit cocktail that can be made fresh or from canned fruit. With or without dressings like curd, whipped cream, ice cream etc.
Dessert
salads
Dessert
salads are often sweet and rarely include leafy greens content. Common variants
are made with gelatin or whipped cream viz. jello salad, pistachio
salad, snickers salad, glorified
rice, and cookie salad popular in parts of the Mid-western
US.
More on healthy salads and fine tips will follow... tips to make any salad more healthy, toppings - calories watch, salad leafs, and lot more...
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