Basic Green Salad Food

CHOPPED GREEN SALAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Make the Homemade Italian Dressing.
• Chop romaine and lettuce. Thinly slice the shallot. Peel and chop cucumber. Slice tomatoes and olives in half.
• Mix together all the ingredients for the salad, including the dressing, and toss to combine. If making in advance, refrigerate the components separately; bring the dressing to room temperature before serving.

YOUR BASIC TOSSED SALAD

Steps:

• Place salad greens in a salad bowl and top with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, and carrot. Place oil, vinegar and sugar in a small plastic container. Put the lid on the container and shake dressing until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Pour dressing over salad. Season salad with salt and pepper, to taste, and toss to combine.

VINAIGRETTE FOR GREEN SALAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together the mustard, garlic, vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. While whisking, slowly add the olive oil until the vinaigrette is emulsified.
• Place the salad greens in a medium bowl and add enough dressing to moisten. Sprinkle with a little extra salt and pepper, if desired, and serve immediately.

SIMPLE GREEN SALAD

Steps:

• Whisk 1 minced shallot, 1 tablespoon each whole-grain mustard and lemon juice, and salt and pepper. Whisk in 1/3 cup olive oil. Toss with 1 torn romaine heart, 1 torn head Bibb lettuce and 1/2 bunch chopped chives.

CLASSIC FRENCH GREEN SALAD

Steps:

• Whisk together the chives, tarragon, olive oil, vinegar, mustard,salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce.
• Add in the Brie, if using.
• Pour over greens and toss until coated.

GREEN SALAD

Steps:

• Microwave or saute onion and bell pepper until soft; set aside to cool.
• In a large salad bowl, combine the onion, pepper, salad greens, deli meat and tomato. Sprinkle with the onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper and salt. Toss to mix.
• Pour on enough salad dressing or vinegar to coat, toss again and serve.

GREEN SALAD

Steps:

• Wash greens well and tear them into bite-size pieces. Dry greens well on cloth towels, then wrap in several layers of paper towels and place package in fridge. This will keep for several hours, several days even if you wrap the paper wrapped leaves in a cloth towel and keep them in the crisper drawer of your fridge.

BASIC GREEN SALAD

Steps:

• Leave the lettuce leaves whole if small, or shred as finely as you like. Peel and slice the onion. Put the lettuce and onion into a salad bowl, add the vinaigrette and lightly turn the lettuce over in the dressing, until well mixed.
• Other salad vegetables can be added:.
• Beetroot (cooked if necessary, and sliced).
• Celery (washed, scraped if necessary, cut into 1in lengths).
• Cucumber (washed, cut into rings or chunks).
• Pepper (washed, cored, cut into rings).
• Radishes (with tops cut off, roots removed, and washed).
• Spring onion (washed, cut off roots and yellow leaves, cut into rings or leave whole).
• Tomatoes (washed, sliced or cut into quarters).
• Watercress, mustard and cress (washed, sprinkled on top of the other vegetables).