To make the perfect Salad

Hello, everyone!

Hope you all doing well. Currently, we are creating salad’s in our cooking classes and getting the theory notes of salads for our culinary theory.

As from the title says we learnt in our first week the rules of making salad’s but this is how to make the perfect salad at home or in work!

1. Use first class quality ingredients preferably ingredients that are in season.
2. Tear the lettuce and DON’T chop as it causes discolouration.
3. Prepare before serving it up
4. Ensure all ingredients are washed and dried in spin lettuce
5. ONLY apply dressing prior service

There is also classic salads and modern salads. The classifications are Plain = simple or single and mixed = compound, composite or complex.

Plain salads 

Green Salad

Vegetable Salad eg Celeriac salad, mushroom salad, cucumber salad.

Green Salad

Celeriac Salad

Cucumber Salad

Mixed Compound, Composite, Complex

Fruit based compound salads eg Pineapple or watermelon salad

Meat and fish based salads eg rabbit

Vegetables based compound salads eg potato

Hot and warm compound salads eg Chicken Caesar salad

Frainaceous based compound eg pasta and rice salad

Watermelon Salad

Pasta Salad

Rabbit Salad

So in the following week, I am posting a few salads you can try at home, some of them aren't very popular here in Ireland but if you want to try it have a go! Also, be showing you how to make the perfect coleslaw for you. And some food safety along with it because it's not the best idea to keep salad's after a couple of days especially pasta and rice as they can seriously cause food poisoning!

Thank you guys for the post this week! If you want to suggest a salad for me write or any food in peculiar just comment below or say it to me on my facebook page!

See you all soon!

PB x