Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Salad







Salad

Salad is a mixture of cold foods, usually including vegetables and/or fruits, often with a dressing, occasionally nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta, cheese, or whole grains. Salad is often served as an appetizer
before a larger meal.
History
A book on salads that describes the new salad greens like "sellery" (celery), coming out of Italy and the Netherlands.Recently, salads have been sold commercially in supermarkets for those who do not have time to prepare a home-made salad, at restaurants (restaurants will often have a "Salad Bar" laid out with salad-making ingredients which the customer will use to put together their salad) and at fast-food chains specialising in health food. Fast-food chains such as McDonalds and KFC that typically sell "junk food" such as hamburgers, fries and fried chicken have begun selling packaged salads in order to appeal to the health-conscious
Green salad
The "green salad" or "garden salad" is most often composed of some vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, spinach,. The salad leaves are cut or torn into bite-sized fragments and tossed together or may be placed in a predetermined arrangement.
Other common vegetables in a green salad include
cucumber, peppers,mushrooms, onions, spring onions, red onions, avocado, carrots, celery, and radishes. Other ingredients such as tomatoes, pasta, olive, hard boiled egg, artichoke hearts, heart, of palm, roasted red peppers, cooked potates, rice, sweet com, green beans, black beans, are sometimes added to salads. In a restaurant, a small salad without meat is called a dinner salad. The entree salads may contain chicken, either grilled or fried chicken fingers on top of the salad, or seafood in the form of grilled or fried shrimp, or a fish steak, such as tuna, mahi-mahi, or salmon. Steak such as sirloin can be grilled and sliced and placed upon the salad.
Popular types of garden salads
Caesar salad
Chef salad
Chinese chicken salad
Cobb salad
Greek salad
Michigan salad

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