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'Salad' is a light meal — or, more commonly a part of a larger meal, such as an appetizer — consisting of mixed vegetables (usually including at least one leaf vegetable) or fruit, often with a dressing or sauce, occasionally nuts and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta or cheese. It is usually seen as a healthy dish, although not always low in calories, salt, sugar, or fat because of the dressing that is often added.
The word "salad" comes from the French ''salade'' of the same meaning, which in turn is from the Latin ''salata'', "salty", from ''sal'', "salt", (See also sauce, salsa, sausage), for which the word "salary" is derived from.
Salads also exist in some cuisines of Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, these are called ''nộm'' or ''gỏi''.

Contents

The green salad

Popular types of green salads

Dressings

Garnishes

Other types of salad

History

External links

The 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, or arugula.
Other common vegetables in a green salad include tomato, cucumber, peppers, mushroom, onion, spring onion, red onion, carrot and radish. Other ingredients such as pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, beans, croutons, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken), cheese, or fish (e.g. tuna) are sometimes added to salads.

Popular types of green salads

★ Caesar salad

★ Cobb salad

★ Greek salad

★ Blackford salad

Dressings

A green salad is often served with a dressing. Some examples include:

★ Balsamic vinegar

★ Caesar dressing

★ Italian dressing

★ Mayonnaise

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★ Blue cheese dressing

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★ Green goddess dressing

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★ Louis dressing

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★ Ranch dressing

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★ Russian dressing

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★ Thousand Island dressing

★ Olive oil

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★ French dressing

★ Tahini

★ Vinaigrette

★ Wafu dressing
The concept of salad dressing varies across cultures. There are many commonly used salad dressings in North America. Traditional dressings in southern Europe are vinaigrettes, while mayonnaise is predominant in eastern European countries and Russia. In Denmark dressings are often based on crème fraîche. In China, where Western salad is a recent adoption from Western cuisine, the term salad dressing (沙拉酱, ''shalajiang'') tends to refer to mayonnaise or mayonnaise-based dressings.

Garnishes

There are various vegetables and other fare that are often added to green salad. Some of them are:


★ shelled sunflower seeds

★ onions (mostly the red variety)

★ bacon bits (sometimes the bits are artificially flavored pieces of textured soybean protein)

★ radishes

★ grated carrots

★ tomatoes

★ surimi - artificial crab meat

★ cucumbers

★ bell peppers

★ fresh parsley

★ beetroot

★ cress

★ mushrooms
Again, individual taste usually governs the choice of salad garnishes.

Other types of salad

A Watergate salad	A fruit salad
	A Som Tam, Green Papaya Salad

Some salads are based on food items other than fresh vegetables:

★ Antipasto salad

★ Bean salad

★ Chicken salad

★ Coleslaw

★ Congealed salad

★ Egg salad

★ Eggplant salad

★ Fruit salad

★ Greek salad

★ Israeli salad

★ Larb, from Laos

★ Milner Salad

★ Pasta salad

★ Potato salad

★ Russian salad

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★ Ivanov Salad

★ Salmagundi

★ Shopska salad from Bulgaria

★ Somen salad from Japan

★ Som tam (Thai ส้มตำ) or Green Papaya Salad from Thailand

★ Gỏi ngó sen - a Vietnamese salad

★ Gỏi cá sanh cầm - from Hue province,Vietnam

★ Gỏi cá trích - from Phu Quoc island, Kien Giang province, Vietnam

★ Nộm rau muống - from northern Vietnam; made with ''Ipomoea aquatica''

★ Nộm hoa chuối - from northern Vietnam

★ Thịt gà xé phay - from Vietnam

★ Tabouli

★ Taco salad

★ Tuna salad

★ Waldorf salad

★ Watergate salad

History

The diarist John Evelyn wrote a book on salads, '' (1699), that describes the new salad greens like "sellery" (celery), coming out of Italy and the Netherlands.
Salad is often served as an appetizer before a larger meal. Other traditional western appetizers include, but are not limited to, bread (often of the garlic variety), and soup.

External links

★ Alice Roth, "Sallets"

★ Simple Salad Recipes