Salad

A salad as food is a preparation which originally and primarily - is made from raw salad vegetables - but not necessarily.

Basis of the Court

Salads are cold kitchen and are either served as a starter, main course or side dish. There are various types of lettuce. However, there are also salads, which are almost completely made ​​of meat. Here is to be mentioned, for example, the sausage salad. Other " salads " that do not mainly consist of lettuce plants, hot pasta, bulgur, couscous, millet, potato, rice or egg salad, have the appropriate staple to the base and can be refined with additional vegetables of almost all kinds, with spices enriched. Salad dishes can be spicy or fruity and almost always served cold (possibly, in some dishes a little warm roasted meat served in strips on the salad). The variations of the preparation are virtually endless.

Word origin and history

The word " salad " comes from the French salade, Italian insalata from the Latin salata and originally means " salted ". Salads are so according to the word sense with salt preserved food.

The first book, which dealt exclusively of salads, was John Evelyn Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets (London 1699). He wrote that the vegetable salads from Italy and the Netherlands came from. (English )

Ingredients and side dishes

The ingredients are, among others, herbs, spices (especially salt, pepper ), lemon juice, bacon, croutons ( only on the surface ), mushrooms, olives, meat (especially ham meat, chicken ), cheese (especially Swiss cheese, mozzarella), Seafood and fish (mostly tuna) into consideration; Cured meat, cooked or smoked. As an accompaniment to spicy salad dishes partially white bread will be served.

Salad dressings

A green salad is almost always dressed with a salad dressing ( " dressing " ), for example:

• Mayonnaise- based: cocktail sauce, Louis dressing, ranch dressing, Russian dressing or Thousand - Iceland - dressing
• Oil- based: Vinaigrette / French Dressing
• Only vinegar and oil, and salt and pepper ( in Italy: balsamic vinegar and oil)

Serving

Salads can be served as a side dish, main dish or as a dessert (eg, fruit salad). In your kitchen salad is prepared as a main dish at the table. In many Gastronomien a salad buffet.