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Salads and Vinaigrette

Dive into the world of salads and vinaigrettes, from side salads to composed salads, and learn how to create flavorful and balanced dishes. Discover salad types, care tips for greens, and the art of making vinaigrettes for a delightful culinary journey in your own kitchen.

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Salads and Vinaigrette

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  1. Salads and Vinaigrette Part of Garde Manger or Pantry Department in charge of cold foods: salads, cold sandwiches, some appetizers, dressings and dips.

  2. Types of Salads • Separate course salad ▪Bound Salad • Appetizer salad • Side salad • Composed salad • Dessert salad • Tossed salad • Many of these terms overlap. Ex. The dinner ended with a simple tossed salad of watercress and lemon vinaigrette, garnished with spring peas. (separate course salad and tossed salad)

  3. Side Salads, Separate course salads • Side: might be a light garden salad with a heavy entrée (meatloaf) Or a substantial salad with a light entrée: pasta salad with a fish entrée. Separate Course Salad: cleanse the palate after a Rich meal or a certain course. Salad or “Salat” developed in France…brought by who?

  4. The Main Course Salad • Popular in the USA…..maybe if I eat salad, I won’t gain weight…. • If “salad” includes, meat, nuts, bread, bacon, eggs, cheese, it’s the same as eating those items any other way. - a balanced meal: protein, vegetables, seeds or nuts, dressing. Composed Salads often made into Main Course Salad: = 4 elements… bed, main component, dressing, garnish…artfully arranged on the plate. NO TOSSING!!

  5. Greens Spicy Mild Bitter Types of greens compliment flavors in the dressing, garnish, greater meal….to refresh you

  6. Care and Washing your salad greens…. • Shelf Life: 2-3 days • Wash, Dry, Keep in shallow pan covered with damp cloth. Plastic wrap over this if its going in the fridge. • Spinach and Arugula…”muddy” they grow in wet, muddy soil….wash 2 times!! • Stay ahead of dangerous produce… • https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/index.html • https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php

  7. Vinaigrette: • Combining vinegar and oil into an emulsion. An emulsion is a mixture of uniform consistency made with two ingredients that would otherwise not combine together. • Basic: temporary emulsion • Emulsified: an agent is added that makes the emulsion permanent… Like mayonnaise (egg yolks)

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