Salads a Compilation

Summers are synonymous with mangoes, holidays and salads!!

“Salad the word comes from the French salade, from the Latin salata (salty), from sal (salt). In English, the word first appears as “salad” or “sallet” in the 14th century.

A salad is a dish consisting of small pieces of food, which may be mixed with a sauce or salad dressing and are typically served cold. Salt is associated with a salad because vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times. Salads including layered and dressed salads were popular in Europe since Greek imperial and particularly Roman imperial expansion.

Salads can incorporate a variety of foods including vegetables, fruits, cheese, cooked meat, eggs and grains, leafy greens when you use a leafy vegetable your salad is a garden salad. Other types include bean salad, tuna salad, fattoush, Greek salad.

There are a variety of ways in which you can serve a salad try

• Appetizer salad this is a light salad to stimulate the appetite as the first course of the meal.
• Side salads, to accompany the main course as a side dish or
• Main course salads, usually contain chicken breast or slices of beef
• Dessert salads, sweet versions often containing fruit, gelatine and/or whipped cream.

Generally, a sauce is used to flavour a salad and is called a salad dressing some of the dressings are ranch, Thousand Island, and vinaigrette.” to say that salad is an integral part of Indian cuisine. We have them as sides they are called as

There is no mention of the Indian Salads! A Salad is an integral part of Indian cuisine it also has a place in the traditional thali. The placement is with reference to salt which is served to the upper left of a plate, so you have salt and lime, chutney and kosambri . Salads are served as sides they are called as kosambri, koshimbir, raita etc. in Indian Cuisine!

 

Here are some of the salads on my place

Srivalli from Spicing your Life 

Potato Salad

Pasta Salad with Eggless Mayonnaise Dressing

Fruit Salad with Mint Lemon Drizzle

Rajani from My Kitchen Trails

Watermelon Salad

Beet Salad with Basil Mayo

Ruchi Indu of Ende Kushini

Aloo Raitha

Padmaja of Seduce your Tastebuds

Pineapple Raita

Kalyani of Sizzling Tastebuds

Melon ball Salad

 

Thai Cucumber Salad

French Green Salad

Watermelon Salad with Lemon-Honey Vinaigrette

Mango SalsaHealthy Cabbage SaladCabbage Carrot Salad CurryRoasted Cauliflower Grape Salad

Apricot Spinach Salad

Sweet Split Pea Coconut SaladChickpea Tropical Salad

Cauliflower CousCous Salad

Mix Vegetable SaladGrilled Vegetable SaladPeanuts N Chickpeas SaladChickpea Salad with yoghurt and fennel seedsRadish salad wit mango and ginger dressingCaesar salad with Tofu croutons and Tofu dressingGreen Gram Sprout – Red Raddish SaladApple- red radish saladVegetable Toastada saladSalad Stuffed Cabbage Samosa/RollsCucumber salad with peanutsPeanut chilled saladStuffed tomatoes with radish and sprouted moongCarrot and Walnut SaladGrilled Zucchini & Peanut SaladMango,Carrot & Corn SaladFruit SaladPineapple SaladEgg Chat

Ambe Dal, a Salad

 

 

Red Lentil Salad

Tomato and Onion Salad|Chilean Salad Recipe

Watermelon and Feta Salad with Micro Greens

Matbucha a Salad

Pasta Salad and Stir-fried Mushrooms with Bread Sauce(??)

Cabbage Salad Indian Style

Simple but Yummy Quinoa Salad

Low-Fat Broccoli Salad

Maharashtrian Salad of Cucumber and Peanuts/Khamang Kakdi

Roasted Beetroot Salad with Balsamic Reduction

Pasta Salad

Festive Sautikai Kosambari with Lemon

Sautikai Kosambri/Kakdi chi Koshimber in Curds

Carrot Salad/ Gajari Kosambari

Raw Tomato Kosambri

Peach and Mango Salsa

Guasacaca & Venezuelan Avocado Salsa