Salads and Dressing
Salad - a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or
other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients
A dish that consists of a variety of ingredients which generally have some type of dressing mixed
with the greens. Salad can be served as a side dish, as a separate course, or as the main course of a
meal. Vegetables or fruit are most often a main ingredient to accompany leafy greens, but a mixture of
the two is also common. In addition, vegetable salads may include some type of meat, a pasta, cheeses,
or nuts with the other ingredients. Both vegetable and fruit salad are generally served cold, but there
are some salads that are served warm or served with warm dressing.
Types of salads
Green salad, Bound salads, Dinner salads, Fruit salads, Dessert salads
A. Green Salads – a salad that consists of lettuce and other uncooked green vegetables.
Ex. Caesar Salad, Green Salad
B. Bound Salads - A "bound" salad can be composed (arranged) or tossed (put in a bowl and mixed
with a thick dressing). They are assembled with thick sauces such as mayonnaise. One portion of
a true bound salad will hold its shape when placed on a plate with an ice-cream scoop. Example
potato salad and tuna salad.
C. Dinner Salads - Main course salads (known as dinner salads or as entrée salads in the United
States) may contain small pieces of poultry, seafood, or steak Chef salad, Cobb salad, Chinese
chicken salad, Michigan salad, and Pittsburgh salad are dinner salads.
D. Fruit salads/dessert salads- Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes
served in a liquid, either their own juices or a syrup. In different forms, fruit salad can be served
as an appetizer, a side salad.
2. Dressings - A salad dressing is a sauce for salads. Used on virtually all leafy salads, dressings may also
be used in making salads of beans, noodle or pasta salads and antipasti, and forms of potato salad
What are the four types of salad dressing?
The four main salad dressings are vinaigrette, emulsified vinaigrette, mayonnaise-based, and
mayonnaise. An emulsion is the permanent blending of unlike ingredients, such as oil and vinegar.
Vinaigrettes are lighter dressings used on more delicate ingredients, like salad greens
Vinaigrette - a sauce made typically of oil, vinegar, and seasonings and used especially on salads, cold
meats, or fish. — called also vinaigrette dressing.
Emulsified Vinaigrette- Oil and vinegar vinaigrette are emulsified using whole eggs for a creamy
permanent emulsion.
Mayonnaise - A smooth, creamy, semi-solid emulsified dressing consisting of vegetable oil (65%) and
eggs, acidified with vinegar or lemon juice and delicately spiced.