Salads are not just the perfect meal for someone who is trying to lose weight but also a quintessential way to include all the necessary ingredients in one's diet. Most people perceive salad as a dish that lacks the necessary taste and is rather dull. However, there are a lot of salad recipes that are healthy yet very tasty. One can add a variety of ingredients to salads to give them a versatile texture and a very delicious taste.
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However, sometimes the salad is too soggy, bland, and lacks the flavour that a delicious salad should have despite using all the necessary ingredients. This is because the person might be making some repetitive mistakes while making their salad. Here is what one needs to know about these common salad mistakes and how to correct them.
* Start With Basics
As a person who is making salads for the very first time and doesn't have any previous experience, one should try to stay as basic as possible. Making an extravagant French and Italian salad in the first go and expecting it to become perfect is a little impractical. A person should be making salads from green vegetables like kale, romaine, mesclun, and arugula that have maximum health benefits. However, there is no thumb rule while choosing vegetables for the salad. A person may use whatever microgreens and other nutrition-rich vegetables are available.
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* Washing Vegetables
One of the worst-tasting salads is the one that is too soggy and lacks any life. For a salad to be interesting, it needs to have a crunchy and fresh texture. The correct way to wash a salad is to first wash it under some fresh water and then let it dry before making a salad out of it. This is extremely important to make sure that the salad doesn't have any moisture and also doesn't impart moisture to other ingredients used in the salad. Keeping the vegetables separated in a tray in a well-ventilated kitchen is going to make the process of vegetable drying even faster.
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* Importance Of Dressing
Most people do not understand the power of dressing. Making a dressing merely takes 5 to 10 minutes but has a significant impact on the taste of the salad. Instead of just sprinkling some salt and pepper, one can make a basic salad dressing from olive oil, mustard sauce, lemon juice and some units. Two spoons of the salad dressing are going to instantly transform the salad for the better. One can make salad dressing from different types of ingredients and it is a way of unleashing one's creative potential while making a salad.
* Choosing The Right Dressing
While choosing the ingredients for making dressing for the salad, one must keep in mind the ingredients being used to make the salad. It is always important to use complimentary ingredients for dressing that helps in elevating the taste of a salad. For example, kale is an overpowering vegetable that only tastes good with bold and radiant ingredients like wine for a dressing. On the other hand, using a creamy dressing made from mayonnaise and olive oil is going to go well with lighter vegetables like cucumbers and cabbage.
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* Salad Tong
A salad tong is very frequently used by people to give a good toss to vegetables and other ingredients. However, the intention behind making a salad is to make it very light and airy with a gentle touch of spices and salad dressing. The best way to make a concoction of all these ingredients is to use one's hand instead of using a spoon or a salad tong. Using one's hand will allow the air to pass through and also help in incorporating a very nice flavour in all the ingredients.
* Tossing All Ingredients Together
There is a proper chronology when it comes to adding ingredients to the salad. One can't just simply add any ingredient whenever they feel like it and expect the salad to taste good. Heavy ingredients such as seeds, tomatoes, nuts, and any other bulky ingredients most often sink to the bottom of the bowl because of their weight. Hence it is always better to add these ingredients towards the end. Also salt is one thing that should be added towards the very end only after judging how much salt is required since the dressing used is also a bit savoury. Always add green vegetables before adding herbs as it will help elevate the flavours of herbs even more.