Vegetable salad
Historical facts about lettuce:
- This dish was known 2500 years ago
- It came to the international menu from Italy, or more precisely, from Siena in Rome
- From the start, the salad is labelled as a garden food
- 18.-19. gs. The “salad revolution” is underway – the range of types has become much larger
A little more about vegetable salads
Salad – a mixture of products served with a dressing, usually cream or tomato sauce, and herbs; dill, basil, onion.
Vegetable salads are varied; tomato/cucumber salad, cashew salad (Matar Gajar ka salad), potato and green bean salad, Chinese salad, green salad, eggplant caviar salad (Melitzanes Salata), Russian vinaigrette, Greek salad, salad with sweet peppers.
Fresh cabbage belongs to the anti-cancer foods, as does cilli pepper.
Fish and seafood salads
Historical facts about lettuce:
- This dish was known 2500 years ago
- It came to the international menu from Italy, or more precisely, from Siena in Rome
- From the start, the salad is labelled as a garden food
- 18.-19. gs. A “salad revolution” is taking place – the range of types has become much larger.
A little more about seafood salads
Products such as crab meat, tiger prawns, fish fillets, tuna, shrimps.
Remember how fresh fish, tuna, prawns, etc., are perishables, so salads should not stand for long. To save lettuce for longer, here are some methods. The most popular are dry cooking (without dressing until serving) and pickling.