This article is about the type of culinary dish. A salad is a dish consisting of mixed, mostly natural ingredients with at least one raw ingredient. They are often dressed, and typically served at room temperature or chilled, though some can be served warm. In English, the word first appears as “salad” or “sallet” in larb salad 14th century.
The Romans, ancient Greeks, Persians and Indians ate mixed greens with dressing, a type of mixed salad. A list of common items arriving on ships and their designated prices when appraising cargo included “a can of salad oil at 1. 10 florins” and “an anker of wine vinegar at 16 florins”. Salads may be sold in supermarkets, at restaurants and at fast food chains. In the United States, restaurants will often have a salad bar with salad-making ingredients, which the customers will use to put together their salad. An antipasto plate, the first dish of a formal Italian meal, is similar to a composed salad, and has vegetables, cheese, and meat.
Bound salads are assembled with thick sauces such as mayonnaise. One portion of a bound salad will hold its shape when placed on a plate with a scoop. Dessert salads rarely include leafy greens and are often sweet. Archived from the original on 3 November 2005. As Bagged Salad Kits Boom, Americans Eat More Greens”. Things to Do with a Salad: One Hundred One Things to Do With a Salad.
Florida Salads: a collection of dainty, wholesome salad recipes that will appeal to the most fastidious, Jacksonville, Fla: Jacksonville Printing Co. Fattūsh is derived from the Arabic fatt “crush” and the suffix of Turkic origin -ūsh. Coining words this way was common in Levantine Arabic. Fattoush includes vegetables and herbs varying by season and taste. Claudia Roden, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, 2008, p.
This Arab cuisine-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Homemade healthy cucumber salad with Asian spices. I love cucumber, it’s so light, fresh and healthy. However, cucumber by itself doesn’t have much of a flavor.