Answer:
The beautiful thing about salads is that you can incorporate ingredients that match your personal taste. You can find varied salad recipes from books, food vlogs, cooking shows and even from your own discovery. No matter how you decide to dress up your salad, it stays tempting. But one must bear in mind that salads are not simply a mixture of ingredients with delicious dressing but a special dish that requires proper way of preparation.
- Quality of ingredients. Salad is as good as the quality of its ingredients, so you must use ingredients that are fresh, ripe and in season.
- Eye Appeal. It should be attractive, appetizing, creatively presented.
- Simplicity. Make it simple, not overcrowded.
- Neatness. Keep salad neatly placed in a plate.
- Contrast and Harmony of colors. Contrast in color for your garnishing can accentuate the appearance of the salad.
- Proper Food combinations. Choose combination of ingredients carefully. Pineapples and coconut go well with chicken but not compatible with tuna.
- Foods should be recognizable. Taste of the food that you are using as a base should be identifiable when you taste the salad. The dressing should dominate the taste. The size of cut should be bid enough (usually bite size) to be recognized.
- Keep foods properly chilled but not ice-cold.
- Serve hot foods while hot and cold foods cold.
- Keep it clean and crispy. This is done by washing greens in large quantity of water and drain well, removing the green from water to allow the dirt to settle to the bottom of the container.
- Flavorful. Tempting and stimulating if prepared and presented properly.
- Drain all the ingredients well. Water or excess juices will weaken dressings and will make your salad look messy.
- Do not overcook food. Food and ingredients when overcooked eliminates the color and its vitamins and minerals as well.
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