The Most Famous Salad Recipes

Salads are often constructed in a haphazard manner with lettuce, tomatoes, and whatever else can be found in the refrigerator. Cucumber, eggs, tuna, corn kernels, pineapple, capers, olives, and cheese are all typical salad ingredients.

There are also some world famous salads, which have stood the test of time. Waldorf salad is a combination of celery, apples, walnuts, and mayonnaise. This salad is very simple but truly delicious.
Caesar salad is another one of the most famous salad recipes. This salad is made with parmesan cheese, romaine lettuce, egg, capers, croutons and more. It is served with a creamy Caesar dressing. Some Caesar salads feature chicken, bacon or anchovies but none of these were part of the original recipe.

Making Famous Salads at Home

If you want to recreate a famous salad recipe, why not have a go? A basic Waldorf salad is a good one to start with. Simply chop celery and apple, stir in some walnuts, and add some mayonnaise and season to taste. You can serve Waldorf salad as a side dish or even as a baked potato filling.

You can also invent your own salads. Combine drained, canned shrimps, crabmeat, or tuna with mayonnaise and tomato puree. Add a splash each of whisky and Worcestershire sauce to make a marie rose dressing.
Boil some chopped potatoes until they are al dente, then mix them with onions, egg, mayonnaise, curry powder and anything else you fancy for a tasty and filling dish.

Making salads is a lot of fun and you can mix mayonnaise and any flavorings you like with macaroni or rice to make easy salad recipes. Chicken salad recipes are also very popular and if you have some leftover cooked chicken, there are all kinds of salads you can make with it the following day.

Salad Nicoise Recipe

The following recipe for Salad Nicoise serves six people as a main dish or ten as an appetizer. The combination of tuna, beans, tomatoes, potatoes and more is heavenly. No wonder this salad has stood the test of time. You can use shallots instead of green onions if you want, and halved cherry tomatoes instead of regular tomatoes.

You will need:

• 1 head Boston lettuce
• 2 tablespoon minced green onions
• 1 lb green beans, cooked until al dente
• 4 ripe tomatoes, cut into wedges
• 1/4 cup vinegar mixed with 1/4 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsley
• 3 tablespoon capers
• 1/4 cup small black pitted olives
• 1 can anchovies
• 4 small potatoes, boiled, peeled and sliced
• 6 oz canned, oil packed tuna
• 6 cold hard boiled eggs, halved lengthwise
• Salt, to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

How to make it:

 Wash the lettuce, then separate the leaves and let them dry. Arrange them on a big serving platter.
Toss together some of the oil and vinegar mixture with the beans, green onions and some salt and pepper. Arrange the potato slices in the center of the serving platter. Arrange green beans at both ends of the serving platter.

Baste the tomatoes with some of the oil and vinegar and arrange them, and the tuna, on the serving platter. Surround the salad with the egg halves, yolk facing up. Put an anchovy on top of each egg half, then spoon the remaining oil and vinegar over everything. Decorate the platter with the parsley, olives, and capers and serve immediately.

Salad recipes can be basic or elaborate. You can make chicken salad recipes for appetizers, lunches or suppers and there are plenty to choose from. One of the things you will learn while there is how to make beer can chicken like a pro. We all remember those wonderful cookouts as a kid with grandpa cooking that perfect chicken so juice and tender it practically falls off the bone.
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