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Salad (n): Boring, yet required. Stands between your guests and appetizers and the main course during dinner. Cast away that definition of leafy greens. These five great ideas will take you beyond the salad bowl and make your guests excited about salad again. We have a wave of salad-upgrades involving innovative complements (tuna, fruit) to greens which make a healthier salad, providing vitamins, roughage, and a nice visual for the table too!
Turning Your Salad Inside Out
Entertainers are turning salads inside out to amplify their appeal
Ingredients
- tomato
- lettuce
- carrot
- asparagus
Steps
- Start with a carved out tomato or cucumber
- Stuff with an assortment of lettuces, asparagus, and shoe string carrots.
- Place the carved out vegetables on individual platters alongside a choice of dressings served with ladled bowls or squeeze bottles.
- Be sure to label your dressings clearly - these days, everybody loves options!
A Tomato & Mozzarella Snack
Tomato & Mozzarella with fresh basil is an all-time healthy favorite.
Serve these treats as individual bites on mini forks or stack them up in a tower, adding height and emphasizing their vivid contrasting colors.
For more exciting ways to display these bites, be sure to read about more unique ways to serve hors d'oeuvres.
Serve these treats as individual bites on mini forks or stack them up in a tower, adding height and emphasizing their vivid contrasting colors.
For more exciting ways to display these bites, be sure to read about more unique ways to serve hors d'oeuvres.
Updated Steakhouse Salad
The NY Steakhouse Salad ironically does not contain steak but rather chopped shrimp, string beans, red onions and bacon in a red wine vinaigrette.
To update this classic with flair:
1. Cut cucumber and watermelon into long rectangular chunks.
2. Layer them alternatively atop each other, emulating your years of summer camping.
3. Serve with a side of feta cheese
4. Fill watering cans with dressing to maintain the mood of the summer garden.
5. Place the watering cans on individual plates.
1. Cut cucumber and watermelon into long rectangular chunks.
2. Layer them alternatively atop each other, emulating your years of summer camping.
3. Serve with a side of feta cheese
4. Fill watering cans with dressing to maintain the mood of the summer garden.
5. Place the watering cans on individual plates.
Tuna Niçoise
Popular in French Bistros, this salad hails from the city of Nice in France, and will never go out of style.
Tuna is low in fat and high in omega-3 fatty acids, which are great for the body and the mind.
The traditional niçoise is best served:
1. Sear the tuna rare (preferably on the grill)
2. Accompany with fresh string beans
3. Add a sliced hard boiled egg,
4. Potatoes (for a splash of color, try a purple Peruvian potato; for sweet flavor, try the finerling potato)
5. Red onions,
6. Capers.
If fish is what you fancy, try a night of healthy Eastern flair with sushi and sake.
The traditional niçoise is best served:
1. Sear the tuna rare (preferably on the grill)
2. Accompany with fresh string beans
3. Add a sliced hard boiled egg,
4. Potatoes (for a splash of color, try a purple Peruvian potato; for sweet flavor, try the finerling potato)
5. Red onions,
6. Capers.
If fish is what you fancy, try a night of healthy Eastern flair with sushi and sake.
Corn Salad
A colorful corn salad is an alternative green option that many will enjoy. Just: 1. Drizzle with a cilantro vinaigrette
2. Serve with Tomatoes, black beans, red onion, and fresh cilantro. The Cobb transforms to a complex carbohydrate, providing energy for your body.If you like all these suggestions, but still can't resist serving salad in a bowl, then by all means mix it up with different types of greens and fruit: Baby arugula
Frisée
Orange
Grapefruit
Watermelon
GrapesTurn the salad into a meal by adding nuts and/or toasted sesame or pumpkin seeds, giving the salad more punch than old-fashioned croutons.
2. Serve with Tomatoes, black beans, red onion, and fresh cilantro. The Cobb transforms to a complex carbohydrate, providing energy for your body.If you like all these suggestions, but still can't resist serving salad in a bowl, then by all means mix it up with different types of greens and fruit: Baby arugula
Frisée
Orange
Grapefruit
Watermelon
GrapesTurn the salad into a meal by adding nuts and/or toasted sesame or pumpkin seeds, giving the salad more punch than old-fashioned croutons.
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