I talked with a expert (my one friend who knows how to use a knife) and the conclusion is: any vegetable that is served in a different plate.
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So if I put my fries on a seperate plate it's a salad? Good to know
Fries aren't a vegetable though :(
Potatoes come from a plants roots and should be considered a vegetable. And fries are made of potatoes. Therefore I say itβs a salad.
But not all plant products are vegetables. Take wood, sugar, or coconut oil as examples.
According to Wikipedia:
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas.
They are usually sold with the other vegetables in a supermarket because they are a root vegetable.
Letβs stop arguing and just enjoy fries instead
No worries. Enjoy!
A salad is at least one ingredient chopped up and tossed with some kind of dressing. This basically requires at least two ingredients. One chopped solid and one liquid dressing. Could be cucumbers and vinegar. Could be lettuce with ranch dressing. Obviously salads with more ingredients than two or three are probably gonna be better, but I think you could call cucumbers and onions chopped up and tossed with ranch a salad for sure.
I grew up eating green salads without dressing, because the dressings my parents favored were so salty and acidic they hurt my mouth. Lettuce, sliced tomatoes, carrots, celery, maybe cucumber.
These days I usually go for a "Mediterranean" salad with greens, olives, feta or similar cheese, cucumber, tomato, bell peppers, herbs, and a splash of olive oil.
If you're making it for a group of people, finding a good mix of vegetables for a salad involves excluding the ones that someone doesn't like. I don't like zucchini or asparagus. One of my housemates can't abide celery. One friend doesn't like jicama. Another friend is okay with red bell pepper but can't abide green bell pepper. Making a salad everyone enjoys seems to be partly about getting all these preferences right and then balancing what's left.
Nachos are just upgraded taco salad.
I went to a party where everyone was supposed to bring a salad and vote on the best one. I brought the nachos. The vote was unanimous.
I generally agree, and good insight! I think though that a distinction for me is that taco salad would have a bunch of lettuce.
I know people who's primary salad is just tomatoes and cucumbers with nothing else... no salt, no pepper, no onion, no dressing, no oil... I still consider it a salad, just not a good one.
Going by the Wikipedia first paragraph definition any two items mixed together can be a salad.
A salad is a dish consisting of mixed ingredients, frequently vegetables. They are typically served chilled or at room temperature, though some can be served warm. Condiments and salad dressings, which exist in a variety of flavors, are often used to enhance a salad.
I'd say at least 5. I have had many great salads and I have also had salads that were just bowls of lettuce...π