You can make a salad from almost anything: the products left in the refrigerator or specially selected delicacies. But any housewife dreams of creating her own signature recipe for the perfect salad.
Instructions
Step 1
Every good housewife has a signature dish. Sometimes it is inherited from a grandmother or mother, sometimes a woman finds it among the recipes of a good cookbook, and sometimes she comes up with it herself. A popular dish at any meal is salad. A huge number of recipes for such salads have been created, but still it is much more valuable to come up with your own salad recipe. Such that he was known to the whole family and loved by your household. The preparation of this salad can become a tradition, it can even become the main and favorite dish of your family.
Step 2
First, think about which foods you and your family love most. You should not choose those products for the salad that some of the household does not eat or those to which someone is allergic. Will this salad be winter or summer, fresher or more satisfying? Are you going to put any specific foods in there, such as rare fish or seafood, unusual mushrooms or nuts?
Step 3
All unusual foods need to be tested separately in a salad and can be difficult to obtain at certain times of the year. Therefore, you need to think about their presence in your dish in advance. Although if you love this product very much and cannot imagine your signature dish without it, then, of course, you should not refuse it.
Step 4
You need to prepare all the selected ingredients, wash or boil and lay out in front of you on the table. Determine which of them will be the main ones, and which you can do without on occasion. Combine a few ingredients and taste the resulting dish. However, keep in mind that the dense and heavy components of the salad, such as potatoes, meat, chicken or eggs, must be supplemented with fresh or boiled vegetables, only then the overall balance of the dish will not be disturbed.
Step 5
Mix the selected ingredients in several variations, try which combination you like best. Do not be afraid to remove or replace any components of the salad if you do not like its taste yet. Experiment with the ingredients: if the taste is weak, add something spicy, such as seasoning or garlic, and if too saturated, dilute it with cucumber or bell peppers. You can add delicious ingredients such as crackers or sesame seeds to the salad, then the dish will sparkle with new colors.
Step 6
It is not necessary to create a new salad from the beginning. If you have a salad recipe that you like, you can improve it by adding a new ingredient or inventing a new sauce for it - you get a completely different dish. Or take a few ingredients as a basis and add new ones to them each time - you can get a chameleon salad. After all the experiments, it is time to present the dish to the family or guests. And maybe they will have an even better idea of how to improve this salad.
