A salad is a dish consisting of small pieces of food, which may be mixed with a sauce or salad dressing.Salads can incorporate a wide variety of foods including vegetables, fruits, and cooked meat, eggs, and grains. Garden salads use a base of leafy greens; they are common enough that the word salad alone often refers specifically to garden salads. Other types include bean salad, tuna salad, fattoush, Greek salad, and somen salad.
Most salads are served cold, although some, such as south German potato salad, are served warm. Some consider the warmth of a dish a factor that excludes it from the salad category calling the warm mixture a casserole, a sandwich topping or more specifically, name it for the ingredients which comprise it.
Why do we call it salad?
The basis for the word salad is 'sal', meaning salt. This was chosen because in ancient times, salt was often an ingredient in the dressing. "Salad, a term derived from the Latin sal (salt), which yielded the form salata, 'salted things' such as the raw vegetables eaten in classical times with a dressing of oil, vinegar or salt. The word turns up in Old French as salade and then in late 14th century English as salad or sallet."
Salads may be served at any point during a meal, such as:
Appetizer salads: light salads to stimulate the appetite as the first course of the meal.
Side salads: to accompany the main course as a side dish.
Main course salads, usually containing a portion of heartier fare, such as chicken breast or slices of beef.
Dessert salads: sweet versions often containing fruit, gelatin and/or whipped cream.
Ingredients for making salad:
1 Med. Cucumber peeled and Sliced
1 Med. Onion peeled and sliced
1 Med. Apple tomato cut into pieces
1/2 lemons juice
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp. ground pepper
Salt as required
I used white onion, remove the seeds of the tomato. Combine all in a large bowl, toss making sure everything is coated well.
