Favourite salads

Biblioklept

What do you have in your salads? I've never progressed passed lettuce, cucumber, tomato and pepper - spring onion too if I'm feeling fancy

I really want to try new salad ingredients and new combinations but I don't know where to start. 

What is your favourite of all salad and what goes in it? 

66Mustang

I like all kinds of salads. Something I would recommend is that you can put raw mushrooms in salad, gives some protein without using meat or dairy. Also nuts, apples, cheese, meat, tuna etc.

Sandy_123

I just use what I have in. Lettuce,  beetroot, coleslaw, tomatoe, with potato or tuna, egg,  or on as a side,  love beetroot. Plus cheese. Grated carrot

SueHeath

I love grated carrot/sultanas/soaked for a few hours in orange juice.

Cress/water cress/ baby spinage or you can get the different salad bags - it's really what ever you fancy.

leeCal

Olives go nicely in salad, especially stuffed with anchovies, that’s if I must eat a salad! Being a carnivore I don’t eat salad often at all.

Sandy_123

Oh yeah cress definitely  sprinkled on 

leeCal

If you like some colour in your salad you can use nasturtiums instead of cress, taste virtually the same. 🙂

janer1967

Radish , celery,  nuts , fruit eg grapes , melon   pineapple.  Feta cheese beetroot 

I usually have a bowl made up the just add stuff as I want to it like 0rawns , Mackrell , crab   ham , chicken tuna 

I like crispy onions on top or flavoured croutons 

Cartini

Moving away from lettuce & tomato, my favourite is a Thai green papaya and pomegranate salad

Biblioklept

66Mustang said:

I like all kinds of salads. Something I would recommend is that you can put raw mushrooms in salad, gives some protein without using meat or dairy. Also nuts, apples, cheese, meat, tuna etc.

I didn't know you could eat mushrooms raw!!! I thought they had to be well cooked. I also never thought of apple, that's a weird combination to me, completely different food type. Do lots of people eat apple with salad?

Biblioklept

Sandy_123 said:

I just use what I have in. Lettuce,  beetroot, coleslaw, tomatoe, with potato or tuna, egg,  or on as a side,  love beetroot. Plus cheese. Grated carrot

I forgot about grated carrot yummmm. I have only ever tried pickled beetroot like from a jar

SueHeath

I agree @leeCal there are lots of things grown in the garden that we can eat from flowers and herbs x

Biblioklept

leeCal said:

If you like some colour in your salad you can use nasturtiums instead of cress, taste virtually the same. 🙂

I hadn't even heard of those lol, do you eat the flower or the leaves? Or just the petals? 

Biblioklept

So many recommendations for fruit with salad I never thought of it the combination sounds strange to me do you literally just mix it through your normal salad foods??

Biblioklept

Cartini said:

Moving away from lettuce & tomato, my favourite is a Thai green papaya and pomegranate salad

That may be beyond my capabilities I've never tried either thing. What does papaya taste like?

Cartini

Biblioklept said:

Cartini said:

Moving away from lettuce & tomato, my favourite is a Thai green papaya and pomegranate salad

That may be beyond my capabilities I've never tried either thing. What does papaya taste like?

I can`t describe the taste other than it`s very sublte and not too sweet

Biblioklept

Sorry for more questions what is the texture like? Is it wet?

Cartini

Biblioklept said:

Sorry for more questions what is the texture like? Is it wet?

It is a wet fruit, yes.  If you shred / grate a cucumber, the texture is similar to that

leeCal

@Biblioklept You can eat the petals or the flower, they taste like cress.

Sandy_123

Pomegranate seeds are nice in salad too

Biblioklept

I think I've tried those before so will add them to my shopping list. Is there any special way I need to prepare pomegranate seeds?