How to Toss Salad

Do you enjoy the fresh taste of salad? You’ll love learning how to toss salad. If you improperly toss salad, you can bruise the salad ingredients. This results in a huge mess. The trick to a successful salad is a nice cold bowl and building your dish the proper way. Doing this will ensure that your side dish is perfect every time you wish to serve it to guests or family members.

Place your salad serving bowl in the refrigerator while you prepare your fresh vegetables.

Gather your items for making your fresh garden salad. Chop and prepare all of the vegetables individually, prior to putting them together for your salad.

Remove your toss salad bowl from the refrigerator.

Place a small portion of your lettuce in the cold bowl. Add a few of each of the fresh garden vegetables you prepared for your toss salad. Repeat this step until the cold bowl is full.

Get out a wooden set of wooden spoons. Insert a spoon into the bowl on each side about half way down. Tilt the spoons. Gently lift the lettuce and other ingredients in your toss salad. Repeat twice.

Remove the wooden spoons from your toss salad. Cover the salad with a plastic wrap. Place bowl back in refrigerator until time to serve.

Tip:

You can add fruits and nuts to your toss salad for more variety.

Allow guests and family members to add their salad dressing after they are served.

Warning:

Don’t prepare your dish too far ahead of the meal or the lettuce can wilt.

Don’t put salad dressing on the salad.

Resources:

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1610.html

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-11.html

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/agnic/homegardening/lettuce.htm