I've enjoy making chopped salad … kind of a new thing
I'm doing more and more often.
I've always heard you shouldn't cut lettuce with a knife, but so far the edges haven't
turned brown. I even bought a cheap bowl that would layer well and show off the colors.
(You see our humidity has arrived -- condensation on the bowl!)
For this salad, I chopped all the lettuce (a variety including butter lettuce)
and kept it covered in the bowl in the frig.
I also cut the toppings up ahead of time and put them with paper towel
in individual sandwich baggies. If I had added them too early to the lettuce
it probably would have gotten way too wet.
I let people put their own dressing on and sort of dig
into the salad to choose what they wanted.
I love salads of any sort, and chopping makes it interesting. They say that a plastic knife is the best for cutting lettuce (but I cut mine with an ordinary knife!)
ReplyDeleteI love the butter lettuce and that's what I bought last week for salads. My husband chops all kinds of veggies to go with his sandwich for lunch...carrots, cucumber, tomatoes and tiny sweet peppers. I should chop some ahead of time like this. What a great idea! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteI've heard the same thing about lettuce. However, I've chopped many varieties using my chef's knife and have never had the edges turn brown. Perhaps it's ann "old chef's tale"!! Your salad looks delicious and cooling. One of my best friends just purchased a condo in Charlotte. They will only use it every few months to be near their daughter and family. Diana said it is very hot and humid there. Sounds a lot like Charleston. We have humidity here too. The nights cool down though.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Bonnie
Hi Bonnie,
DeleteThe humidity can be so oppressive here. We really have had a break so far until the past week. But I don't think it's as bad as in Charleston. It's thick there. But it also could be because we are usually outside in Charleston--walking around, etc. so would really feel it!
A section salad instead of a layered one! Looks beautiful, interesting, and yummy. I was recently served lettuce that had been chopped into thin strips...so much easier to eat and I know that they did it with a knife.
ReplyDeleteI do like the way it looks.
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty salad full of goodness. We eat a lot of salads, especially during these hot and humid days of summer. I use a lot of romaine and always cut it with a knife. We eat it up quick enough to not have a problem with rust. ♥
ReplyDeleteYour chopped salad is beautiful. It makes me want to dig right in! You're right: chopped salads seem to be a thing these days. The first one I ever had was the Blue Cheese Chopped Salad at Outback. Yum!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a table arrangement--too pretty to eat!
ReplyDeleteYummy and refreshing. I heard the same thing about lettuce and not using a knife but have never had a browning problem. Once you put dressing on any kind of lettuce, it doesn't last long anyways. Better to keep it separate then you can store any leftovers.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking salad, it's similar to my Greek salad which has green olives not black and a green pepper not yellow, love summer salads like these.
ReplyDeleteLooks so good and cool and refreshing!! Yes, the humidity has come! Whew! I think they taught us that the lettuce would turn brown with a knife in Home Ec. We were supposed to tear it. I cut mine now, too. No problem. Ha! Stay cool! blessings and hugs ~ tanna
ReplyDeleteDotsie, Chopped salad is a great description. I have turned to more substantial salads as well which I call veggie salad. It contains shredded cabbage on mandolin, grated carrots, red onion, bell peppers, and celery. I see chick peas in yours which is a great addition. I will have to try that. Thanks for sharing. Have great week. Sylvia D.
ReplyDeleteColourful, healthy and delicious. Love this time of year with the fresh veggies coming in. Do you cook your chickpeas or use them from a can? I will open a tin but hubby doesn't care for them so I'm thinking of cooking just what I want from the dried ones.
ReplyDeleteYummy! Look at all those delicious colors. We love chopped salad...so many different ingredient one can use.
ReplyDeleteThe less lettuce the better, in my opinion. Give me all those delicious chopped veggies. Kind of looks a little like what I would call a composed salad. Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteThat is a perfect salad, and I actually have something quite similar very often. I would be happy eating that every day - with no dressing, as long as there are chopped onions in it. And it's so pretty! Love pretty food!
ReplyDeleteWow, that salad looks good! It is not hard to eat well when is served like this and looks so inviting!
ReplyDeleteChopped salad...a new idea for me. A friend at church made one, and prepared it in our church kitchen. He had mixed spring greens, which he chopped with one of those curved blades (which I don't have!) and then added dried cranberries, a yellow cheese, potato sticks....all chopped. I have to admit I ate 3 servings with a tiny bit of Ranch dressing. We'd been sick with a stomach virus a couple of weeks before and were starving for REAL food. Must buy chopper! Yours looks beautiful, as usual. You have the eye. :)
ReplyDeleteI love a good chopped salad and despite it being nearly midnight, now I'm craving one.
ReplyDeleteYum, your salad looks very tasty, Dotsie. :D I do love a good salad, and somehow mine never taste as good as they do somewhere else. Have you ever done shredded lettuce? You cut that with a knife, too, and we like that at our house. Your chopped salad looks very colorful (and healthy too).
ReplyDeleteI hope you and your hubby are having a good summer!
Hugs,
Denise
We finally have decided that chopped is so much easier to eat, therefore it makes us more likely to want salad! The Cobb Salad is traditionally served that way, a favorite of mine.
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