Complex Salads

Prerequisites

Before studying this chapter, you should already

• Have read “How to Use This Book,”, and understand the professional recipe format.
• Know how to perform basic meat, poultry, and seafood preparation and cooking methods.

Salad is a broad term encompassing a staggering variety of dishes, making it difficult for chefs to agree on the correct way to classify the various types. In Chapter 3 you learned about simple salads and tossed salads, both made primarily from leafy greens. In a wider sense, salad refers to virtually any mixture of cold foods that is enhanced with a tart, tangy sauce or dressing.