Name: The Garden Salad Recipe
Prep time: 7 min
Total time: 7 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Western
Ingredients: 1 small head iceberg lettuce or other lettuce or leafy greens , chopped into big bite size pieces (5 to 6 big handfuls); 1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes, halved (~125g/4oz), or 2 tomatoes cut into wedges or chunks; 1 cucumber , sliced (medium Lebanese / Persian cucumber, or 1/2 long Telegraph/English cucumber); 1 carrot , peeled and grated using a box grater; 1 tsp parsley or chives , very finely chopped (if you’re feeling fancy!); 1 tbsp cider vinegar (or any vinegar or lemon juice) (Note 1); 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (or other neutral oil); 1/2 tsp Dijon Mustard (or other non spicy smooth mustard); 1/2 tsp cooking/kosher salt (or 1/4 tsp table salt); 1/2 tsp black pepper

Presenting my old-school Backyard Salad! Yep, the one I could make any day as a result of I at all times have these greens readily available. Generally, I even get actual fancy and add a sprinkle of parsley. 😳

There actually are not any guidelines in terms of a Backyard Salad. Any greens and any greens will do, all tied along with a traditional and easy salad dressing. Make this your individual!

Garden salad in a bowl ready to be eaten — The Garden Salad Recipe

Ordinarily I write an introduction concerning the recipe I’m sharing. However I discover myself caught to provide you with one thing witty or some again story about Backyard Salad.

I want I might say this salad is made with crisp natural greens recent from my backyard. I would like to have the ability to let you know that this was the one salad my hardworking mom knew make after I was rising up and thus has a particular place carved in my coronary heart.

I need to at least give you the chance let you know that this model is the definitive, the traditional, the unique, the real-deal backyard salad.

However I’ve nothing. No authority on this matter, and no sentimental backstory. That is simply my fundamental on a regular basis salad that I make “on a regular basis”, for no different cause than it’s made with probably the most pedestrian of veggies that at all times appear to seek out their method into my purchasing basket, week after week!

Little doubt you make the same salad, as does the vast majority of households within the nation. Backyard Salad: the good leveller! 😂

The Garden Salad Recipe — My on a regular basis salad dressing

Pouring dressing over Garden salad — My on a regular basis salad dressing

So, that mentioned and completed, listed below are the standard issues that I put in my Backyard Salad.

Nicely, I received’t lie. Iceberg lettuce doesn’t at all times make my purchasing trolley as of late as a result of it simply appears so, properly, eighties! 😂 It’s fairly common when in season although as a result of it’s crunchy, candy and admittedly fairly damned scrumptious even when it’s about as trendy as a large, hair sprayed perm. If not iceberg lettuce, I’ll at all times have some type of leafy greens in my fridge.

What to put in a Garden salad — The Garden Salad Recipe

Big bowl of Garden salad — The Garden Salad Recipe

The dressing I take advantage of is my fundamental salad dressing: 1 half vinegar to three components olive oil, thickened with Dijon Mustard so it emulsifies and clings to the salad higher, merely seasoned with salt and pepper.

There’s all kinds of additional flavouring choices accessible to you if you wish to improve your Backyard Salad, together with garlic, lemon zest, dried or recent herbs. And I’ve listed some ideas within the recipe notes.

However at its core, that is the essential salad dressing that I take advantage of “on a regular basis”.

And that, my pals, is all I’ve to say about my Backyard Salad.

Gee, I want all recipes I shared might be this brief and to the purpose! 😂

His large head at all times pops over with curiosity at any time when he hears the rustle of a paper bag within the entrance seat…

The Garden Salad Recipe

The Garden Salad Recipe