My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.
Two ingredients and a “dressing” is a salad.
If no dressing, then three ingredients or more.
Also, chicken caeser salad is a salad, and it has starch/bread.
Also, chicken caeser salad is a salad, and it has starch/bread.
Deconstructed sandwich
I’d say at least 5. I have had many great salads and I have also had salads that were just bowls of lettuce…😂
Only one ingredient: a vegetable. You could be eating a raw unsliced cucumber and it would be a salad.
I’ve often had spinach, some shredded cheese, and a vinaigrette and called it salad.
Are you doing better now? I mean with your mental health.
Her salad did have multiple ingredients.
One. But it needs to be a vegetable AND have dressing AND be chopped into bite sized parts AND be raw.
If any of the previous conditions isn’t met, then you need at least two ingredients.
So, yes, cucumbers and onion with ranch most definitely is a salad.
If it’s dressed and a vegetable, is it just a really wet one?
I don’t know, is it chopped or whole?
Chicken, boiled eggs and mayonnaise is a salad.
Sure, that’s two ingredients, it checks out.
Cut is as a prep step and it becomes a salad.
My favourite salad is good lettuce, sliced onion, salt, red wine vinegar, and olive oil. Also cucumber and onion is multiple ingredients.
To bolster your point I regularly make something I call cucumber onion salad with cucumber, white onion, and oil w herbs, salt and pepper. To me, it’s a salad if it focuses on seasoned raw ingredients, esp vegetables, served cold. There’s also the confusion over things like chicken/tuna/egg deli salads focused on being eaten as a sandwich or w crackers, and Midwest “salads” for which all rules seem to be moot except that it’s likely served cold.
Well, the cube rule of food says anything without a starch/bread is a salad, if you want an absurd authority to point to: https://cuberule.com/
So steak or chocolate are salads and a salad is a nacho, got it!
Potato salad is sad now
This is hilarious! What a beautiful, pointless discussion! I love it! 🤣
Looks at breakdown of the cube rule: Yeah, okay. That all makes perfect sense.
Looks at examples that follow the cube rule: YOU MONSTERS!!
Something in a bowl with a dressing is salad.
- Tomatoes + balsamic + olive oil = salad
- Romaine + Caesar dressing = salad
- Canned tuna + mayo = salad
- Cucumber + rice wine vin + sesame oil = salad
Salad is more fun with multiple ingredients, but everything up there is still salad
Noodles + olive oil + grated Parmesan = salad?
When the doctor tells me to eat more salads, yes
Well, there’s noodle salad. I guess pasta is a hot noodle salad, like cereal in milk is a cold soup.
Only if you put it in a bowl
So by your definition at least two ingredients are required for a salad.
Well, one ingredient is just that ingredient
Yes. Dry lettuce in a bowl is not salad.
https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/non-edible/other-non-edible/honeymoon-salad.html
Dry lettuce in a bowl is a honeymoon salad. Lettuce alone, undressed.
For me a salad is minimum of two uncooked ingredients.
What about potato salad, noodle salad and similar dishes containing cooked components?
Then you need also 2 uncooked ingredients I would say
So German potato salad isn’t a salad then.
2 minium?
- A base, such as lettuce, pasta, boiled potato or rice.
- Some salad-worthy veggie or fruit.
