Four Tips for Making the Best Salads at a Salad Bar
With the potential combinations that the salad bar offers, you can get carried away and end up with a wet mishmash of ingredients. These tips will help you balance your salad in both flavor and texture.
In this Stop Doing It Wrong video on the ZAGAT YouTube channel, you will learn a few simple rules of thumb for making the best salads from Tony Schur and Colin McCabe, co-founders of Chopt in New York. Here’s what they offer:
- Don’t use wet salad: salad dressing doesn’t stick well. If possible, dry the damp greens first with a paper towel.
- Choose a theme and stick to it: do not become a victim of the “salad bar syndrome” and add to the salad all you like, just because it is good in itself. Find focus.
- Don’t get overwhelmed by soft ingredients: make sure your salad has equal parts soft and crunchy ingredients.
- Emphasize the salad: It’s always better to dress up the salad and add a little extra dressing than to dress up the salad and ruin it.
Beyond that, Shure and McCabe recommend giving salads great texture, color, flavor, some acidity, cold dressing, some crisp, and always using the finest ingredients.
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