Restaurant Secret for Tastier Salads: Add Salt
If you’ve ever wondered why your homemade salads don’t taste as good as those sold in restaurants, you may be missing one simple secret ingredient: salt.
Even if you want to add a dressing to your salad, you may feel that yours is tasteless and the greens are less crunchy. Faith Duran of The Kitchn explains that in most restaurants, salads are sprinkled with a lot of salt:
A great salad almost always contains salt – and often more than you might expect. In most good restaurants, salad is seasoned carefully — probably by adding salt and pepper directly to the herbs, not just the dressing.
Depending on how much you sprinkle with your herbs, lettuce can negate some of the health benefits. However, if all you want is flavor, your salads will definitely taste better. For some, this may seem like obvious advice, but for those who are learning to cook a delicious meal at home, it can change the rules of the game.
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