How to Make Salad & Salad Dressing

Salad Green Selection & Preparing

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All lessons in the How to Make Salad & Salad Dressing section:

Lesson Goals

If you like serving your meals with salad or just love salad all on its own, this is a lesson for you. A delicious salad starts with quality ingredients and a great salad dressing. Salads can be complex or as simple as a few ingredients, such as great salad greens with a quality extra virgin olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar.

In this lesson, we will teach you about the different types of salad greens, how to buy salad greens and how to properly prepare and store salad greens. We’ll also help you understand and experience the different flavors from a variety of different types of salad greens.

At the end of this cooking school lesson, you will be able to:

  • understand the differences between mild, bold and bitter salad greens
  • choose fresh and healthy salad greens
  • understand the importance of drying salad greens
  • know how to properly prepare and store salad greens
  • properly toss a salad

Pre-requisites

None

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Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver