Cooking School Lesson

Salad Greens | Selecting & Preparing

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Lesson Snapshot:

  • 1 instructional video
  • 12 practice recipes
  • 22 tip and technique videos
  • interactive quiz

Lesson Description & Goals

Fresh and crisp salad greens are a healthy and refreshing part of a balanced diet. These days, the markets are filled with an array of vibrant greens. One can literally make a unique salad every day of the week that will vary in color, composition and flavor. By using a variety of greens, salads will not only look visually stunning, but they will taste great.

In this lesson, you will learn how to choose and identify an assortment of salad greens. You will learn how to clean and refresh greens and how to dry and store them. You will also learn how to properly dress and toss a salad and how to combine greens in order to compose different salads.

Gone are the days of boring salads. By having a supply of clean, seasonal greens in the refrigerator, you will be inspired to put together a fresh, crisp and healthy salad on a regular basis. Whether served as a whole meal or a simple side, salads are easy to work into your cooking repertoire.

  • 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

Lesson Practice Recipes

This lesson includes access to the following text & instructional video recipes

Spinach Salad w/ Goat Cheese and a Maple Walnut Vinaigrette

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

Spinach, walnuts and goat cheese served with a warm maple Dijon and walnut vinaigrette.

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Salade Lyonnaise

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

A classic French bistro salad. Baby frisée, bacon, a poached egg and home made croûtons are tossed with a Dijon vinaigrette.

Comments: 3 Views: 13487 Success: 94%

Belgian Endive Salad

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

Layers of endive topped with fresh dates, crumbled blue cheese, toasted walnuts and drizzled with a delicious Dijon vinaig...

Comments: 12 Views: 9278 Success: 99%

Warm Salmon Salad Niçoise

by Christophe K in Rouxbe Recipes

Inspired by the South of France, the combination of flavors in this Niçoise salad are amazing.

Comments: 36 Views: 19743 Success: 96%

Mint Pea and Endive Salad

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

This is a fantastic fresh salad with avocado, endive, romaine lettuce, peas and a beautiful mint and Dijon mustard vinaigr...

Comments: 3 Views: 6238 Success: 99%

Shrimp Mango Salad

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

A healthy and delicious salad finished with an orange cilantro cumin dressing.

Comments: 9 Views: 6765 Success: 99%

Orange and Watercress Salad

by Joe G in Rouxbe Recipes

Fresh and healthy greens are tossed in a tangy citrus vinaigrette.

Comments: 4 Views: 9506 Success: 100%
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Spinach Salad with Black Quinoa & Pomegranate

by Kimberley S in Rouxbe Recipes

This wholesome spinach salad is sprinkled with black quinoa, pomegranate seeds, toasted almonds, feta cheese and is finish...

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Serrano Ham and Heart of Palm Salad

by Kimberley S in Rouxbe Recipes

Serrano ham, heart of palm, fresh mozzarella and Manzanilla olives dress up tender butter lettuce.

Comments: 0 Views: 2971 Success: 100%
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Pear, Blue Cheese Salad w/ Easy Vinaigrette

by Patrick O in Rouxbe Recipes

A simple yet elegant way to dress salad greens with basic, on-hand ingredients. Use with all bitter and/or spicy greens. A...

Comments: 1 Views: 3618 Success: 0%
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Warm Wheat Berry, Mushroom, Tomato & Arugula Salad

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

This hearty, warm salad of wheat berries, sauteed mushrooms, oven-dried tomatoes and arugula is full of flavor.

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Soy-Sesame Salad w/ Wild Mushrooms

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

Tender salad greens and sauteed wild mushrooms are tossed with a soy-sesame vinaigrette. Topped with crunchy shoestring po...

Comments: 1 Views: 4307 Success: 100%

What People are Saying

Margie E
More likely to have a salad.
Great lesson on having the greens clean and in the fridge so you are more likely to have a salad. I do that on our sailboat all the time so the greens last longer; now I'll do i... More >>
Siraj A
I love to eat salad.
It was a nice lesson. I love to eat salad, green salad with italian olive oil. I am a food lover from Maldives. Eat healthy and be always happy.

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