this slide includes about different salad and dressing

1. Salad
and
dressings

2. SALAD??
Salad is a nutritous cold food that is made with
vegetables, fruits, nuts cereals, meat, fish or poultry
along with highly flavoured dressing
Salad are usually served cold which is low in cholestrol
but high in nutrition
In hotel salad are prepared by cold kitchen i.e, larder
kitchen
Salads can be served as accompaniment, starter or
separate salad in a course
Salad helps in getting unfulfilled nutrition absence in
main dishes

3. Characteristics of a good salad
 Salad should be served cold only
 Vegetables and fruits used in salad should be crisp
 Aromatic Herbs used for salad provides more
flavours if its fresh
 Colour combination in a salad should be made
proper for eye appealing
 Ingredients used for salads should be fresh
 Salad should be well seasoned

4. Types of Salad
 Simple Salad
Those salad which consist
entirely with single kind of
ingredients like vegetables
only or fruits only with liquid
dressings is called simple
salad

5. Types of Salad
 Compound Salad
Those salad which consist two
or more than two kind of
ingredients is called
compound salad

6. Component of Salad
Base
BodyDressing
Garnish

7. Base
 Base is the lower most part of a salad where
salad is portioned in an attractive way
 Base also helps in retaining moisture, dressing of
a salad
 In a salad base may be kept as lettuce leaves,
cabbage leaves, watermelon shell, pine apple
shell etc.

8. Body
 Body is a main component of salad that contains
the main ingredient of salad
 Salad also get name from the body of a salad.
Eg: Tuna salad where tuna fish will be kept as a
body

9. Dressing
 Dressing is a blend of different liquid, semi liquid
substance, herbs and seasoning that adds taste
and flavour to a salad
 Dressing should match the ingredients used for
salad otherwise dressing may curdle
 Dressing helps in digestion, improves palatability
and provides food value
 Some famous dressing are as follows
 Mayonnaise dressing
 Acidulated dressing
 Viniagrette

10. Garnish
 Garnish is attractive cut of fruits and vegetables
to make salad more appealing
 Some time garnish can also be a body of salad

11. Identify the components here
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