My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.
Oxford dictionary says:
Originally derived from the Latin sal for salt, meaning something dipped into salt. Now normally a dish of uncooked vegetables; either a mixed salad or just one item (commonly lettuce or tomato).
Cut is as a prep step and it becomes a salad.
My favourite salad is good lettuce, sliced onion, salt, red wine vinegar, and olive oil. Also cucumber and onion is multiple ingredients.
To bolster your point I regularly make something I call cucumber onion salad with cucumber, white onion, and oil w herbs, salt and pepper. To me, it’s a salad if it focuses on seasoned raw ingredients, esp vegetables, served cold. There’s also the confusion over things like chicken/tuna/egg deli salads focused on being eaten as a sandwich or w crackers, and Midwest “salads” for which all rules seem to be moot except that it’s likely served cold.
Something in a bowl with a dressing is salad.
- Tomatoes + balsamic + olive oil = salad
- Romaine + Caesar dressing = salad
- Canned tuna + mayo = salad
- Cucumber + rice wine vin + sesame oil = salad
Salad is more fun with multiple ingredients, but everything up there is still salad
So by your definition at least two ingredients are required for a salad.
Yes. Dry lettuce in a bowl is not salad.
https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/non-edible/other-non-edible/honeymoon-salad.html
Dry lettuce in a bowl is a honeymoon salad. Lettuce alone, undressed.
Noodles + olive oil + grated Parmesan = salad?
Well, there’s noodle salad. I guess pasta is a hot noodle salad, like cereal in milk is a cold soup.
When the doctor tells me to eat more salads, yes
Only if you put it in a bowl
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Carrot salad is just shredded carrots with dressing made from mustard mixed with oil, but I’d challenge you to take a bite of that and tell me it’s not a salad.
Now mix up uncut baby carrots, celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, and cucumber slices. I’ll give you a bowl of ranch, and if you pour it in try to eat it like a salad instead of using them as dip, there’s something wrong with you
Salads aren’t about ingredient counts, they’re about preparation
I mean when you put chopped iceberg lettuce and tomatoes, it’s a salad… So… Two?
I would lettuce + cucumber, too. Begrudgingly, but I would accept it.
If i chop up a cucumber and throw it in a bowl with some vinegarette, I call it a cucumber salad.
tomato, tomatoe. Not that I’d ever put tomatoes in a cucumber salad. That’s heathen shit.
If I cut a slice of pizza in half and add ranch, can I also call that a salad?
I’m not your boss. Do it up, man.
Salad because pizza is classed as a vegetable in your country?
Heterogenous chunks served around or below room temperature are a salad. To be heterogenous, there must be at least two different things, so… two is the minimum, dressing doesn’t count towards the total.
Cucumber slices with tajín? Not a salad.
Cucumber, tomato, and red onion dressed with tahini? Jerusalem salad.
Tuna mixed with mayonnaise? Not tuna salad.
Tuna mixed with celery and mayonnaise? Tuna salad (barely).
Lime jello? Not a salad.
Lime jello cut into cubes mixed with orange jello cut into cubes? Jello salad.
Cranberries stewed with spices and sugar? Not a salad, cranberry sauce.
Cranberry sauce mixed with mandarin oranges, cut pineapple, and walnuts, set into a bundt-shaped jello mold? Cranberry salad.
If I heat pasta salad in the microwave, is it no longer a salad? Is a leftover portion of pasta a salad before it is reheated? I’m not sure temperature is a requirement.
Also I have to question calling two flavours of Jello “different things”, let alone calling 2 flavours of gelatine a salad, but I know Americans are more liberal with the word salad than other places.
Where I am you will rarely see the word salad used in relation to dishes that don’t contain some raw chopped vegetables, especially leafy green ones. Or it’s the dish’s imported original name, like potato salad. Fruit salad is the one exception to that, I think.
I could see an argument that past a certain temperature, you are now just eating pasta.
This is the answer. Confirmed.
I think the temperature doesn’t work as part of the definition. If you’ve never had it, Taco Salad is served hot (the meat at least is, and usually the tortilla bowl is as well).
And some potato salads are served warm
I would argue that Jello cubes in whipped cream could be a basic Jello salad. That’s two ingredients, but it’s also arguably an instance of a one-ingredient salad, since the whipped cream dressing doesn’t count.
Only one ingredient: a vegetable. You could be eating a raw unsliced cucumber and it would be a salad.
2 minium?
- A base, such as lettuce, pasta, boiled potato or rice.
- Some salad-worthy veggie or fruit.
it’s a salad, it’s just a terrible one
Cucumber and onion with a vinaigrette though is a delicious salad.
I’d say at least 5. I have had many great salads and I have also had salads that were just bowls of lettuce…😂
