Making a good salad
By verisimilitude •
I've been trying to make a good garden salad for a while now but it doesn't measure up with the stuff dished out at good restaurants. I am not talking about the dressings, even down to the basic ingredients like the vegetables, especially the greens like iceberg lettuce, mushrooms etc... I tried buying fresh vegetables the same day but not getting it right... Should I be buying from somewhere specific? or from a specific food section?
Does anyone have any tips?
jeroenb... those were exactly the kind of tips I was hoping for... thanks a ton...
Nomerci, greenbox is very very interesting..
http://www.the-box.me/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=41...
and coming to think of it, QAR 30 per kg is still less than what I am paying for when I buy the same salad at a restaurant...
yv2r... would have done that but I understand that's a favorite MOI spot for spot checks!! I have lost my bataqa :-D
BTW... for those who are interested, we got cherry tomatoes growing in our backyard in Qatar... and even iceberg lettuce!... the tomatoes were nice, can't say the same about the lettuce though...
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Try to go to Vegetable market next to fish market near salwa, dont go on Thursday & Saturday
There is also a service called Green Box, that delivers a box of fruit and veg once a week to your house. Those veg and fruit are grown in Europe, are fresh and tasty. It is quite expensive though. They also deliver fresh poultry, it is also much better than what is available here.
What comes around, goes around....
In most supermarkets you can find good Dutch and Spanish ice berg lettuce. Make sure its green and not brown. Mushrooms shoud be as white as can be unless you use tasty brown coloured mushrooms (i cant think of the proper name right now) but the have the same shape as a regular mushroom.
Its important to dry the lettuce completely after you wash it!
Wash the mushrooms BEFORE you cut them and do not soak them in wather this will eliminate the taste/
Roast some nuts in a skillet to add to the salad/
Use some walnut oil or plain oil and vinegar.
Use the small cherry tomatoes
Hope this is usefull.
Jeroen
Best to grow your own. I do.:)
What comes around, goes around....
I am a regular at Lulu, FFC and Carrefour... I've tried everything except the ethnic vegetables section... you know where they charge you like 30QAR/kg for tomatoes... but I am now willing to try that even... anything beats paying QAR 20+ for a green salad two times a day... which I am doing right now!!!
I am beginning to wonder if I should buy vegetables based on the origin...
I know for instance that McDonald's often grows its vegetables on its own farms...
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Have u ever tried shopping in LULU or carrefour??
The trick is to find the freshest ingredients and use cheese & full fat dressings.
literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco
ya FFC, Indian supermarket, and one more vegetable market is there near Mcdonald in Airport road a big shp try there....
did u try FFC for fresh vegetables ?