How to craft the perfect summer salad

With the summer essentially here, there will be a ton of barbecues to attend as well as dishes to bring with you. One dish that is always put out first, is the salad. For many, the salad course gets lost in the shuffle, but truly paying attention to the details, will get you compliments from everyone at the party!

When creating a salad, the ingredients are always the most important: You want the salad to not only be nutritious but delicious. Deciding your overall theme for your salad whether it’s sweet, tangy, savory, or a combination will help you hone in on the best ingredients for your salad. Having a wide array of fresh fruits and vegetables on hand will leave you with many options. A good salad will be well balanced, with colors, texture and flavor. When making a salad the end product should always be to make it look as aesthetically pleasing as possible and as delicious as possible. Also while creating the perfect salad it is important to incorporate some type of lean meat, like chicken. This will give you that special taste as well as make it more of a filling dish to put it over the edge. To give you salad the best flavor you should marinate the meat you use as well as to make sure the dressing used for the salad compliments well with the consistency of the whole dish and doesn’t overpower it so that it just tastes like dressing the whole time. The last part of creating the perfect salad is the assembly of the salad so that all the ingredients are mixed in just right so that every bite shares the same complexity.

Salads like our Rucala Caprino e Pollo, combine grilled chicken, baby arugula, goat cheese, sundried tomatoes, toasted walnuts, with a balsamic dressing for a sweet and crunchy texture. One of our new salads called Insalata di Mango features baby kale, fresh mango, grilled chicken, quinoa, cherry tomatoes, almonds, shredded mozzarella, with a mango dressing provides a unique sweet and savory experience. Whatever salad  you decide to craft, creating unique flavors and textures using fresh and healthy ingredients is your key to success.

Crafting the perfect salad may seem daunting to some people but with the right ingredients and the right attitude there should be no problem. Salads are meant to be healthy and enjoyable and there is no reason why either of those should be compromised.