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.
Cut is as a prep step and it becomes a salad.
There is tomato salad. Just tomatoes, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
I’ll raise you some mozzarella.
One. But it needs to be a vegetable AND have dressing AND be chopped into bite sized parts AND be raw.
If any of the previous conditions isn’t met, then you need at least two ingredients.
So, yes, cucumbers and onion with ranch most definitely is a salad.
If it’s dressed and a vegetable, is it just a really wet one?
Can we first define “salad”?
If it’s cold ingredients, mixed together, then wilted iceberg lettuce and a gas station dressing packet is salad.
So two.
German potato salad is served hot. A salad is literally just any ingredients mixed together.
I‘m German and have eaten a lot of potato salad during my entire life. Not once has it been served hot
Not hot but „lauwarm“ or „lukewarm“ is very typical for same day fresh potato salad
At least down here in the south
I would argue the minimum number of ingredients is two.
Tuna and mayo?
Tuna and mayo it is.
Ham, cheese, and mayo?
Ham, cheese, and mayo it is.
Two ingredients must be present for something to be a salad - a vegetable and a dressing. I make all sorts of salads. Some have lettuce, some don’t. I make salad with just fennel and an oil/vinegar dressing. I make salad with tomatoes & cucumbers with a dressing. What she ate was 100% a salad. This is a weird fight.
How do you feel about chicken or tuna salad?
Even fruit salad is out by this definition.
Merriam Webster says :
*any of various usually cold dishes: such as
a: raw greens (such as lettuce) often combined with other vegetables and toppings and served especially with dressing
b: small pieces of food (such as pasta, meat, fruit, or vegetables) usually mixed with a dressing (such as mayonnaise) or set in gelatin*
As such, even just cucumber would suffice.
Edit: in dutch, a “salade” has to accompanied by a dressing or vinaigrette, thus very much limiting what a salad is.
Just cucumber with yoghurt, some chopped dill, salt pepper and olive oil is a great salad. Add lots of garlic and it’s a simple
ZazikiTsazikiZatzikigreek garlic dip.But that’s six ingredients! And you have to chop the cucumber as well. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
You could also use pre-mixed yoghurt dressing but I like to be fancy sometimes.
For me a salad is minimum of two uncooked ingredients.
What about potato salad, noodle salad and similar dishes containing cooked components?
Then you need also 2 uncooked ingredients I would say
