SEC-S20W1 | 1st Course: Salads

I am pleased to participate in gastronomy first course this season ( 20) where the teachers talked about SALAD, its types and how to set the menu for personal portion.

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I will proceed to answer the question given by the teachers;

Yes, I have prepared a 3- course menu at home before and it was made up of veggies as the starter, potato chips and grilled fish as the main course while fruit parfait and yogurt was served as the dessert.

With my experience, I have noticed that when ever we prepare a 3 to 5 course meal at home, it must be for an event.

I only get to prepare 3- course menu during birthday celebration, family get-together and for friends while chilling at home.

For the purpose of this contest, I will pick one type of salad and prepare which is mixed salad.

Since mixed salad have more ingredients than the simple ones, I tried my best to make mine look rich and healthy.

Let's see the ingredients and preparation procedures used;

Ingredients

Mixed Salad Ingredients

• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Cucumber
• Eggs
• Sweet corn
• Mayonnaise
• Sprite

Preparation Process

Step 1: The first step was to wash and boil the eggs using moist heat method.

Boiling eggs

Step 2: I washed my veggies; carrot, cabbage and cucumber while the eggs were boiling. This salad making reminded me of different types of cuts in the kitchen so I started with giving my cabbage chiffonade cut.

Slicing cabbage

Step 3: I used grater to grate the carrots into a light pattern.

grating carrot

Step 4: In this step, I was able to give the cucumber mirepoix cut after peeling out the greenish part and removing the seeds.

Cucumber

Step 5: Using sieve, I drained out water from the sweet corn.

Sweet corn

Step 6: for this salad recipe, you can only use egg whites. I removed the yolk and sliced the white to my desired sizes.

Slicing egg white

I arranged these ingredients in layers in a bowl then put it in the fridge to cool for 15 minutes.

Before putting in the fridge

Step 7: I prepared my salad cream using sprite to smoothen mayonnaise. This will make the salad light and more enjoyable.

Adding sprite to mayonnaise	Process of getting a smooth mixture

Step 8: I added little quantity of the salad to the cream and mixed properly. Here's the final result of my healthy salad.

Mixing salad with the cream	Final look of the salad

After preparing the salad, I proceeded to serve in an attractive and satisfying way. Check the menu below;

Hand written by me

I imagined a 3- course menu where salad is the starter and came up with this;

3-course menu

You can see above that I have salad as the starter , rice and beans jollof prepare with fish as the main dish followed by apple smoothie served as the dessert.

A selfie with the salad

Thank you gastronomy team for this interesting class for week 1. I would like to invite friends (@mvchacin, @josepha and @dequeen) to join the class.