Vegetable and Chef Salad

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Hi! My name is Kathy Maister…Welcome to Startcooking.com

Today I’m going to show you how to make a vegetable salad…then we’re going to add a few extras and turn it into a fabulous chef salad.

So go grab a knife…
A cutting board…
A vegetable peeler…
And a salad bowl
And we’ll be ready to startcooking!

The basic Ingredients I’m using today are:

Lettuce
A Red Pepper
2 Celery stalks
Some cherry tomatoes
Some Green Onion
A Cucumber and
2 Carrots

The first step is to wash the vegetables we are going to be using.

We also need to peel the carrots…

and the cucumbers.

Remember…always peel away from your body…no matter what you’re peeling

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Now, I’m going to chop the lettuce into bite size pieces.

The red pepper is first cut in half, ...

...then the stem and seeds are removed.

Now cut it into strips …

...and then it gets coarsely chopped.

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  I have 3 different types of cucumber.

  This little one is a called a pickling cucumber…you can just slice it without peeling it.

  This one is called an English cucumber…it has very tiny seeds inside and it doesn’t have to be peeled.

  This is just a regular cucumber.

  They all taste pretty much the same…and they add a nice crunch to the salad. I think I’ll add the pickling cukes to my salad.

Next we are going to slice two carrots and add them to our salad

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We need to trim the ends off the celery.

then slice the celery into about ¼ inch slices.

Now for the tomatoes

I love Cherry tomatoes be sure to cut them in half or they tend to go flying across the room when you try to stab them with your fork.

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Green onions great on salads.

The green part has a very mild flavor and the white part gets much stronger.

Trim the ends off …then cut them into about three inch strips.

Clump them together and start slicing!

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  Now just add some dressing, just before you serve you salad!

  If we wanted to turn this into a chef salad just add some extras.

  Chicken
  Ham
  Shredded cheese
  Bacon bits
  Hard cooked eggs
  Kidney beans or chickpeas
  Even some leftover boiled potatoes!

  That’s what’s great about a chef salad…you can toss in whatever you like, add some dressing and you’ve got yourself a meal.

  Enjoy!