In summer, all we love is to gather around a table outdoors and enjoy dishes to share. And among all the possibilities, summer salad comes in pole position.
How to make a summer salad
The good recipe for an easy summer salad
In summer, the advantage is that you don’t have to worry too much about cooking, as most foods wreak havoc when eaten raw. Green salad, crunchy radish, sliced cucumber and zucchini, fresh herbs, sunny tomatoes, spring onions, small berries, raw food has it all! Obviously, it is not imperative to prepare a 100% raw salad, you can include cooked or already prepared foods such as hard-boiled or soft-boiled eggs, condiments – capers, gherkins, preserved lemon, homemade vegetable pickles – cold cuts, smoked fish, mozzarella balls, pieces of intensely flavoured cheese – Abondance, Comté, Bleu – and the list goes on.
What about sweet and salty summer salad?
It’s a fact, the French love sweet and sour! A harmonious blend of smoky meat and the syrupy juice of a summer fruit, between sheep’s cheese and black cherry jam like in the Basque Country, or the famous goat’s cheese and honey duo, the combinations are endless. And summer salad is no exception to this penchant. Fresh goat’s cheese balls combined with grapes, juicy strawberries served with burrata and intense olive oil, or fresh apple to pair with camembert for an explosive duo, summer salad in a sweet and sour version, we say yes!
And because nothing beats the great classics like Niçoise salad, tabbouleh, or even tomato-mozzarella, let’s take a closer look at these 10 recipes revisited by chefs to rediscover the summer salad in an upgraded version.
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