Salad with vegetable oil - 797 cooking recipes

Most often, fresh vegetables that are not heat-treated are added to salads with vegetable oil. These are tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, onions or green onions, greens, radishes, various types of cabbage, lettuce, carrots. But many mayonnaise-averse people also prefer to season their salads directly with vegetable oil, despite the fact that this sauce also contains it.

How to make salad dressing with vegetable oil more delicious? To do this, the oil must be mixed with vinegar (any, from table vinegar, apple vinegar to balsamic), salt, ground pepper and other dry spices. You can also add other ready-made sauces (such as soy), garlic, various seeds (dill, flax, sesame, etc.) to this dressing.

In different types of Korean salads, they add vegetable oil heated in a frying pan, flavored with a whole set of specific spices characteristic of Korean cuisine. When spices are heated, it helps them better infuse the oil with their aromas and flavors. As a result, any salad, not only from fresh, but also from boiled vegetables, as well as meat, fish and seafood, turns out doubly tasty.

What vegetable oil is good to add to salads? Most people prefer olive oil. But even here, not all its types are good; there is an ideal, namely: unrefined, first cold-pressed, which is called extra virgin (this must be written on the bottle). It costs more, but the salad with it turns out rich, bright, and rich.

The salad can be dressed with sunflower oil, refined or not. There are fans of the first type - when the oil has a pronounced smell and taste of seeds. In Russia, the majority of the population uses sunflower oil because of its availability and, one might say, genetic habit))

What is the healthiest vegetable oil for salad? This is a moderately complex question, the answer to which will not be clear. If only because the concept of “benefit” is different for everyone. There are only a few types of oil that are useful in different areas and have proven themselves in salad recipes. These are: pumpkin, flax, corn, sea buckthorn, mustard and soy.