Italian

Insalatona (Big Composed Salad)

Name: Insalatona (Big Composed Salad)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 cups mixed salad greens; 1 cup cherry tomatoes; 1 cucumber; 1/4 red onion; 1 can canned tuna, drained; 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp red wine vinegar; 1/4 tsp salt

Giulia @giulia_torino

Insalatona (Big Composed Salad) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Heart healthy Pescatarian Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups mixed salad greens
1 cup cherry tomatoes
1 cucumber
1/4 red onion
1 can canned tuna, drained
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Halve the cherry tomatoes and slice the cucumber and red onion.
Combine the salad greens, tomatoes, cucumber and red onion in a large bowl.
Flake the tuna over the top.
Whisk the olive oil, vinegar and salt together and drizzle over the salad.
Toss well and serve at once.

Watch how to cook Insalatona (Big Composed Salad)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Insalatona (Big Composed Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Insalatona (Big Composed Salad) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Insalatona (Big Composed Salad)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 150 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 11 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 170 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Insalatona (Big Composed Salad) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.