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Salade Composee (French Composed Salad)
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Salade Composee (French Composed Salad) is French home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Whisk together the dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, salt, and pepper in a small bowl, then whisk in the olive oil to make a smooth vinaigrette.
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Arrange the mixed lettuce in a wide bowl or on individual plates.
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Top with the sliced tomatoes, cucumber, grated carrot, and radishes, arranging them in separate little piles the way a French composed salad is traditionally served.
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Scatter the cubed comte cheese over the top.
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Drizzle the vinaigrette over everything just before serving, or pass it at the table so each person dresses their own plate.
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Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salade Composee (French Composed Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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. Salade Composee (French Composed Salad) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Betteraves Vinaigrette (Beetroot with Mustard Vinaigrette) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| 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
- 360 kcal
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 14 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Salade Composee (French 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.
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