French
Salade Composee (French Composed Salad)
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
- 6 cups mixed lettuce
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 1 carrot, grated
- 4 radishes, sliced
- 1 cup comte cheese, cubed
- 1 tsp dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- 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.
- Arrange the mixed lettuce in a wide bowl or on individual plates.
- 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.
- Scatter the cubed comte cheese over the top.
- Drizzle the vinaigrette over everything just before serving, or pass it at the table so each person dresses their own plate.
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 | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on lettuce, tomato, and comte cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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