Cauliflower Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prepare the cauliflower as you would for serving as a vegetable.
Drain it carefully and place it on ice for several hours before serving.
Serve
When ready to serve, pour mayonnaise dressing over the cauliflower.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Cauliflower
- Forms the crisp, mild-flavoured base of the salad that the dressing coats.
- Mayonnaise dressing
- Adds richness, moisture and tang that coats the cauliflower pieces.
The step that matters
Draining the cauliflower carefully before chilling. Excess water left on the cauliflower dilutes the mayonnaise dressing and makes it watery and loose once poured on. Draining well keeps the dressing thick and clinging to the florets.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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