Simple Garden Salad
A crisp, refreshing salad of lettuce, tomato, and cucumber with a properly emulsified vinaigrette - mustard is what binds oil and vinegar into a real dressing instead of two liquids sitting side by side, and salt is what keeps it from tasting flat.
⏱ 10 min🍽 4 servings
lunchveganvegetarianquicksalad
Ingredients
- •1 head lettuce, chopped
- •2 tomatoes, sliced
- •1 cucumber, sliced
- •3 tbsp olive oil
- •1 tbsp vinegar
- •1 tsp dijon mustard
- •Salt to taste
- •Pepper to taste
Steps
- 1.Combine the lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber in a large bowl.
- 2.Whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, mustard, salt, and pepper - mustard is what binds the oil and vinegar into a proper emulsified dressing.
- 3.Toss the salad with the dressing just before serving.