Hot Salads How-Tos

How To: Make Laotian spicy noodle salad with Kai

If you like your Asian noodles fried and spicy, you should try this Laotian spicy noodle salad (Kow poot nam jeo). You will need shrimp paste, sugar, fish sauce, lime, garlic, chilies, cherry tomatoes, and rice stick noodles. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make Laotian spicy noodle salad with Thai chef Kai.

How To: Make tomato basil salad

In this video series, learn how to make a delicious tomato mozzarella salad. Our expert, Richard Buccola, shows you everything you need to know to make this delicious dish. Richard shows you how to cut the tomatoes and cheese for the salad.

How To: Make flavorful and healthy quinoa salad

A fresh robust salad made with quinoa, lettuce, green and red cabbage, garlic sprouts, carrots and a thick and flavorful dressing made from vegetable broth and olive oil. Watch and see just how to toss these ingredients together into a great quinoa salad.

How To: Prepare a low calorie fruit salad

In this video you will learn how to count the calories for this tasty and healthy treat, as well as how to slice a variety of fruit for your salad. You will also get easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to prepare a gelatin mixture for this fruit salad recipe.

How To: Make green salad with peanut dressing

For this Thai salad dressing you will need coconut milk, masaman curry paste, fish sauce or light soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, chunky peanut butter and water. For the salad you will need wonton skins, vegetable oil, pressed tofu, romaine lettuce, ice berg lettuce, cucumber, red onion, tomatoes and green onions. Make green salad with peanut dressing.

How To: Prepare a Thai spicy tuna salad

This is a delicious tuna salad. It is perfect to serve in the summer. You will need solid white tuna, lime juice, salt, fish sauce, Thai chili peppers, fresh ginger root, red onion, green onions, cilantro, fresh roasted peanuts and iceberg lettuce. Prepare a Thai spicy tuna salad.

How To: Make spring pea and stellette pasta salad

Chef John wants to celebrate tender and sweet spring peas, and delicate star-shaped pasta (Stellette) in a simple salad, and he is not going to clutter it up trying to clean out the vegetable bins. Everything about this salad is subtle. The tender peas barely get cooked by sitting in the hot pasta for a few minutes. The dressing is nothing more than some lemon and oil.

How To: Make circus peanut salad

Circus Peanut Salad! Happy Valentine's Day! Jolene Sugarbaker The Trailer Park Queen whips up a tasty Gelatin Salad for Valentine's Day! In this episode of The Trailer Park Cooking Show, Jolene makes a great dessert gelatin salad using Circus Peanuts!

How To: Make an easy Thai cucumber salad

If you like cucumbers, then you'll love this unique Asian salad tossed in a tangy Thai dressing. You will need fresh basil leaves, fresh coriander leaves, lime, shallot, small red chili pepper, cucumbers, green onions, fish sauce, shrimp paste or sauce, soy or tamari sauce, a grater, a food chopper and a chef's knife.

How To: Make rustic jicama salad

Chef Rick Bayless demonstrates how to make rustic jicama salad; a colorful and tasty salad perfect for an appetizer. This recipe includes blanched onions and fresh ground spices. Make rustic jicama salad.

How To: Make heart of palm salad

Chef Mark Militello demonstrates how to make hearts of palm salad; the crunchy, exotic, heart of a palm tree is united with an aromatic vegetable broth to form a unique salad. Make heart of palm salad.

How To: Prepare northern-style macaroni salad

A delicious macaroni salad recipe is something you will enjoy for years to come. Bring this tried and true northern-style version to your next cookout or picnic. You will need: elbow macaroni, green pepper, plum tomato, yellow onion and mayonnaise.

How To: Make a chicken salad

Franklin Chef Becker shows you how to prepare a great chicken salad with off the shelf products. To make this salad, wash your lettuce, then add lemon juice, vinegar and olive oil. Mix peppers, cucumbers, scallions, salad, and chicken to complete this low carbohydrate dish for health watchers. Don't ingest any e-coli.

How To: Make flavorful and simple potato salad

The perfect side dish for a picnic or dinner, potato salad can be flavored in a variety of ways. See how to make a simple potato salad that you can modify with your favorite flavors. Ingredients needed are potatoes, eggs, onion, celery, fresh dill, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper to taste.

How To: Make a Greek salad

If it's warm outside, cool down with a fresh Greek salad. This zesty mix of vegetables, olives, and feta cheese is hearty enough to be a meal. For this recipe, you will need: ripe tomatoes, red onion, green bell pepper, cucumber, feta cheese, dried oregano, salt, olivew oil, kalamata olives and water.