**The Art of Creating the Perfect Salad**

If you like the seeds, do whatever you want but this gives you the best crunch I think. Oh, I had so yummy all right, we're gonna go on with our cucumbers. I like to put the purple onion in between the cucumber in the lettuce cuz it helps you actually see the cucumber's a little bit better but you can layer your salad any way you like. Well, you could leave out anything you like if you don't want onions leave them out doesn't matter it's all good.

And now we're gonna go with cherry tomatoes just gonna you could also put regular Tomatoes doesn't matter but heirloom tomatoes you could put yellow cherry tomatoes mix up the colors really use whatever you have. This is what I had in my fridge today so this is what we're working with just layer those. I really do also like to take like the few seconds to arrange my salad because I don't know, I just think there's something nice about presenting a nice dinner to your family.

I know for me, for sure when I take the two seconds instead of just like throwing everything on my kids are more excited to eat it. Because they see when I make a meal for my husband, I played it properly. I do a nice and I just think it makes the whole meal more appealing to them. And it really does make dinner run smoothly.

Now that it runs smoothly every night, don't think that's not what happens okay, there we go now, I'm going to layer on my grilled chicken ah, does this salad not look amazing? A bright burst of freshness, yumminess, I love salad! It's like one of my favorite things. I would say the worst thing about salad though is making them. Like if somebody could come to my house every day and chop up all the vegetables in arrange it like this for me, I would eat salad all day long.

But that salad is worth it because it's a one-dish meal everything you need isn't it? You have the vegetables, you have the protein, and the chicken. And then we're gonna top it with croutons which are a carb, and it's gonna be amazing. Let's just layer up your chicken get that on there. Oh my gosh, I could eat this whole plate myself.

This is like exactly the kind of food I would want to eat yum yum yum yum. And last but not least our croutons, I'm gonna go take them out of the oven and I will be right back okay. Mike, roots hats are done they are crispy, they smell garlicky, and parsley-ish. Oh, and they are crispy, can you hear that? Yeah, I know you guys could hear that.

Our salad is ready we're just gonna take our croutons up look who's back she could smell it okay, say hi everybody, hey hi, okay you ready we're gonna finish plating up our tots. Sprinkle them all over oh my gosh, this is literally a salad of mine. We got crispy we've got protein we've got vegetables we got lemony goodness also side note wait a few minutes for these to cool.

You're falling baby no you're not gonna fall you're not gonna let you fall you want to taste the salad we get at I'm pretty how yummy it is yeah, she's my Masonic Chris critic so you never know with her. Okay, you taste it, let's mix up the dressing you want to mix it shake shake shake that's the heart heart heart good job.

Okay, let's open it up, you're gonna drizzle it right on top oh my gosh, oh my gosh look at this salad. Hey now it's time for us to eat it right! It looks so pretty across you're not fooling your so bigger but don't do this without me, you're gonna get a little bit of everything on the plate. We got some salad we got to fruit times we got some chicken let's just break this off get a piece of lettuce some cucumbers some onion the Tater Tot, a piece of chicken second it's falling off like it's too much, a one pork okay.

And here we go in for a bike she's excited here baby girl. Yeah, you want to scrunchy one which one do you want oh my gosh this child is amazing the croutots are credible I totally take the place of traditional croutons. The lettuce is crunchy, the cucumber is crispy, the chicken gives you that burst of protein, the dressing is bright it pairs perfectly with the potatoes it's so yummy, it's so delicious.

It's an all-purpose family recipe from little too big it's really yummy right from my kitchen to yours I hope you guys get to make this prisoner one day it was really fun being here with you guys. I wish you all happy cooking and see you next time on kosher comm, I'm Danielle have a great day!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enGethin for those with higher standards hey everyone its Danielle back again on Koecher dot-com with another awesome dinner idea recipe there I go one of my little tots warning around that's what dinnertime looks in my house I don't know what it looks like in your house but I need quick easy delicious super yummy dinners to get me through the day so here we go I have tater tots that I pulled out of the freezer that are not cooked yum yum yum she's ready she's excited she's waiting for her dinner I just cut them in half to make them a little smaller and we are gonna turn these into croutons that's right everybody we're making a grilled chicken salad with croutons so we're just gonna add a little bit of some crushed up garlic to parsley we're gonna top it off with some olive oil don't be stingy and my tater tots are already seasoned but I'm just gonna go in with like a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper because I just can't go without it it feels too far in for me mix that up really good she's gonna add a little bit more garlic come on tons of flavor in here I got my handy-dandy pissed pshhh pshhh pastry brush here I don't know why that feels like a tongue twister even though it's not the same letters and then we're just gonna brush them get them really good and coated we want these to be garlicky we want them to be parsley we want them to be crispy II okay so just keep brushing and brushing and brush it in alright here we go Maggie's back hey mags hey you wanna help me yeah okay come come on one two three yeah we're making croutons for our salad you want you and eat a lid for dinner yeah they're yummy did you say hi to everybody hi hi everybody you want to do it there you go good job this one this one over here brush brush brush let's get a little more brush brush brush and there we go what's all of your crew tats are fully coated in the party do you want more we have to cook it first let's go put it in the oven we're just gonna pop this in a 200 degree oven for a few minutes so they're nice and crispy and crouton like on the outside we will be right back then we're gonna move on to the salad part of this I'm just gonna get this out of the way make fun babe there we go and let's make the salad dressing so here we go I've got another jar I just like to make these things in jars cuz they're easy to store and plus when you shake it up it actually stays closed I don't know did you guys ever try to mix a salad dressing and like one of those cheap plastic tougher words and you mix it and all the sudden starts leaking down the sides I don't know why those things don't seal properly but I guess that's why they're so cheap okay so we're gonna go in with a good amount of garlic be generous cuz it's a garlic lemon dressing we're gonna squeeze in our lemon there we go I'm just keeping my fingertips closed and that's catching all the seeds but it's the letting the juice go right through this is the easiest way to do it also if you want to spill it all over your cutting board an extra good for you to do it but really if you use a bigger jar or Bowl it will all go in okay there we go at the lemming rate and now you can add Dijon mustard into this you can add really anything you want you could add some red wine vinegar you could swap out the lemon for vinegar completely go with whatever you want this is just the easiest dressing I know garlic lemon juice olive oil salt pepper and it's fresh it's delicious the flavors of everything else can be in there and it's super yummy okay so actually I think I'm gonna add one more lemon into here got one for my lemon basket and we're just gonna before I cut it I'm just gonna stuff in it you could see it's like very hard this lemon and it's gonna be hard to juice but if you really press down on it really hard all of your body weight you could feel it sort of like collapsing under you and you could feel the juices flowing now it's nice and soft it's gonna be easier to juice she's gonna cut this in half there we go I'm happening so easily it was such a hard lemon I really thought not so much juice was gonna coming up I think there are other tricks out there like some people say you can put it in the microwave for 10 seconds that's a good trick some people just buy it already juiced that's the easiest trick out there but it's not fresh lemon so you know you want some of you lose them alrighty the last of the lemon and now here's the rule of thumb of vinaigrette this is acid lemon is acidic vinegar is acidic yeah those are your basic acids and we want to balance this out with oil so you want one part acid to two parts oil what does that mean we want to put double the amounts of oil that we put lemon juice I'm just gonna add in my oil and it's pretty easy to see because they separate fill that up now I'm gonna season it up with a good amount of salt I've got a really balance out that lemon and the salt is gonna cut right through the acidity of that some pepper salt and lemon all over my hands that's literally the worst combination since I've cuts all over there you go the most simple easy yummiest freshest vinaigrette delicious could not be easier just gonna cut up my chicken here I have a very simple grilled chicken olive oil fresh crushed garlic salt and pepper that's it nothing else we're keeping the flavors of this salad super simple super clean just gonna go in on an angle slice it up into strips and we're gonna top that on our salad it's gonna be so so sylia okay let's get these strips back on the plate and now let's get our cutting board out of the way here we go I have just regular lettuce that I chopped up you can use anything you want you can throw spinach you could throw sprouts go crazy whatever vegetable you like shredded carrots purple cabbage anything added on top it will all be delicious it's now we're gonna arrange our salad we want this to be really beautiful so I'm gonna go in with layers the first thing I'm gonna do is go in with my purple onions because I love those beautiful babies just sprinkle them on top make sure there's a little bit for every bite and this is really the benefit about serving salad on platters is that you can make sure everything gets equally dispersed and when you grab it you just you know you have everything you don't just sit there and toss it it doesn't look ugly after I really like that either a platter or a very wide bowl anything of that sort is really good for this obviously you want something with a little bit of a lip set it doesn't just fall over okay next thing cucumbers we need to talk about cucumbers cucumber seeds are not good they are a little bit bitter and they are slimy so cut the cucumber in half scoop it out with a spoon and then chop it up that's how I like mine the truth is if you like the seeds do in however you want but this gives you the best crunch I think oh I had so yummy all right we're gonna go on with our cucumbers I like to put the purple onion in between the cucumber in the lettuce cuz it helps you actually see the cucumber's a little bit better but you can layer your salad any way you like well you could leave out anything you like if you don't want onions leave them out doesn't matter it's all good and now we're gonna go with cherry tomatoes just gonna you could also put regular Tomatoes doesn't matter but heirloom tomatoes you could put yellow cherry tomatoes mix up the colors really use whatever you have this is what I had in my fridge today so this is what we're working with just layer those I really do also like to take like the few seconds to arrange my salad because I don't know I just think there's something nice about presenting a nice dinner to your family I know for me for sure when I take the two seconds instead of just like throwing everything on my kids are more excited to eat it because they see when I make a meal for my husband I played it properly I do a nice and I just think it makes the whole meal more appealing to them and it really does make dinner run smoothly more smoothly I should say now that it runs smoothly every night don't think that that's not what happens okay there we go now I'm going to layer on my grilled chicken ah does this salad not look amazing a bright burst freshness yumminess I love salad it's like one of my favorite things I would say the worst thing about salad though is making them like if somebody could come to my house every day and chop up all the vegetables in arrange it like this for me I would eat salad all day long but I think it's the assembling of it but this salad is worth it because it's a one it's a one-dish meal everything you need isn't it you have the vegetables you have the protein and the chicken and then we're gonna top it with the krutov which are a carb and it's gonna be amazing let's just layer up your chicken get that on there oh my gosh I could eat this whole plate myself this is like exactly the kind of food I would I want to eat yum yum yum yum and last but not least our croutons I'm gonna go take them out of the oven and I will be right back okay Mike roots hats are done they are crispy they smell garlicky and parsley ish oh and they are crispy can you hear that yeah I know you guys could hear that our salad is ready we're just gonna take our croutons up look who's back she could smell it okay say hi everybody hey hi okay you ready we're gonna finish plating up our tots sprinkle them all over oh my gosh this is literally a salad of my geraniums we got crispy we've got protein we got vegetables we got lemony goodness also side note wait a few minutes for these to cool you're falling baby no you're not gonna fall you're not gonna let you fall you want to taste the salad we get at I'm pretty how yummy it is yeah she's my Masonic Chris critic so you never know with her okay you taste it let's mix up the dressing you want to mix it shake shake shake that's the heart heart heart good job okay let's open it up you're gonna drizzle it right on top oh my gosh oh my gosh look at this salad hey now it's time for us to eat it right it looks so pretty across you're not fooling your so bigger but don't do this without me you're gonna get a little bit of everything on the plate we got some salad we got to fruit times we got some chicken let's just break this off get a piece of lettuce some cucumbers some onion the Tater Tot a piece of chicken second it's falling off like it's too much a one pork okay and here we go in in for a bike she's excited here baby girl yeah you want to scrunchy one which one do you want oh my gosh this child is amazing the crew tots are credible I totally take the place of traditional croutons the lettuce is crunchy the cucumber is crispy the chicken gives you that burst of protein the dressing is bright it pairs perfectly with the potatoes it's so yummy it's so delicious it's an all-purpose family recipe from little too big it's really yummy right from my kitchen to yours I hope you guys get to make this prisoner one day it was really fun being here with you guys I wish you all happy cooking and see you next time on kosher comm I'm Danielle have a great day bye bye say bye bye bye MA tribu kissesGethin for those with higher standards hey everyone its Danielle back again on Koecher dot-com with another awesome dinner idea recipe there I go one of my little tots warning around that's what dinnertime looks in my house I don't know what it looks like in your house but I need quick easy delicious super yummy dinners to get me through the day so here we go I have tater tots that I pulled out of the freezer that are not cooked yum yum yum she's ready she's excited she's waiting for her dinner I just cut them in half to make them a little smaller and we are gonna turn these into croutons that's right everybody we're making a grilled chicken salad with croutons so we're just gonna add a little bit of some crushed up garlic to parsley we're gonna top it off with some olive oil don't be stingy and my tater tots are already seasoned but I'm just gonna go in with like a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper because I just can't go without it it feels too far in for me mix that up really good she's gonna add a little bit more garlic come on tons of flavor in here I got my handy-dandy pissed pshhh pshhh pastry brush here I don't know why that feels like a tongue twister even though it's not the same letters and then we're just gonna brush them get them really good and coated we want these to be garlicky we want them to be parsley we want them to be crispy II okay so just keep brushing and brushing and brush it in alright here we go Maggie's back hey mags hey you wanna help me yeah okay come come on one two three yeah we're making croutons for our salad you want you and eat a lid for dinner yeah they're yummy did you say hi to everybody hi hi everybody you want to do it there you go good job this one this one over here brush brush brush let's get a little more brush brush brush and there we go what's all of your crew tats are fully coated in the party do you want more we have to cook it first let's go put it in the oven we're just gonna pop this in a 200 degree oven for a few minutes so they're nice and crispy and crouton like on the outside we will be right back then we're gonna move on to the salad part of this I'm just gonna get this out of the way make fun babe there we go and let's make the salad dressing so here we go I've got another jar I just like to make these things in jars cuz they're easy to store and plus when you shake it up it actually stays closed I don't know did you guys ever try to mix a salad dressing and like one of those cheap plastic tougher words and you mix it and all the sudden starts leaking down the sides I don't know why those things don't seal properly but I guess that's why they're so cheap okay so we're gonna go in with a good amount of garlic be generous cuz it's a garlic lemon dressing we're gonna squeeze in our lemon there we go I'm just keeping my fingertips closed and that's catching all the seeds but it's the letting the juice go right through this is the easiest way to do it also if you want to spill it all over your cutting board an extra good for you to do it but really if you use a bigger jar or Bowl it will all go in okay there we go at the lemming rate and now you can add Dijon mustard into this you can add really anything you want you could add some red wine vinegar you could swap out the lemon for vinegar completely go with whatever you want this is just the easiest dressing I know garlic lemon juice olive oil salt pepper and it's fresh it's delicious the flavors of everything else can be in there and it's super yummy okay so actually I think I'm gonna add one more lemon into here got one for my lemon basket and we're just gonna before I cut it I'm just gonna stuff in it you could see it's like very hard this lemon and it's gonna be hard to juice but if you really press down on it really hard all of your body weight you could feel it sort of like collapsing under you and you could feel the juices flowing now it's nice and soft it's gonna be easier to juice she's gonna cut this in half there we go I'm happening so easily it was such a hard lemon I really thought not so much juice was gonna coming up I think there are other tricks out there like some people say you can put it in the microwave for 10 seconds that's a good trick some people just buy it already juiced that's the easiest trick out there but it's not fresh lemon so you know you want some of you lose them alrighty the last of the lemon and now here's the rule of thumb of vinaigrette this is acid lemon is acidic vinegar is acidic yeah those are your basic acids and we want to balance this out with oil so you want one part acid to two parts oil what does that mean we want to put double the amounts of oil that we put lemon juice I'm just gonna add in my oil and it's pretty easy to see because they separate fill that up now I'm gonna season it up with a good amount of salt I've got a really balance out that lemon and the salt is gonna cut right through the acidity of that some pepper salt and lemon all over my hands that's literally the worst combination since I've cuts all over there you go the most simple easy yummiest freshest vinaigrette delicious could not be easier just gonna cut up my chicken here I have a very simple grilled chicken olive oil fresh crushed garlic salt and pepper that's it nothing else we're keeping the flavors of this salad super simple super clean just gonna go in on an angle slice it up into strips and we're gonna top that on our salad it's gonna be so so sylia okay let's get these strips back on the plate and now let's get our cutting board out of the way here we go I have just regular lettuce that I chopped up you can use anything you want you can throw spinach you could throw sprouts go crazy whatever vegetable you like shredded carrots purple cabbage anything added on top it will all be delicious it's now we're gonna arrange our salad we want this to be really beautiful so I'm gonna go in with layers the first thing I'm gonna do is go in with my purple onions because I love those beautiful babies just sprinkle them on top make sure there's a little bit for every bite and this is really the benefit about serving salad on platters is that you can make sure everything gets equally dispersed and when you grab it you just you know you have everything you don't just sit there and toss it it doesn't look ugly after I really like that either a platter or a very wide bowl anything of that sort is really good for this obviously you want something with a little bit of a lip set it doesn't just fall over okay next thing cucumbers we need to talk about cucumbers cucumber seeds are not good they are a little bit bitter and they are slimy so cut the cucumber in half scoop it out with a spoon and then chop it up that's how I like mine the truth is if you like the seeds do in however you want but this gives you the best crunch I think oh I had so yummy all right we're gonna go on with our cucumbers I like to put the purple onion in between the cucumber in the lettuce cuz it helps you actually see the cucumber's a little bit better but you can layer your salad any way you like well you could leave out anything you like if you don't want onions leave them out doesn't matter it's all good and now we're gonna go with cherry tomatoes just gonna you could also put regular Tomatoes doesn't matter but heirloom tomatoes you could put yellow cherry tomatoes mix up the colors really use whatever you have this is what I had in my fridge today so this is what we're working with just layer those I really do also like to take like the few seconds to arrange my salad because I don't know I just think there's something nice about presenting a nice dinner to your family I know for me for sure when I take the two seconds instead of just like throwing everything on my kids are more excited to eat it because they see when I make a meal for my husband I played it properly I do a nice and I just think it makes the whole meal more appealing to them and it really does make dinner run smoothly more smoothly I should say now that it runs smoothly every night don't think that that's not what happens okay there we go now I'm going to layer on my grilled chicken ah does this salad not look amazing a bright burst freshness yumminess I love salad it's like one of my favorite things I would say the worst thing about salad though is making them like if somebody could come to my house every day and chop up all the vegetables in arrange it like this for me I would eat salad all day long but I think it's the assembling of it but this salad is worth it because it's a one it's a one-dish meal everything you need isn't it you have the vegetables you have the protein and the chicken and then we're gonna top it with the krutov which are a carb and it's gonna be amazing let's just layer up your chicken get that on there oh my gosh I could eat this whole plate myself this is like exactly the kind of food I would I want to eat yum yum yum yum and last but not least our croutons I'm gonna go take them out of the oven and I will be right back okay Mike roots hats are done they are crispy they smell garlicky and parsley ish oh and they are crispy can you hear that yeah I know you guys could hear that our salad is ready we're just gonna take our croutons up look who's back she could smell it okay say hi everybody hey hi okay you ready we're gonna finish plating up our tots sprinkle them all over oh my gosh this is literally a salad of my geraniums we got crispy we've got protein we got vegetables we got lemony goodness also side note wait a few minutes for these to cool you're falling baby no you're not gonna fall you're not gonna let you fall you want to taste the salad we get at I'm pretty how yummy it is yeah she's my Masonic Chris critic so you never know with her okay you taste it let's mix up the dressing you want to mix it shake shake shake that's the heart heart heart good job okay let's open it up you're gonna drizzle it right on top oh my gosh oh my gosh look at this salad hey now it's time for us to eat it right it looks so pretty across you're not fooling your so bigger but don't do this without me you're gonna get a little bit of everything on the plate we got some salad we got to fruit times we got some chicken let's just break this off get a piece of lettuce some cucumbers some onion the Tater Tot a piece of chicken second it's falling off like it's too much a one pork okay and here we go in in for a bike she's excited here baby girl yeah you want to scrunchy one which one do you want oh my gosh this child is amazing the crew tots are credible I totally take the place of traditional croutons the lettuce is crunchy the cucumber is crispy the chicken gives you that burst of protein the dressing is bright it pairs perfectly with the potatoes it's so yummy it's so delicious it's an all-purpose family recipe from little too big it's really yummy right from my kitchen to yours I hope you guys get to make this prisoner one day it was really fun being here with you guys I wish you all happy cooking and see you next time on kosher comm I'm Danielle have a great day bye bye say bye bye bye MA tribu kisses\n"