Wash Greens for Greek Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village we'll start by preparing our greens we want to wash them and dry them and get them into the refrigerator to crisp them. Salads are best when the greens are dried and crisp and cold before you add your dressing. If the greens are to wet the dressing will not cling to the salad and you'll have a kind of wet limpy salad. So first thing we'll do is remove the leaves and you can either pull them off like this this is a real sandy head of lettuce, you can either pull them off like that or you can cut them off with your knife. Sometimes with specially with roman you can just cut and make one cut at the bottom and it releases all the leaves on this particular head it's not true. So we'll just pull our leaves off and completely soak them in water you want to soak those leaves so that the all the sand is released. Now what you would do over the sink is that you would run each leaf under the water to make sure all the sand is removed from that. To dry it you can either put it into a colander fitted into a bowl like this after you wash each leaf and simply rinse each one letting the water drain down the leaf. If you did this over the sink you would just be running the water down the leaf to remove all the sand and if your putting it in the colander to drain you want to set the leafs upright like this, so that the water will run down into the colander. "