Dry Greens for Greek Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village now I'll show you a few ways to dry your lettuce you want to dry your lettuce so that the dressing will adhere to the leaves if your lettuce is to wet then you'll just end up with soggy salad. So one way to dry it is to lay a clean dish towel down and just lay your leaves out on that like that. And you can just take another dish towel and lay it over and just sort of pat that dry. So after you dried your leaves you would put it either in a plastic bag or a plastic container and place that in the refrigerator to crisp but you want to get most of the water off of it. You can also shake it around a bit like this on a cloth to just try to remove as much as the water as possible. So I'll put that aside another way of course is to use a salad spinner and a salad spinner uses systematical force to pull the water off of the leaves. So you simply put your leaves into the basket like this and mine has to line up with a special side over here and you spin the leaves. It goes rather fast and what should happen is water should be pulled out of the leaves and this is a pretty efficient way to dry your lettuce leaves. There's a quit of bit of water there and then this you can dump the access water and put the lettuce right back into the lettuce spinner and store the lettuce in the refrigerator like this to crisp."