# How to prepare a green salad

## The essentials

A green salad is a wash in plenty of water, a serious spin-dry and a vinaigrette at the last moment. A badly dried salad waters down the vinaigrette and goes limp.

## Choosing it

Fresh, crisp leaves, a tight heart, no brown edges.

## Preparing it

Cut the core and separate the leaves. Plunge them into plenty of cold water, stir, leave a minute: the sand sinks to the bottom. Lift the leaves out from the top, without pouring the water over them. Spin in a salad spinner, or in a clean tea towel you swing around.

## Cutting it for the dish

- The leaves whole or torn by hand, for a salad.
- Finely sliced, to fill a sandwich or a burger.

## How long it takes

Three minutes.

## Storing it

Washed and well dried, in a container with a sheet of paper towel, three to four days in the fridge.

## Make it tonight

The Caesar salad: the romaine washed, dried and torn.

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