Introducing Food52’s Tournament of Salads: Lettuce Play

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A salad can imply something. Butter lettuce, farro, favas, a jar of tuna—it’s arduous to consider an ingredient that doesn’t “belong” in a salad. It’s as easygoing as a dish can get, particularly in spring, prime salad-making season, which makes it the proper topic of our first Food52 recipe match.

We all know you’re keen on competitions, and this one options a few of our favourite salad recipes from our neighborhood, cookbook authors, and cooks. Just one will probably be topped the champion. Will it’s a Caesar? A wedge? One thing you’ve by no means made earlier than? Let’s discover out, collectively.

The primary spherical is straightforward—winnow the sphere of 16 salads to eight by casting your vote beneath. (If you wish to be extra-thorough and educate your self in regards to the salads on the poll, the recipes comply with.)

Trust us, there are really 16 salads—click through to vote and see them all. — Belief us, there are actually 16 salads—click on by to vote and see all of them.

As soon as we’ve bought our 8 contenders by April 12, we’ll enter the judging portion of the competitors—which is the place you are available. We’re searching for a couple of volunteers to make a pair of salads and determine which one ought to advance to the following spherical. Click on right here in the event you’re recreation.

By April 22, we’ll publish the salad finalists that may transfer on to Spherical 3, together with our judges’ coloration commentary.

Spherical 4 is the last word showdown—The Salad Bowl, after all!—the place the final two salads will go face to face. Everybody will probably be invited to make the finalists and assist us declare one the champion. The creator of the successful salad recipe will obtain a golden fork, and our judges will get a particular thank-you present.

Nonetheless with us? Inform us the 8 salads that ought to make it to Spherical 2 by April 12. Might the most effective salad win!

Our subsequent match topic is summer season facet dishes. Do you’ve a recipe we must always think about? Submit it by Might 15. If it’s an current recipe, simply click on the edit button beneath the photograph of your recipe and tag your recipe Event of Summer season Sides within the “Particular Concerns” subject. For brand new recipes, comply with the identical tagging directions if you add it to the positioning right here. Questions? Get in contact.