How To Make A Layered Salad: Instructions and Photos
By mary615
The Layered Salad
This is a great salad to make the day before your dinner. It’s always a favorite to take to someone’s house who is having the dinner and asked you to bring a dish. Everyone loves it. Unlike other salads, this one actually gets better the next day. No limp lettuce! I have found that this salad actually tastes better the 3rd. day after it’s made!
You absolutely have to have a container with a tight fitting lid. A large Tupperware container with a lid is ideal, but the salad isn’t as pretty and showy as a glass container. I’m going to make this one in a glass container so you can see the pretty colors in the salad. If I know my family, there won’t be any left over.
I’ll place Saran Wrap tightly over the top to seal the salad.
Ingredients For The Layered Salad
You will need:
2 heads of fresh Ice Burg Lettuce
About ½ cup each:
Tomatoes: Diced
Green Onions: Cut into small pieces. I include the top part of the Onion. I call these Spring Onions.
Green Peppers: Chopped
Radishes: sliced thin
Carrots: these look nicer in the salad if they are sliced thin
1 Pint REAL HELLMAN’S Mayonnaise (NO substitute!)
1 Large Bag of Frozen Green Peas
1 Large Bag of Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Bacon Bits
Ingredients For The Layered Salad
I am spoiled since I discovered the ready-to-use vegetables in the Super Market. I used to chop and slice all these things by hand. Now I buy them already prepared. It’s more convenient, and I think it makes a prettier salad because all the pieces are cut uniformly.
Wash the Lettuce well. With your hands, tear enough Lettuce to cover the bottom of the salad container up to about 1 inch in height.
Sprinkle the various vegetables on top of the Lettuce uniformly.
Make another layer of the Lettuce, and another layer of the vegetables.
Continue building up in this manner until you are at the top of the container.
When you reach the top of container, sprinkle the frozen peas uniformly all over the top.
Use the Hellman’s Mayo to spread all over the top of the salad. Pretend you are icing a cake.
Seal the container tightly, Refrigerate overnight.
Tear Lettuce And Place On The Bottom Of The Bowl
Adding The Chopped Ingredients For The Layered Salad
Keep Adding Vegetables To The Layered Salad
Building Up The Layered Salad
The Layered Salad Is Almost Completed
Package of Frozen Peas Are Placed On The Top
The Layered Salad Is "Iced" With The Hellman's Mayo
Before Serving, Sprinkle Sharp Shredded Cheese On The Top Of The Layered Salad
When you are ready to serve the salad, sprinkle the Shredded Cheese all over the top. I put the Bacon Bits in a separate bowl for those who would like them.
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Comments
Hi Lord, by all means put in the salad anything you like. Jalepenos would sure add a little "heat" to the salad. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. Hope you had a blessed Christmas. I'm still stuffed! See you....
Thanks for the great recipe. Only problem - no salad ingredients at home. Will try this.
I make this salad and it is always a hit.I also sprinkle some parm. cheese on top. Great pictures Mary!
Mmm, this is so yummy!
Hi, Gypsy Rose Lee, thanks for reading my Hub about making a layered salad. Hope you will try to make it (after you buy the stuff). Regards
Hi, picklesandrufus, thanks for taking the time to read my Hub on making a layered salad. I've made these for years, and they are always a hit. I'll bet Parm. cheese would be good, I'll have to try that. see you again, soon
brianna, thanks for reading my instructions on making a layered salad. Hope you'll try it sometimes. Bye for now.
This is great. My best friend suffers from diabetes and this is something I can make that she can eat and it looks good! Thank you. I do so love useful information and the pictures are wonderful. If you don't mind, I'm going to have my class make this following the pictures. I teach developmentally disabled students many of whom are non readers. It's wonderful to find recipes they can follow more independently using pictures. I know they will love it.
Love this idea. It makes the salad look so festive and has so many delicious veggies in it. Thanks for sharing this recipe and the step by step directions.
Voted up, useful and beautiful.
My family loves this recipe! Your pics are making me crave layered salad now. lol. Voted up!
Hi poetvix, thanks for reading my Hub on a layered salad. I would be honored to have your students make this and follow along with the photos! There is no reason why they can't make this and feel really good about what they did. Goodnight.
Hi there HBN, so nice to see you survived Christmas! Thanks for reading my recipe for layered salad. Thanks for the votes, too. You are always so supportive of my Hubs, and I do appreciate that. Goodnight.
Hi, habee, thanks for reading my instructions on a layered salad! We just finished up that big bowl of salad tonight. Thanks for the vote up! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family. I know you were busy. It's always so good to hear from you. Kiss Georgia for me, OK?
Wow, now I will be looking for an excuse to make this! I love salads and this looks fantastic. I will pick up Hellmans tomorrow. Thank you!
This salad looks yummy Mary. I have bookmarked it.
Hi, Pollyannalana, good to see you today. Thanks for reading about my layered salad. If you like salads, you'll love this one. Like I said it's even better the third day. Bye for now.
Good Morning, Sueswan, So glad you read about my layered salad. It is very good; I do hope you'll make it. Have a wonderful day, friend.
It does look beautiful Mary. This is a great presentation. I love a great salad and will be making this one.
Mary, this looks so good. I'll put it in my bookmarks. Good hub.
Hi there, Hyphenbird, good to see you again! Thanks for reading my Hub on how to make a layered salad, and thanks for the compliment. Do hope you will make this. See you again, soon.
Hey, there, moonlake, glad you think my layered salad looks good, and that you will make it. Thanks for the compliment, too. You are a dear to take the time to read and comment!
Such a healthy option and very tasty I'm sure. It looks spectacular on the table too! Beautiful pics. I am going to have to make one myself! Thanks for sharing :)
Hi aboutaustralia, thanks for reading my Hub on how to make a layered salad. Thanks for the compliment, too. I do hope you will make one for yourself. Goodnight.
This looks soooo good and healthy.Thanks for this fantastic sounding recipe!
Good Morning, rebeccamealey, so nice to see you! Thanks for reading about my layered salad. I hope you will try making it. Have a wonderful day. Regards, Mary
This is so pretty to look at! The frosting drew me in. I don't typically like mayo but I'll have to try this. Thanks !
Hi emilybee. Good to see you today! You really don't taste the mayo on the layered salad as you think you would. I'm like you; I don't usually like the taste of mayo. I do hope you'll try this. Everybody loves it. I hope you are having a wonderful day!
Very interesting recipe, have to try it. I guess the mayo kind of seals the salad too! Thanks for sharing this easy recipe with us. Will be very useful this summer :)
Hi, LaThing, I do hope you will give this layered salad a try. It's always a big hit at any dinner I take one to. You are right about the Mayo. The frozen peas don't even taste raw after sitting overnight with the mayo on the top. Please let me know how you like it.
This does look good, have had similar salads before. Thanks for sharing the how to:) (think I may leave out the onions:) Now that the seasons are changing what a great intro to a nice summer day!
I like the way you wrote this hub and the salad looks delicious.
Hi heart4theword, I do hope you will try to make this layered salad. Yes, leave out the onions if you like. Put any kind of veg. you like in it. I sometimes add thinly sliced radishes just for some added color. Thanks for reading and commenting!
Hi, Lastheart. Thanks for reading about the layered salad. Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate that. Goodnight.
lord de cross 5 months ago
A healthy recipe rich in greens, I love Habaneros, but you wouldn't mind me adding my Jalepenos..right Mary? Good for cold plates and a trip to a lake. I wonder if after done you share your cooking with your family at the end of the shoot session? Time for me to make me a quick salad, not this rich, but nutritious as well...!
Thanks Mary!
LORD