Chopped Salad

Two MUST HAVE ingredients for CHOPPED SALAD you won't find in any recipe!

1. Chop-Quality Wooden Bowl
2. Mezzaluna or Ulu crescent-shaped blade

Chop quality wooden bowl

A Chop quality wooden bowl (preferably 10" or 12") easy to hold, a chop bowl is just that not the prettiest gallery bowl but a kitchen workhorse you will also use for your home made dressings including your Caesar dressing, coleslaw and even pie dough. Our friends at King Arthur flour would recommend a 17`` bowl

Mezzaluna or Ulu a crescent-shaped blade

Mezzaluna or Ulu a crescent-shaped blade is sharpened along its whole length, allowing people to rock it from one side all the way to the other for a clean cut. The handles allow people to control the blade without the risk of injury; The handles are typically made from wood.

It can take a few tries to get used to using a mezzaluna. You can experiment with both flat cutting boards and rounded bowls to get the hang of it.

Once people learn to control mezzalunas, they can use these tools for things like mincing garlic and herbs, finely chopping tomatoes for sauces, and engaging in a variety of other tasks. A mezzaluna can also be used as a pastry knife, chopping shortening into flour to make an assortment of dough’s. Some people find that once they start using a mezzaluna for such tasks, it can be difficult to use an ordinary knife.

With the Mezzaluna and a wooden bowl you don't have to keep gathering the chopped stuff back to the center of the board. Using the chop bowl your salad ingredients fall back to the center of a chop bowl naturally. Your fingers aren't in danger of being chopped off in the process either, because you don't have to hold the herbs while you chop. Achieving “chopped" has never been easier or faster with these two kitchen tools and a gentle rocking motion

Always a favorite of the country-club set, the chopped salad has entered the mainstream. For the home cook, chopping your salad takes a little more work, but it's worth it: Chopping the salad allows flavors and textures to mingle in every bite instead of having to fish for flavors. And it's easy to eat with a fork or spoon. So get for some chopping.

Use your wooden bowl to chop nuts, meat, olives, cheese, and cranberries olives, herbs anything you love in your salad is seasoned together. Toss lightly with your favorite store bought or homemade dressing

The perfect alternative to chopping on a wooden flat surface!