Category:Colombian Salads

Browse All Colombian Recipes: Colombian Appetizers | Colombian Beverages | Colombian Soups | Colombian Salads | Colombian Vegetarian | Colombian Meat Dishes | Colombian Snacks | Colombian Desserts The Columbian salads and are made with vegetables, exotic plants, radishes, corn chips, spices, but not many of them include meat. Beans are a common salad ingredient: the very colorful black bean salad (with tomatoes, cucumbers and corn), cottage cheese, avocado and black bean salsa, or black beans con jalapenos with hot and sweet peppers. Other used veggies are the cucumbers and tomatoes: cucumber salad with jalapeno, garden tomatoes salad, the refreshing cucumber salsa or the tomatoes celery salsa in tomatoes juice. Other ensaladas contain cactus (ensalada de nopal y rabano), ensalada de palmitos (hearts of palm, avocado, tomatoes, various greens), ensalada de jicama y pina (pineapple, jicama, cucumber, lime), ensalada de la casa or home made salad (greens and radishes) and ensalada de Cesar Cardini. This last salad was invented by Cesar Cardini, during the Mexican prohibition and it contains romaine hearts, olive oil, anchovy dressing, roasted pine nuts, toasted croutons, queso anejo, grilled shrimp and grilled chicken.