Home chef Cooking with Ayeh shares her simple tip to improve even the most basic salad

A home chef and foodie has shared her simple trick to elevate even the most basic salad, and it’s got nothing to do with the ingredients.

Ayeh Manfre, who goes by Cooking With Ayeh online, posted a video on TikTok, where she said that the best way to improve your salads is to chop up everything you’re putting in them really small.

This means that you can use a spoon to eat them and you get to enjoy a little bit of each flavour with every bite.

A home chef and foodie has shared her simple trick to elevate even the most basic salad, and it’s got nothing to do with the ingredients – you simply need to chop up the ingredients finely

‘Here’s a tip to make any salad taste better,’ Ayeh posted with the video. 

‘The key is you need a spoon, because salads with a spoon always hit the spot a little bit different.’

She added: ‘This is because you get to taste a little bit of everything in every bite.’

On this particular occasion, Ayeh made a Greek salad with tomato, cucumber, red pepper and red onion ‘all chopped into tiny cubes’.

One of her other top tips is to soak the onion in water, which helps to get rid of that ‘harsh onion-y flavour’. 

In her Greek salad, Ayeh said she also included ‘juicy Kalamata olives’, which she chopped up, as well as feta crumbled on top and a homemade dressing.

To make the dressing, Ayeh combined olive oil, vinegar and oregano.

Then, simply serve with a piece of crunchy sourdough.

On this particular occasion, Ayeh said she has made a Greek salad with tomato, cucumber, red pepper and red onion ‘all chopped into tiny cubes’ (pictured)

How to make Ayeh’s perfect Greek salad 

INGREDIENTS

Tomato 

She said you need to eat salads with spoons in order to make them taste best

Cucumber

Red onion

Feta

Kalamata olives

For the dressing

Extra Virgin olive oil

Oregano

Vinegar

Salt and pepper to taste 

METHOD

1. Start by soaking the red onions in water to get rid of the overly onion-y flavour.

2. Next, chop up your red onion, tomatoes and cucumber into fine tiny cubes.

3. Cut up your kalamata olives and mix everything together.

4. To make the dressing, combine your olive oil, vinegar and oregano. Add salt and pepper to taste.

5. Dress the salad and give it another good mix. Top with crumbled feta.

6. Serve with a slice of crunchy sourdough bread.

Source: Cooking with Ayeh 

Thousands who saw the simple video agreed with the foodie and said they always like to chop up their ingredients extra small (Ayeh pictured)

Thousands who saw the simple video agreed with the foodie and said they always like to chop up their ingredients extra small.

‘Love it, my stomach is growling,’ one person wrote.

Another added: ‘What! Why have I never considered this!’

Ayeh has built up a huge TikTok following for her recipes and handy food tips and ticks.

She has a huge social media following of more than 2.3million people.