Pear and Cranberry Chopped Salad
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2009
We wanted complementary flavors and textures in every bite—not a random collection of bland, watery produce from the crisper drawer.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
To prevent the cut-up produce in our chopped salad recipe from exuding moisture, we turned to techniques like seeding the cucumbers and quartering the cherry tomatoes before salting them to expose more surface area to the salt. An assertive...