the LA CHOP
BIG SALAD | BOLD FLAVOR
Thank you to our friend, What's Gaby Cooking, for this recipe!
Lindsay from Pinch of Yum, a white woman with brown hair wearing a denim shirt, speaks to camera. Caption reads, "Thank you to our friend, @whatsgabycooking for this recipe!"
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Her whole salad chapter is truly divine, but the Chop is our girl today.
White hand flipping through the "What's Gaby Cooking" cookbook. Caption reads, "Her whole salad chapter is truly divine, but the Chop is our girl."
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It's. A. Party.
red onion
cherry tomatoes
garbanzos
fresh mozz
pepperoncini
salami
lettuce
provolone
Gathering all the party guests and then getting the dance floor ready.
Camera pans across all the bowls of chopped salad ingredients and strips of iceberg lettuce on a black cutting board. Caption reads, "Gathering all the party guests and then getting the dance floor ready."
LA Chop 1
Take a few iceberg leaves at a time, lay them flat and then cut into strips. Going a little rogue and chopping again to make more bitesize-able.
Large knife slicing through strips of iceberg lettuce on black cutting board. Caption reads, "Take a few iceberg leaves at a time, lay them flat and then cut into strips. Going a little rogue and chopping again to make more bitesize-able."
LA Chop 3
Chopping - check! Now onto the lemon vinaigrette with a little garlic and finely diced shallots.
Camera pans across bowls of ingredients and then a cutting board featuring chopped shallot and garlic. Caption reads, "Chopping - check! Now onto the lemon vinaigrette with a little garlic and finely diced shallots."
LA Chop 4
Adding salt and pepper to a glass pyrex mixing cup full of olive oil, vinegar, shallot and garlic..
LA Chop 5
Whisk being pulled out of glass pyrex mixing cup full of lemon vinaigrette.
LA Chop 6
Grab your biggest bowl and Let's. Start. Piling.
Dumping chopped lettuce and radicchio into a large metal mixing bowl sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Grab your biggest bowl and Let's. Start. Piling."
LA Chop 7
Chickpeas - check.
White bowl of chickpeas being added to a large metal mixing bowl filled with lettuce and radicchio, sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Chickpeas - check."
LA Chop 8
Tomatoes - check.
Small clear glass bowl full of chopped orange and red cherry tomatoes being added to large mixing bowl full of salad ingredients, sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Tomatoes - check."
LA Chop 9
Fresh mozzarella - check.
Small bowl of fresh mozzarella balls being added to large metal mixing bowl full of salad ingredients sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Fresh mozzarella - check."
LA Chop 10
Provolone - check.
(yes, double cheese hiiiiiiii!)
Small bowl of cubed provolone being added to metal mixing bowl full of salad ingredients sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Provolone - check. (yes, double cheese hiiiiiiii!)"
LA Chop 11
Red onion - check.
Small bowl of chopped red onion being added to metal mixing bowl full of salad ingredients, sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Red onion - check."
LA Chop 12
Pepperoncini - check.
Pepperoncini being dumped from small white bowl into large metal mixing bowl filled with salad ingredients, sitting on marble countertop. Caption reads, "Pepperoncini - check."
LA Chop 13
(aren't you glad you grabbed the big bowl?
Salami - check.
Adding chopped salami to metal mixing bowl full of salad ingredients, sitting on a marble countertop. Caption reads, "Salami - check. (arent' you glad you grabbed the big bowl?)"
LA Chop 14
Let's dress this babe.
Pouring vinaigrette from glass mixing cup into large metal bowl filled with chopped salad ingredients. Caption reads, "Let's dress this babe."
LA Chop 15
Do NOT recommend trying to toss one-handed but look at this actual dream in a bowl we made.
Salad being tossed with tongs in big metal mixing bowl. Caption reads, "Do NOT recommend trying to toss one-handed but look at this actual dream in a bowl we made."
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Now, it's your turn. Let's get chopping.
Close up of finsihed LA Chop in a white bowl. Caption reads, "Now it's your turn, let's get chopping."
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