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What’s in a Maurice Salad?
It’s a salad not quite like any other. The base is made of iceberg lettuce but it also features some quirky stuff. There’s sweet gherkins and stuffed green olives, there’s Swiss cheese, turkey, and ham. The dressing features grated onion and hard-boiled egg, and a creamy lemony-mayo flavor you don’t really find anywhere else. It’s a salad that’s all about balance of flavor and it executes perfectly.
To make it yourself you’ll need:
Iceberg lettuce.
A pound of ham, sliced.
A pound of turkey, sliced.
A pound of Swiss cheese. Again, sliced.
Sweet gherkin pickles.
Pimento stuffed green olives.
For the dressing, you’ll need:
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Mayo.
Lemon juice.
White vinegar.
Yellow onion. Grated.
Granulated sugar.
Dijon mustard.
Mustard powder.
Fresh parsley.
1 hard boiled egg.
The dressing is a case study in the balance of sweet and tangy! It belongs on much more than just Maurice Salad.
How Do You Make a Maurice Salad?
For the dressing, it’s easiest to use a blender, but you can chop and whisk by hand instead and it works just fine. Blend the lemon juice, vinegar, salt, mustard, dry mustard, grated onion, and sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Then, simply stir in the parsley, grated hard-boiled egg, and mayo and chill it until you’re ready to assemble.
When it’s assembly time, get a very large bowl and toss all the ingredients with about a cup and half of the dressing until it’s well coated. You’ll have dressing left over (which is a great thing). Top it with some green olives and you’re ready to dig into this Detroit classic!
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