My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.
If we’re looking for bare minimum, I would say 1, depending on quantity and presentation. I would consider a bowl of lettuce a salad, but I wouldn’t consider a bowl of cucumber and onion a salad, but once you add a dressing like ranch, it’s now a salad. Even if you added something like a vinaigrette, you’d have a slaw, more specifically, in this case, but a slaw is a salad.