Recipes for delicious homemade salads. Salads are simple and tasty
Salads are simple and tasty - easy. Just look in the refrigerator or rummage through the kitchen shelves, and there will definitely be ingredients from which you can prepare simple and tasty salads that will decorate your table at any time.
However, to prepare simple and tasty salads there are several rules. Vegetables for salads are cut into approximately identical pieces: coarsely (slices, circles) or finely (cubes, strips). If you mix large slices of tomatoes with cucumbers cut into small cubes, then the taste of tomatoes will predominate in the salad, and the cucumbers will simply be “lost.” In addition, salads in the same cuts look more neat, natural and appetizing.
Greens are added to the salad last and need to be chopped finely. Or, conversely, tear the leaves with your hands; this primarily applies to leaf salads. As for dressing, in general the rules dictate that you just mix the vegetables, do not add salt or pour oil on them. And when serving, put vinegar, vegetable oil, salt, pepper or specially prepared dressings or sauces on the table so that everyone can season their portion of the salad the way they like.
Salad “Summer Mood”
Ingredients:
1 large bunch of green lettuce leaves,
1 bunch of fresh dill,
½ head of white onion,
2 boiled eggs,
2 tbsp. 15% sour cream,
1 tsp Sahara,
1 tbsp. vinegar,
a mixture of ground peppers (pink and black) - to taste.
Preparation:
Thinly slice the onion into half rings and marinate it. To do this, place it in a separate container and add sugar and a mixture of peppers, pour vinegar and leave for 15 minutes so that the bitterness disappears. Tear the lettuce leaves into a deep dish with your hands. Chop the dill with a knife. Cut the eggs into large slices so that they can be felt in the salad. Add dill, eggs and pickled onions to the lettuce leaves. Season the salad with sour cream and mix lightly so as not to destroy the structure and shape of the products.
Salad with radish, egg and sausage
Ingredients:
100 g radishes,
100 g sausage,
1 fresh cucumber
1 egg,
3 tbsp. vegetable oil,
dill, salt and ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Before use, soak the radishes in cold water for 15-20 minutes, then wash, cut off the ends and cut into 4 pieces. If the peel has dark spots or damage, cut it off. Cut the sausage and cucumber into cubes. Finely chop the boiled egg. Combine the crushed ingredients, add finely chopped dill, salt, pepper, add oil and stir.
Salad with spicy dressing
Ingredients:
2 tomatoes
1 cucumber
2 onions,
1 bunch of parsley,
green salad leaves.
For refueling:
120 ml vegetable oil,
60 ml lemon juice.
2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar,
2 tsp ground cumin,
salt, black peppercorns - to taste.
Preparation:
Tear the salad with your hands, chop the tomatoes coarsely, cucumber into slices, and onion coarsely chop. Mix vegetable oil, lemon juice, vinegar, cumin. Add salt and ground black pepper in a mortar. Place the vegetables in a salad bowl and pour over the dressing.
Salad "Red Sea"
Ingredients:
2 tomatoes
½ onion,
7-8 pcs. crab sticks,
2-3 hard-boiled eggs,
1-2 cloves of garlic,
mayonnaise, salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the tomatoes into thin slices, crab sticks into thick slices. Finely chop the onion and chop the garlic cloves. Cut the eggs into small slices. Place tomatoes, garlic, crab sticks and chopped eggs in a deep bowl or salad bowl. Season the salad with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.
Salad "May"
Ingredients:
50 g ham,
50 g fresh champignon mushrooms,
1 can of green peas,
a bunch of green onions,
mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the champignons into large pieces and fry in vegetable oil for 5 minutes, adding salt first. Cut the ham into small pieces. Finely chop the green onions. After all the ingredients are ready, place the ham mixed with green onions in the first layer on the dish. Spread with mayonnaise. Place canned green peas on the ham and fried champignons on top.
Salad “Spring mood”
Ingredients:
120 g hard salted cheese,
2 apples,
2 carrots,
3 boiled eggs,
½ onion,
greens and mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the onion into half rings and scald with boiling water, then drain it into a fine sieve or colander until the water has completely drained. Peel the apples and grate them on a fine grater. Place scalded onions in the salad bowl as the first layer and distribute evenly over the bottom. Also grate the eggs on a fine grater and mix them with mayonnaise in a separate container and place them in a second layer. Grate fresh carrots on a fine grater and spread in a third layer. Add a small amount of mayonnaise on top of the carrots. Now grate the hard salty cheese on a fine grater and add a little more mayonnaise. When all layers of salad are laid out in a salad bowl, garnish with finely chopped herbs, based on your taste preferences.
Cauliflower salad
Ingredients:
1 head of cauliflower,
2 fresh cucumbers,
200 g cheese,
½ cup natural yogurt,
chopped green onions, dill, salt - to taste.
Preparation:
Separate the cabbage into inflorescences and boil in salted boiling water or steam. Cut the cucumbers and cheese into cubes. To make the dressing, stir together yogurt, chopped dill and salt. Pour the prepared dressing over the salad and refrigerate for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with green onions before serving.
Sorrel salad
Ingredients:
1 bunch of sorrel,
½ head of cabbage,
300 g of any smoked meat,
salt - to taste,
mayonnaise.
Preparation:
Wash the sorrel, dry and chop. Finely chop the cabbage. Cut the smoked meat into cubes. Combine the ingredients, add salt, season with mayonnaise, mix well and serve immediately after cooking.
Salad “Fudge”
Ingredients:
1 stack boiled beans,
200 g seaweed in vinegar-oil sauce,
2 medium apples,
1 stack boiled rice,
2 boiled eggs,
100 g hard cheese,
1 clove of garlic,
mayonnaise.
Preparation:
Peel the eggs and grate on a coarse grater or finely chop. Drain excess liquid from seaweed. Peel the apples and grate them on a coarse grater. Grate the hard cheese on a medium grater. Pass the garlic through a press and mix with mayonnaise. Place in a deep salad bowl in layers, brushing with mayonnaise and garlic to taste: beans - eggs - seaweed - rice - apples - cheese. Let the salad sit for a while to soak the layers.
Gustavsky salad
Ingredients:
100 g ham (can be replaced with boiled meat),
100 g hard cheese,
1 yellow bell pepper,
1 cucumber
1 clove of garlic,
greens, mayonnaise or sour cream - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the ham or meat into strips, not very finely. Cut hard cheese in the same way; you can also grate it on a coarse grater. Peel the cucumber if it is thick or bitter, and cut it into slices. Peel the sweet peppers and cut them into strips the same size as the ham and cheese. Cut the garlic into strips too. Mix all ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise or sour cream and garnish with parsley or any other herbs.
Salad with sausage cheese, carrots and garlic
Ingredients:
300 g sausage cheese,
1 carrot,
4 cloves of garlic,
mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation:
Before cooking, lightly freeze the cheese, it will then be easier to grate. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and place in a salad bowl. Wash the raw carrots, peel them, grate them on the same grater and also put them in a salad bowl. Pass the garlic through a press or grate it on a fine grater and add to the rest of the products. Season the salad with mayonnaise, taking into account the fact that the softer the cheese, the less mayonnaise will be needed for dressing. Stir the salad and add salt if necessary.
Salad "Emerald" from processed cheese and eggs
Ingredients:
1 processed cheese,
2 cloves of garlic,
2 boiled eggs,
lettuce leaves,
1 fresh cucumber
mayonnaise (fat content can be any, you can also use homemade mayonnaise).
Preparation:
Cut the fresh cucumber into rings. Freeze the processed cheese and grate it on a fine grater. Squeeze the garlic through the garlic press into the grated cheese. Grate the eggs on a fine grater, then add them to the cheese mixture. Season the finished salad with mayonnaise and mix. Wash lettuce leaves (it is better to use small leaves) under running water. Place 1 tsp on each lettuce leaf. lettuce, while slightly picking up the lettuce leaf. Place the sliced cucumber in a circle on a plate. Place salad leaves with filling in the center of the plate. You can show your imagination and put, for example, an olive, red currant on each cucumber slice, or just put some ketchup drops.
Salad "Lady"
Ingredients:
1 pickled or fresh cucumber,
1 boiled chicken breast,
1 can of green peas,
mayonnaise - to taste,
dill - for decoration.
Preparation:
Grate the pickled cucumber on a coarse grater. You can also use fresh cucumber, then the smell of the salad will be simply magnificent. Drain the brine from the jar of peas, place the peas in a salad bowl or on a plate. Place chopped chicken breast on top of the peas and coat generously with mayonnaise. Place grated cucumber on top. Garnish the finished salad with dill sprigs.
Chicken salad with mustard dressing
Ingredients:
400 g chicken fillet,
5 medium cucumbers,
5-6 leaves of fresh lettuce,
100 g mustard with grains,
5 tbsp. lemon juice,
3 tbsp. vegetable oil,
salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Boil the chicken fillet, cool and cut into small pieces. Peel the cucumbers and cut into cubes. Chop or tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. For dressing, mix mustard with lemon juice and oil, beat with a small whisk or just a fork. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, add salt and pepper, pour over the dressing and mix well.
Vegetable salad with new potatoes, cucumber and herbs
Ingredients:
3 potatoes,
1 cucumber
1 stack natural yogurt,
50 g mayonnaise,
1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar,
greens, salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Wash the new potatoes, cover with cold water, add salt and cook until tender. Grate the cucumber on a fine grater. Finely chop the parsley and dill, cut the green onions into small rings. Mix mayonnaise and yogurt, add cucumber along with juice, salt and pepper, then add vinegar and mix everything well. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices, place in a salad bowl, pour over the dressing and sprinkle with green onions.
Salad “Italian Paradise”
Ingredients:
300 g cabbage,
1 sweet pepper,
2 apples,
200 g hard cheese,
2 cloves of garlic,
2 tbsp. ketchup,
mayonnaise,
pitted olives.
Preparation:
Finely chop the fresh cabbage, remember with your hands, and drain off the excess juice. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Peel the pepper from seeds and cut into cubes. Core the apples and cut them into cubes. Cut the olives into small circles. For the sauce, mix mayonnaise with ketchup, add garlic passed through a press. Place the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, mix and pour over the prepared sauce.
Salad with smoked sausage
Ingredients:
500 g white cabbage,
1 carrot,
1 apple,
200 g smoked sausage,
250 g mayonnaise,
parsley,
salt - to taste.
Preparation:
Finely chop the cabbage and lightly rub with salt. Grate the carrots and apple on a coarse grater, cut the smoked sausage into small cubes. Combine all ingredients, mix and season with mayonnaise, place in a salad bowl and garnish with parsley.
“Dachny” salad with green onions
Ingredients:
5-7 potatoes,
200-300 g boiled sausage,
2 cucumbers,
1 bunch of green onions,
parsley, dill, basil, mayonnaise or sour cream, salt - to taste.
Preparation:
Peel the boiled potatoes in their jackets and cut them into small cubes. Also cut the sausage and peeled cucumbers into cubes. Finely chop the green onions and herbs. Using a portion pan, layer the sliced ingredients: first the sausage, then the cucumbers and potatoes. Repeat the layers, not forgetting to salt them. Coat each layer with mayonnaise or sour cream, as you like. Next, remove the portion form and sprinkle green onions and herbs on top of the salad.
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Larisa Shuftaykina
Light salad. Light salad - a nutritious salad made from easy-to-digest foods, dressed with vegetable oil, yogurt, sauce or low-fat dressing.
Food has a direct impact on our well-being. If you want to feel lightness, energy, and cheerfulness, eat healthy, light food that saturates the body with useful substances, but does not exhaust you, leaving only one desire - to lie on the couch. Do you want to eat and feel comfortable and easy? Forget about heavy, multi-ingredient salads dressed with fatty mayonnaise. In fact, mayonnaise only spoils the salad, its benefits and positive effects on health. You will have to make do with healthier dressings - lemon juice, olive oil, high-quality soy sauce, yogurt, low-fat sour cream, etc.
Choose only healthy foods for your salad. Avoid sausages and smoked meats, which are often added to salads today. Only fresh seafood, vegetables, delicate low-fat cheeses, fruits. Don't overdo it with cheese and eggs. Remember that leftover food from the refrigerator is not considered healthy food. All products must be fresh. For the same reason, you don’t need to cook a lot - it’s always better to make and eat a fresh salad than to think that the day before yesterday will also help improve your health. This salad has no vitamins or freshness.
The way the food is processed is also important. If you are preparing a salad from fish, then you do not need to fry it - it is better to stew or boil it. The same goes for chicken if you decide to make a salad with fillet. Vegetables for light salads are taken fresh. Just wash and cut them. Therefore, light salads are quick salads. Healthy food can save time! It's a pity that fast food lovers don't know about this!
Separately, we should talk about salt, which is a provocateur of heart disease, inhibits the removal of fluid from the body and increases appetite. Add salt in a minimal amount - only this salad is light and dietary.
You can enhance the taste of a light salad, which may seem a little bland, with the help of properly selected spices. Good options are cilantro, cinnamon, ginger and, of course, ground black pepper. Spices not only enrich the taste, but also burn fat. The feeling of lightness will increase every day! Many people blame spices for stimulating their appetite. If you feel hungry, just eat a couple of extra spoons of salad, because it has very few calories. Compared to any salad dressed with mayonnaise, a diet salad is a feather!
It is nutritious, but completely useless for the body. It’s better to have lunch with a modest salad, which will fill you with new energy and satisfy your hunger until dinner. By the way, these dishes are also suitable for the latter. Eating too much at night is harmful, and in order for your figure to remain slim and attractive, it is better to reduce your consumption of heavy food. Recipes for simple, light, quick salads offer all sorts of combinations of various vegetables, fruits, sauces and herbs.
The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes are:
You can add ham, cheese, crab sticks, canned fish, pickled mushrooms and much more. Among such a variety, everyone will find the perfect combination of their favorite products that can be easily prepared at any time. Such dishes will fit perfectly into the holiday menu. They are incredibly tasty, do not leave a feeling of heaviness and require a minimum of effort and time to prepare. This is a great alternative to traditional holiday treats that guests will definitely be delighted with.
A salad is usually a snack dish consisting of several chopped products and seasoned with some kind of sauce or vegetable oil. Sour cream, yogurt, mayonnaise, etc. can be used as a sauce. To make the salad tasty, it is important to correctly observe the proportions of the ingredients, as well as know their compatibility with each other. The requirement of time is the simplest salads, which are prepared quickly, and the ingredients required are the most common. Today, such recipes for simple salads can be found in abundance on the pages of specialized websites, in literature, and on television. Any housewife has in her arsenal a couple of “easy salads” that help her out at the right time.
Such salads can be prepared from both vegetables and fruits. There are also a large number of interesting solutions from meat, cheese, and seafood. The correct selection of ingredients sometimes allows you to create a real culinary masterpiece from ordinary products. For example, take a simple combination - carrots, apple, sour cream - and you will have a wonderful “quick” snack on your table, just a delicious salad. Or even simpler - cucumbers with sour cream. This is a “simple and delicious” salad!
Simple chicken salads are very good and nutritious. The use of chicken fillet and sausages in salads is now very common all over the world. Mix chicken fillet, herbs, olive oil and vinegar and you have a simple birthday salad. For any holiday, recipes for simple and tasty salads can be invented on the go, from what you currently have in the refrigerator. And there is no need to strive to surprise guests with a large number of products in the salad. The fewer ingredients, the better and brighter the flavors of each product will be “heard”, and they will not clog each other. To make a birthday salad simply and tasty, you just need to show ingenuity and imagination, mix the simplest ingredients correctly and beautifully in one dish.
If you still can’t make a simple salad, a photo from the site will help you understand the principles of making such dishes. Presentation of the salad is one of the main requirements for these dishes. Therefore, master the recipes for simple salads with photos, and immediately make a high-quality presentation of your creation.
Check out our other tips for making simple salads:
Do not overload salads with a large number of ingredients, let each of them give its maximum flavor to the final dish;
Simple classic salads can be served as a side dish to any main dish of meat, fish, or poultry;
Pay attention to the aesthetic appearance of the salad. Don't forget that salad is the decoration of your table;
Make sure your salad ingredients are fresh. You can no longer hide the unpleasant smell of a stale vegetable; it will ruin the entire dish;
Perishable products for salad should be purchased immediately before preparation;
It is very important to follow the gradual addition of certain products. Crackers, if called for in the recipe, are added immediately before serving. Salad with herbs is also seasoned with sauce or oil before serving, otherwise the salad will take on a limp, unsightly appearance;
Cheese for salad should be spicy, slightly spicy, with a bright taste;
Simple fruit salads are desserts and are served at the end of the celebration.
Their tastes are unique and varied. There are salad recipes that need to be eaten immediately or can be preserved for the winter. Their composition can include many ingredients: all kinds of meat (pork, lamb, beef), poultry (chicken, turkey, goose or duck), seafood (squid, mussels, shrimp), any fish, all types of vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, fruits , nuts, berries and much more. Dressing is an essential component of salads.
The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes are:
It can be mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil, soy sauce, natural yogurt, lemon juice, etc. There are a lot of options. Depending on the preferences of the cook and those whom you plan to feed, you can prepare salty and sweet, spicy and sour, meat and vegetarian, high-calorie and dietary, traditional or puff pastries. Not a single holiday feast is complete without this dish, but for everyday meals, a light and delicate salad is an excellent choice. Today there are thousands of variations for preparing salads. You can pamper your household every day and surprise your loved ones with unusual, hearty and savory dishes.
