Salad "Budapest" - this is an excellent treat for the festive table, and for everyday home dinner. The dish is bright, beautiful, very appetizing and tasty. Pickled onions give it a subtle spicy note, and thanks to the meat it becomes satisfying. Salad is in harmony with any side dish: boiled rice or potatoes, wheat porridge, spaghetti.
Product Composition
For salad:
- boiled beef - 350 g;
- sweet salad pepper of different colors - 4 pcs.;
- tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- parsley - 1 small bunch.
For marinade:
- natural vinegar 5% - 60 ml;
- water - 60 ml.
For refueling:
- vegetable oil - 60 ml;
- salt - 1/2 tsp.
How to boil meat for a Budapest salad
In an enameled pan, boil 2 liters of water, put peeled onions, carrots and fresh parsley root, peppercorns, bay leaf and salt. Put the meat in boiling water, cover and cook until cooked for 2 hours. Then drain the liquid, remove the vegetables, and cool the meat and cut into long strips.
How to make a Budapest salad
Pickle the onion first. To do this, combine vinegar and cold water in a cup or food container. Peel the onion, cut into thin half rings and place in the marinade for 10-15 minutes.
Pepper from the tails and seeds, and then cut into thin and long slices. Divide the tomatoes into 4 parts, remove the juice and seeds, they are not needed in the salad, and cut the pulp into thin strips.
Put the pickled onions in a sieve and let the liquid drain completely. Combine meat and vegetables in a large bowl, pour over vegetable oil, add salt, sprinkle with green parsley and mix thoroughly. Salad "Budapest" with beef is ready!
Useful tips and cooking options
You can not cook beef for salad, but fry it. To do this, cut the raw steak into thin strips 5-7 cm long, grate with salt and freshly ground pepper. In a pan, heat sunflower oil, put the meat in one layer and fry until cooked on all sides. It takes about 10 minutes, not 2 hours, as is the case with boiling.
You can also bake beef in the oven. With this cooking method, the meat will turn out to be soft and soft, retain all the juices in itself, and the cooking process will do without excess fat. To bake beef properly, first grate it with black pepper. Do not salt in any case, otherwise the pulp will let the juice go, and the finished dish will turn out to be hard and dry! Wrap the prepared piece in 2 layers of aluminum foil. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius in advance and send the meat to bake for 1 hour. If a piece weighs more than 500 grams, the baking time should be increased.
To get new flavors and make the salad easier and more nutritious, replace the beef with chicken. Instead of natural meat, you can use a beef heart or tongue. For this recipe, the heart should be boiled, and the tongue boiled or baked in foil. Also try making a treat with smoked sausage such as salami - this option is also very tasty, and the cooking time will be reduced to 10-15 minutes.
Sweet pepper for the preparation of salad "Budapest" is better to take several colors. In this case, the dish will turn out more vivid and colorful. On the festive table, the treat laid out on the leaves of curly green salad looks beautiful.
To give the dish a spicy touch, add 1 finely chopped clove of garlic, and instead of vegetable oil, you can use sour cream or natural yogurt.
Try to make Budapest salad only once - and he will become a regular guest at your table. The cooking process is simple, and even the most fastidious gourmets will certainly appreciate the result. The main thing - do not be afraid to experiment and adapt the recipe to your liking