Salads are essential in human nutrition. They contain vitamins and minerals, supply trace elements, and help strengthen immunity. Hearty salads prepared with meat and mushrooms can replace lunch or evening meals.
Puff salads have long gained popularity, they are prepared not only on holidays, but also on weekdays. For their preparation, the simplest products that are in the refrigerator of any housewife are used: meat and mushrooms, fish and vegetables, fruits - all of them are successfully combined in salads. Due to the layering of the components, the taste and aroma of the ingredients are preserved, one type of salad already causes appetite. You just need to be creative in the preparation of salads and imagination, then you can surprise guests with original and delicious dishes from it.
Puff salads will be a heavy meal if each layer is oiled with greasy mayonnaise. Therefore, you need to choose low-calorie mayonnaise or sour cream with low fat content. Below you will find recipes with photos of puff salads with meat, which are definitely popular among housewives.
Chamomile Salad
A low-calorie salad with meat and Korean carrots can surprise guests at the festive table.
Necessary products for 3 persons:
- 100 g of pork.
- 2 small potatoes.
- 100 g of Korean carrots.
- 2 eggs.
- 50 g of cheese.
- 1 onion.
- Mayonnaise.
First, boil chicken eggs and potatoes (in uniform), cool, only then peel. When hot, they are poorly cleaned. Fry chopped onion. We cut boiled meat with a sharp knife into small cubes. Put the fried onions on a clean dish. The next layer is potatoes. Lubricate the layers with mayonnaise. Korean carrots are laid out on the potatoes, and chopped pork is sprinkled with finely grated cheese. Boiled eggs will go to decorate the salad. To do this, we put the grated yolks in the center of the salad, forming a circle, and with the help of proteins we create petals around the yellow center. It turns out one large daisy. You can arrange in the form of small daisies on the surface of the salad. We put the dish in a cool place so that the ingredients are saturated.
"Garnet bracelet"
The puff salad called “pomegranate bracelet”, decorated with pomegranate beads, is bright and beautiful.
To prepare such a hearty salad you will need:
- Large beets 1 pc.
- Chicken, can beef 200 g.
- Potatoes 2 medium.
- 2 carrots
- Medium onion.
- Raisins 100g.
- Walnuts 50 g.
First, boil meat and vegetables, cool. In the middle of a round and flat salad bowl we put a jar with a diameter of 6-7 cm, depending on the dishes. The first layer around the can is laid out boiled potatoes, grated on a fine grater, slightly add salt. The second layer is laid boiled carrots, grated through a medium grater. Put chopped meat on a layer of carrots, and nuts mixed with steamed raisins on it. Grated beets are laid out at the very top of the salad. All layers are smeared with mayonnaise. On a layer of beets, squeeze pomegranate beads. After completing the dish, take out the jar, after which the salad will sparkle with the beautiful color of a luxurious bracelet.
Cracker Salad
A beautiful hearty puff salad with mushrooms, meat, nuts, ruby pomegranate seeds can be decorated in the form of a New Year cracker that will decorate the holiday table.
You will need these components:
- 200 g of chicken (fillet).
- 200 g of champignons.
- 3 potatoes.
- 4 testicles.
- 50 g of walnuts.
- 1 onion.
Vegetables are boiled, cooled, chopped into cubes with a sharp knife. Do the same with meat. Cooked and cooled 2 eggs are chopped with a fork, the remaining 2 are left to decorate the salad.
The nuts are crushed to a state of medium size crumbs. Mushrooms are peeled, finely chopped and fried together with finely chopped onions.
After that, they start cooking. To do this, lay the cling film on the table, chopped potatoes with a square on it, gently compacting it, then put a mayonnaise grid on it. Then a layer of mushrooms is laid out on the potatoes, mayonnaise is applied. The next layer is the eggs, then the nuts. The last to prepare will be pomegranate seeds. All layers are compacted and folded in the form of a roll. In this case, you must try to give the salad a cracker shape. Keep the cracker in the refrigerator for about an hour and complete the design. To do this, rub the remaining two eggs separately, on proteins and yolks, rub the beets and carrots separately. All ready-made ingredients are laid across the cracker, creating multi-colored stripes of vegetables and eggs. It turns out a festive original dish.
Recipe for puff salad with meat, pineapple and corn
Salads with overseas pineapple fruit in combination with chicken and crab sticks have a pleasant delicate taste.
First, all the ingredients are prepared: rice and chicken meat are boiled, eggs are cooled. After that, meat, crab sticks, eggs and pineapples are cut into medium sized cubes. Collect the salad in layers. The first layer is rice, then the crab sticks, slices of pineapples are laid on them, the fourth is sweet corn, the chicken slices are on it, the sixth is pineapple again, the eggs complete.
Every two layers, it is necessary to coat the salad with mayonnaise, decorate with fresh herbs on top.
Salad with smoked meat, carrots and mushrooms
To prepare puff salad with smoked meat you need:
- 300 g smoked chicken 100-150 g prunes.
- 2 carrots.
- 4 potatoes.
- 4 testicles.
- 250 g of champignons.
- 150 g of cheese.
- 50 g of walnuts.
To lubricate the layers, you will need mayonnaise sauce or sour cream, and for decoration - a fresh cucumber, a sprig of dill or parsley, cranberry beads.
Cooking
Purely washed potatoes, carrots and eggs are boiled, cooled and peeled, the eggs are gently chopped with a fork or through a grater. Potatoes are cut into small cubes. Larger grater is used for carrots. The washed mushrooms after cutting are fried in sunflower oil, salted at the end of frying, and cooled. If the prunes are dry, you need to hold it in hot water for several minutes and cut into small cubes. Walnuts and cheese are rubbed on a fine grater, smoked chicken is chopped with a sharp knife into neat cubes. All layers of puff salad with meat and mushrooms, the recipe of which is presented to your attention, are soaked in mayonnaise or sour cream.
Finished products are laid out on a dish with a wide bottom layers:
- First comes the carrots, sprinkled with salt.
- Half the grated cheese rests on the carrots.
- Then comes a layer of two grated eggs.
- On grated eggs lay half the grated potatoes.
- Chopped walnuts cover a layer of potatoes.
- The next layer are pieces of prune.
- Then a layer of smoked chicken, and put the fried mushrooms on it.
- Walnuts are again placed on the mushrooms, and on them is a layer of the remaining potatoes.
The penultimate layer is grated 2 eggs. Grated cheese completes the decoration of the cake.
Salad cake can be decorated with cranberry beads and leaves cut from cucumber, then sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
It is worth noting that in puff salad, meat and carrots are perfectly combined. Before serving, keep the dish in the refrigerator for several hours.
Smoked Meat Italian Salad
We stock up:
- 200 g smoked chicken.
- One tomato and one pepper.
- 100 g crab sticks.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- 100 g hard cheese.
Cooking process
Cut crab sticks, smoked meat and tomato into small, neat cubes. Bulgarian pepper is finely chopped, and the eggs are chopped with a fork. We rub hard cheese through a fine grater.
Ready-made ingredients are placed in transparent glasses with a wide bottom or layers in a bowl, dressing with sauce.
The following sequence is observed: first, smoked chicken is laid, then bell pepper, crab sticks on it, then a tomato comes, followed by chopped eggs, grated cheese on top. It turns out a luxurious salad with a pleasant original taste.
Isabella Salad
Truly tasty and mouth-watering salad will not go unnoticed by gourmets during festive feasts, which combine simple and affordable products.
Required Products:
- Champignons 400 g
- Eggs - 4 eggs.
- Smoked chicken legs.
- Bulbs - 2 pcs.
- Korean carrot 100 g
Finely chopped mushrooms with onions are fried in sunflower oil, eggs are boiled. The cooled lettuce products are laid out in layers in this order with each layer smeared with mayonnaise: smoked meat, then mushrooms, then onions, chopped eggs and pickles. Korean carrots are spread on top. You can decorate the salad with green onion feathers or grated squirrels and egg yolks: a bouquet of daisies will look beautiful on an orange background.
Baked Chicken Salad
A festive salad with an unusual taste is prepared easily and simply.
It consists of the ingredients:
- Canned corn - 100 g.
- Grated cheese - 150 g.
- Korean Carrots - 150 g
- Boiled eggs - 4 pieces.
- Halved onions.
- Chicken breast - 1 pc.
- Marinade needs vinegar, salt and mayonnaise for lubrication.
Cooking process
Chicken breast is wrapped in foil and baked in a microwave or oven, then cooled. To reduce cooking time, you can marinate onions in vinegar in advance, the same applies to chicken breast.
The first layer is laid chilled chicken breast, cut into small pieces, smeared with sauce (mayonnaise). Pickled onions are laid out on this layer, then carrots - in Korean. The next layer is chicken eggs, crushed on a grater. Finishes the layers of canned sweet corn. The top of the dish can be decorated as desired.
Miner salad with carrots
Miner's salad is a tasty and healthy dish. It combines vegetables with lean meat, which allows you to get a satisfying and unusual dish.
Ingredients
- Beef fillet, can pork (tenderloin) - 300 g.
- 2 onions.
- 2 carrots.
- 3 pickles.
- 200 g of pickled champignons.
- garlic cloves to taste.
For frying, you need sunflower oil.
Cooking process
Beef (pork) is cut into thin strips with a sharp knife. Do the same with carrots. The onion is cut into half rings.
In sunflower oil, meat, carrots and onions are separately fried, excess fat is removed, transferring them to a paper towel. Pickled cucumbers are cut into thin strips. Peeled garlic is minced. Champignons must be prepared in the form of thin plates. If they are small, then they can not be cut. All prepared components are mixed in one deep bowl, then the salad is seasoned with any vegetable oil.
An appetizing and satisfying salad will turn out for any housewife if she takes a creative approach and imagination when preparing a dish.