Salad is perhaps the simplest dish that every housewife can cook. Cutting food and making dressing is very simple, you just need to decide on the ingredients. Among them may be vegetables, herbs, eggs, meat, fish, in general, almost everything that is currently in your refrigerator. Try to make a salad with crackers and beans, the recipe of which you will find in our article. Based on the basic option, you can experiment with the ingredients and make the dish vegetarian or add sausage or chicken. In general, focus on your own taste and preferences of your family and, choosing one of the three recipes offered to you, get down to business.
Salad with crackers and beans: recipe with mushrooms
For those who prefer vegetarian dishes, this recipe will come in handy, as this salad contains a large amount of protein, while at the same time there is almost no fat. It is tasty, satisfying and may well replace the second course at lunch. For him, take:
- an incomplete glass of dry beans (for salad it needs to be boiled) or a can;
- 1 salted or pickled cucumber;
- 2 medium carrots;
- 2 onions;
- 150 g of boiled mushrooms - chanterelles or champignons;
- a couple of slices of black bread for crackers;
- dressing mayonnaise;
- sunflower oil for frying.
Boil the beans if you prefer to cook them yourself. Then finely chop the onion and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. These vegetables need to be fried separately from each other in vegetable oil, and then add to the beans. Mushrooms also need to be fried, but if you use mushrooms, they can not be boiled, but simply cut fresh in neat slices and browned in vegetable oil. When the mushrooms are ready, they also need to be laid out in a common salad bowl, where beans, carrots and onions have already been placed. Next, add a diced pickle for taste. The salad is almost ready, you need to salt it to taste, pepper and season with mayonnaise, and in the dietary option - sour cream. The dish will turn out even more delicious if you pour a handful of rye crackers into it before serving - for this, cut brown bread into small slices and dry it in the oven, although, of course, you can also take ready-made crackers from the store. Add crisp bread at the very last moment before serving, otherwise crackers will get wet, become not too tasty and unpleasant in appearance.
Hearty salad with crackers and beans: recipe with sausage
If you prefer meat dishes, then you can cook a similar salad, for example, with sausage. It will turn out to be very nutritious, tasty, with a pronounced meat tint. The male half of your family will love this combination. For cooking you will need:
- 400 g of beans (this is just one jar);
- 3 hard boiled chicken eggs;
- 100 g of sausage - you can take boiled, or smoked;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 1 pack of crackers or a couple of slices of bread (sliced) to be browned in the oven;
- some greens to taste;
- a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise for dressing.
Throw the beans from the jar into a colander and rinse, let the excess liquid drain. Then cut all the ingredients into cubes, by the way, it will be unusual if you take several types of sausage for the dish. Mix everything together, add greens, for example dill, salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise. On top of the dish you can decorate with crackers, and just before serving mix them with the rest of the ingredients of the dish. It's just that preparing a salad with beans and crackers and sausage - all the most beloved and satisfying foods in one plate. If you want to make the dish a little more “dietary”, then instead of mayonnaise, you can add classic yogurt (without fillers) or sour cream. These dressings will not at all spoil the taste of the salad, but only slightly reduce its calorie content.
Original salad with crackers and beans: chicken recipe
If you have pieces of boiled or
fried bird, it’s quite possible to serve such a dish for dinner. Remove from your stocks:
- 1 can of beans;
- 200 g chicken without skin and bones;
- one onion;
- fresh cucumber;
- 100 g soft cheese;
- a little parsley (take half a bunch);
- 1 red bell pepper;
- for dressing, take 1 teaspoon of soy sauce, salt, black pepper, lemon juice, vegetable oil, a couple of cloves of garlic;
- 1 bag of ready-made crackers or 2 slices of bread that need to be cut into cubes and dried in the oven.
First, in a pan with a small amount of vegetable oil, fry the chicken fillet cut into small pieces, along with the chopped onion. Add a couple teaspoons of soy sauce. Put chicken, beans, finely chopped cucumber and parsley in a large salad bowl, as well as other ingredients - sliced bell peppers and diced (or grated) cheese. Pepper, salt, add a teaspoon of lemon juice and squeezed garlic. Mix everything well. Garnish with breadcrumbs before serving. The salad with beans and crackers and chicken is ready, it remains only to please the home with a new delicious dish.