Most salads served at the festive table are seasoned with mayonnaise. But these are not the only dishes. There is still meat or chicken, usually baked in the oven, a side dish to them and all kinds of snacks and sandwiches. All this is generously washed down with wine. As a result, at the end of the holiday dinner or lunch, the guests go home not only with pleasant memories, but also with a heaviness in their stomach.
This picture is familiar to many. Perhaps that is why more and more housewives leaf through cookbooks and not only them to find a suitable salad recipe without mayonnaise. And often, to their surprise, they find that there are a lot of such salads, even more than with mayonnaise. Literally every country in the world can offer its own signature recipe for salads without mayonnaise. Probably the most famous of them are Russian vinaigrette, Greek salad and Italian caprese. Any of these dishes will definitely decorate the festive table.
Vinaigrette is a famous
Russian salad with a French name. The word "vinaigrette" comes from the French "vinaigre" - vinegar. But they prepared it long before the appearance of foreign chefs in Russia. The classic recipe uses vinegar with vegetable oil to season. Hence the name.
First you need to boil vegetables for the salad: 2 potatoes, 1 beet and 2 carrots. Dice these products and pickles. 1 chop onion and 100 g sauerkraut finely chop. So that all vegetables are not stained with beet juice, you need to mix them separately from the dressing, and then combine and season with the remaining dressing. To make it, you just need to mix in equal proportions 3% vinegar and vegetable oil, add a teaspoon of sugar and half a teaspoon of salt.
Another unusual recipe for salads without mayonnaise is caprese. For its preparation, you will need the ingredients favorite by Italians. These are tomatoes - 3-4 pcs., Mozzarella cheese - 3-4 balls, basil, a little olive oil, a pinch of salt and pepper. Cut the tomatoes and mozzarella into circles. Put them on a plate one at a time. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Garnish with basil. This is how one of the famous Italian dishes is simply cooked.
And, of course, you must definitely prepare a Greek salad. Or at least once try. This is probably the easiest salad recipe without mayonnaise. But from this no less tasty. Cut cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers into large cubes. Dry the cheese a little and cut into a cube too. To prepare the dressing you will need lemon juice and olive oil in a proportion of one to two, a little salt and pepper. Mix and season everything. Garnish with olives. That's it, the Greek salad is ready.
These are not all salads without mayonnaise. Recipes for others can be easily found in any cookbook. They can be with various salad dressings, consisting of different vegetable oils, lemon or orange juices, vinegar and other components. And it is not necessary that these will be only vegetable salads. They can be with meat products, and with fish, and even with fruits. Any housewife will surely be able to choose suitable salads without mayonnaise. With a photo of step-by-step preparation or not, it is not very important. In skilled hands, any salad will surely turn out delicious and beautifully designed.