Fantasy salads can be prepared from various products, and the composition of the ingredients can be changed at your discretion. Therefore, the name is. Today we bring to your attention two different options. One of them includes only fresh vegetables and sausages, and the other - seafood.
1. Holiday salads "Fantasy" of cucumbers, tomatoes and sausages
Essential Ingredients:
- fresh red tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
- Feta cheese - 120 g;
- boiled chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- small fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- thick sour cream or high-calorie mayonnaise - add to taste;
- leaflets of green salad - 1 large bunch;
- iodized salt and allspice - add to taste;
- fresh herbs (dill, green onion, parsley) - in a small bunch;
- boiled sausage - 100 g.
The process of preparing a festive dish
All Fantasy salads are prepared very quickly and easily, and they turn out to be surprisingly beautiful. Thus, to create the next culinary masterpiece, you should take a large shallow plate and put on it leaves of green salad, which must be torn by hand. After that, in the middle of the dishes, it is required to place fresh cucumbers cut into 5 mm thick slices in a slide. Next, the vegetable must be poured with a thick layer of sour cream or mayonnaise, and sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs (parsley, leek and dill).
Next, you need to cut the tomatoes into slices, put them around the entire perimeter of the plate, and then place on them a quarter of hard-boiled eggs. After that, it is necessary to finely chop the cooked sausage, roll the wheels into beautiful "roses" and decorate them with the entire surface of the salad along with Feta cheese.
2. Original salad "Sea Fantasy"
Essential Ingredients:
- pieces of canned squid - 150 g;
- crab sticks - 150 g;
- seafood in spiced oil - 150 g (packaged);
- fresh medium cucumber - 1 pc.;
- ripe lemon - ½ large fruit;
- medium-sized fresh grapefruit - ½ pcs.;
- soy sauce - 4 large spoons;
- grain mustard - 2 large spoons.
Cooking process
Fantasy salads with seafood are prepared as quickly and easily as with fresh vegetables. To do this, you need to cut squids, crab sticks and fresh cucumber into medium slices, and then add seafood along with spiced oil to them. After this, it is necessary to separately prepare a dressing. To create it, squeeze the juice out of half a lemon, add soy sauce and mustard seeds to it. Now peel the grapefruit from the peel and films, cut the slices into small pieces and lay out the rest of the ingredients. The resulting mixture is poured into a container with seafood and mix well. It is recommended to put the finished dish in the refrigerator and let it stand for fifteen minutes.
How to serve to the table
Both vegetable and sea Fantasy salad (recipe with photos are presented above) is served for the festive dinner only in a chilled form, as an appetizer before the main hot dish. It is recommended to use them together with wheat bread, thoroughly mixing all the ingredients on a portioned plate.