Vegetable salads are ideal dishes for a festive and casual table. They are tasty, nutritious, most valuable sources of natural vitamins. And, most interestingly, from the same components you can cook a great many excellent dishes. Let's go on an educational trip to the most interesting ways of cooking?
In the Hutsul mountains
“Hutsul Varya” is the name of this peculiar salad of boiled vegetables. Food recipes in different regions of the Carpathians - the homeland of the dish - differ in individual ingredients. The classic version is this. You will need 3 medium-sized beets, 300 g white beans, 300 g seedless prunes, vegetable oil and salt with ground black pepper. How to cook this salad of boiled vegetables? Recipes recommend, firstly, bake beets in the oven, and not cook. Then it will be much tastier and will not lose a single gram of its vitamins and other beneficial substances. Secondly, beans should be soaked for 8 hours before you boil. Otherwise, it will take too long to bring it ready. Or use a canned can. Still how to diversify our salad of cooked vegetables? Recipes collected in different Transcarpathian regions sometimes suggest putting young boiled or canned asparagus beans in pods into it. In the people in many regions of Western Ukraine, as well as in the north of Moldova, they call it the scapula.
In the Hutsul mountains - continued
Let's get back to the cooking order! So, wash the beets and boil or bake until soft (until cooked). Remove, let cool, peel, cut into small cubes, like a vinaigrette. Rinse soaked beans in advance and boil in salted water also until tender. Then lay in a colander, strain, add to beets. If you cook a salad of boiled vegetables with spatulas, the recipes are advised to trim the ends at the pods, remove the “strings”, then also boil in salted boiling water, strain, let cool. Cut the pods into 4 parts and lay with the rest of the vegetables. Now it's the prune's turn. Wash it, dip in boiling water for 15 minutes, let the water drain, cool and chop into medium sized pieces. Mix all the components of the dish, salt and pepper to taste, season with oil. If you want, you can lightly sprinkle with vinegar. Everything, "cooking" is ready! By the way, in such a salad of cooked vegetables without mayonnaise, it would be nice to pour a handful of chopped walnuts. Great they are combined with plums and beetroot!
Everyone's favorite vinaigrette
Fans of this snack, no doubt, can not be counted. As well as the options for its preparation. What enterprising housewives do not put in a dish! And apples, and pickled or lightly salted, pickled cucumbers, and even salty green tomatoes. We will make such a salad of boiled vegetables without mayonnaise - with herring. The layout of the products is as follows: 3 medium potatoes, 1 beetroot, 2-3 carrots, onion, about 100 g of sauerkraut and 1 herring of weak salting. Boil vegetables in a peel, cool, peel and cut into cubes. Chop the onion into thin half rings. It’s great if there are feathers of green - with them vinaigrette will turn out even tastier. At the cabbage, strain the brine. If it is too acidic - rinse under running water and squeeze slightly, chop. Clean the herring, take out the bones. If the fillet is too brackish - soak in milk and drain. Cut into small, neat slices. Put all the vegetables in a salad bowl, salt, pepper, season with oil and mix. Lay pieces of herring on top. Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley or dill and carry to the table. By the way, the salad recipe is originally Russian. And the name, alas, is French. Although in France this is not a separate dish, but a sauce!
Herring under a fur coat - preparation
No less popular and loved by the people is a salad of cooked vegetables in layers, called "Herring under a fur coat." Probably, a baby knows how to cook it. But again, a rare hostess will not add something of her own to the traditional recipe to make a dish with a twist. Someone “sprinkles” his hat with a grated yolk, giving the dish a bright, festive look. Someone necessarily puts sliced olives on fish, and someone - a layer of Korean carrots. We offer you a salad of boiled vegetables, in layers, with herring and green (of course, by color, and not by maturity!) Apples. What you need: the herring of spicy salting (2 pieces, filet without bones and skin), 5 large potatoes, 2 carrots, as many apples and small red beetroots. As well as onions, salt, sugar, vinegar, a little mustard and mayonnaise for the sauce.
Herring under a fur coat - the final stage
Boil vegetables in a peel, cool, peel, grate on a coarse grater. Cut herring into small pieces, onion - half rings. Sprinkle it with salt, sugar, pour a little vinegar and mix. Leave it for 20 minutes to marinate. From mayonnaise and mustard, sugar, salt, vinegar, prepare a thick sauce. Put the first herring on the dish, slightly sprinkling it with apple cider vinegar. Then the onion. And grease the sauce. Next is the potatoes. Salt it a little, sprinkle with ground pepper and season it with sauce. Following is a layer of carrots, and also salt, pepper, sauce. Finally, grate the apple and immediately lay. You should not do this in advance, because the apple flesh quickly darkens. Here you can do without sauce. The topmost layer is beetroot. Cover it with sauce too, sprinkle with finely chopped green onions or parsley stalks. And put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that all the ingredients are saturated with each other's juices. Yummy work out, believe me!
Simple yes delicious
The most simple and simple salad of cooked vegetables can be prepared so that it creates a serious competition for gourmet delicacies. Take the same traditional Olivier, without which no triumph was once complete. We are used to all its components literally buried in mayonnaise. And if you make this simple salad of boiled vegetables like that. Boil 5 large potatoes, 3 carrots, 8 eggs (3 of them will go to the sauce). Clean everything, cut into cubes or cubes. Add 200 g of ham or boiled sausage chopped in the same way, 1 large green apple, to the taste of green peas, 1 chopped onion. Mix the ingredients, add salt and season with not fat, high-calorie mayonnaise, but such an excellent dressing: mash the yolks with a fork, add a teaspoon of ready mustard, about 50 g of sugar and 20 g of salt, a pinch of ground turmeric, coriander, dill seeds. Pound everything thoroughly. When the mass becomes homogeneous, begin to gradually add vegetable oil, rubbing all the time. It will require a total of 300 grams. At the very end, add vinegar and ground pepper to taste. Well, it's a great salad, right?
Beetroot Salad
And also try to cook a salad of boiled vegetables with oil based on only 3 components: beets, walnuts and garlic. Boil 3 beets in a peel, cool, peel, grate on a coarse grater. Grind with a knife 200 g of walnut kernels. Squeeze a small head of garlic through the garlic shed. Mix the ingredients, season with vegetable oil, add a couple of drops of lemon juice, salt. And to the table! Eat for health!