At the end of winter, our body begins to urgently need vitamins. And starting in mid-spring, radishes already appear, which have a whole range of nutrients. A sufficiently large number of different salads can be prepared from this product. Some radish salads are intended for everyday meals, but there are also those that will become a real decoration of any banquet table.
Spring salad
This dish is well suited for anyone who loves a large amount of greens and vegetables. Ham is also present here, which makes this dish attractive for the male part of the population. Necessary ingredients for creating a dish:
- fresh radish - 200 g;
- ham - 150 g;
- lettuce - 100 g (to improve the taste, you can use various varieties of herbs);
- 1-2 fresh cucumbers;
- a few tablespoons of olives;
- one zucchini.
The sauce here is very simple, for its preparation you need to take olive oil (if it is not available, you can use ordinary vegetable oil) and Provencal herbs.
How to cook?
To make the salad of radishes and cucumbers really tasty, it is recommended that you follow the instructions in the step-by-step instructions exactly:
- Let's start cooking with salad dressing - let the oil infuse and absorb the aromas of herbs. To create a sauce, you should take a small container in which mix about 100 ml of olive or vegetable oil with 1-2 teaspoons of Provencal herbs. Set the vessel with the refueling aside and proceed to the next step.
- Break lettuce into smaller pieces, cut olives in half.
- Rinse the zucchini and cut into thin, long longitudinal slices. Salt a little, add pepper and fry in a grill pan.
- Cut the radish into beautiful and thin slices, the cucumbers in half rings, and the ham in strips.
- Take a large plate on it, lay the salad leaves in a slide, then in a circle lay the slices of the fried zucchini nicely. Put chopped ham and radish in the center.
- Sprinkle the salad with olives.
- Pour over everything with a salad dressing prepared in advance.
Also, if you wish, you can add other vegetables to this salad of radishes and cucumbers: tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant.
If you want to use eggplant, then you will need to cut it into circles, about 1 cm thick, drizzle with a small amount of vegetable oil, add any herbs and fry in a grill or ordinary pan until cooked.
Ham and Radish Nutritional Salad
This salad can hardly surprise guests at the festive table, but for daily use it is exactly what you need. There is a necessary set of vitamins and nutrients for each person. Also, the benefits of this dish include the fact that the salad consists solely of simple and affordable products.
Grocery list
To prepare a salad of radishes of tomatoes and cucumbers, you need to take the following ingredients:
- fresh radish - 200 g;
- ham - 200 g;
- several potatoes (it is desirable to choose the same size);
- 100 g of tomatoes and cucumbers;
- one bell pepper;
- salad mix.
Just olive oil is used as a dressing, however, the recipe can be modified and the oil replaced with sour cream or mayonnaise. Therefore, how to season a salad, everyone decides for himself, according to personal taste preferences. You can also make a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise in equal proportions, it turns out very interesting and unusual, it is definitely recommended to try.
Cooking process
Cooking a salad can take some time due to cooking potatoes. That is why cooking should begin with the processing of this vegetable:
- Pour water into a pan, put washed potato in a peel into it. It must be cooked until cooked.
- Then place in cold water and clean. It is recommended to take small potatoes so as not to waste much time on its preparation.
- Now you should thoroughly wash the leaves of lettuce, you need to do this very well so that there is no sand left. Then tear them into small pieces.
- The next step is to prepare the remaining vegetables. Peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes need to be washed and cut into cubes or slices. Cut the ham into thin and long slices.
- Cut the potatoes into cubes, and radish into thin rings or half rings.
Put all the ingredients in a large, deep plate or bowl, pour with the chosen type of dressing, salt (if mayonnaise is used, salt is not necessary), mix and can be served.
Radish, sour cream and mozzarella salad
This dish is best served on a festive table, it has an attractive appearance. It uses popular and expensive ingredients, so it’s sure to surprise guests. To prepare this salad you need to take:
- 200 g of lettuce;
- 4 tomatoes;
- 2 medium cucumbers;
- 150 g of radish;
- 150 g mozzarella cheese;
- 70 g of olives.
As a dressing, ordinary sour cream is used here.
Cooking should begin with the preparation of vegetables:
- Rinse them thoroughly, especially with lettuce leaves. It is very difficult to wash the greens, because, as a rule, there is a fairly large amount of sand on it.
- Cucumbers, tomatoes and radishes should be cut into small or medium cubes.
- The same form of slicing should be with mozzarella.
- Cut olives in half.
- In a deep container, combine all of the above ingredients.
- Add a small amount of salt, you can use Italian herbs. If the salad is served on the festive table, then it should be laid out on a beautiful large plate or divided into several plates.
It is recommended to serve the dish with toasted croutons.
Peking Salad with Radish
The dish of these ingredients can be called universal, as the salad is perfect as an everyday meal, and it can also be served on the festive table. The cooking process is extremely simple and fast, there are no ingredients that would need heat treatment.
Before preparing a salad of radish with mayonnaise, you will need to prepare the following ingredients:
- 300 g of Beijing cabbage;
- 200 g of radish;
- 150 g smoked chicken;
- 50 g celery root;
- several cucumbers and tomatoes;
- 30-50 g of green onions.
To season salad, in this case it is best to use mayonnaise with garlic.
Step-by-step instruction
To make a salad, you need to do the following:
- Take a head of Beijing cabbage, cut it in half lengthwise and again along. After that, it should be cut across, with thin strips.
- All other vegetables should also be washed well.
- Grate Korean celery on a carrot grater, cut cucumbers and radishes into half rings, tomatoes in a cube or slices.
- Smoked chicken should be chopped into a small cube, finely chop the onion.
- Now the mayonnaise needs to be put in a deep plate, add a few cloves of grated garlic to it. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Put all chopped and prepared ingredients in a bowl, add the prepared mayonnaise and mix everything. You can add a little pepper and marjoram. You do not need to add salt, mayonnaise is already quite salty, otherwise the salad may be spoiled.
This completes the process of preparing a salad with radishes and green onions. In this case, you can significantly change the salad recipe. For example, instead of smoked chicken, take raw fillet and fry it in a pan with spices. Canned corn, green peas or beans are also suitable here. All these products will provide nutrition and some zest.
Ingredient Selection
Radish is a product that is compatible with almost all types of products. However, it is preferable to use it in vegetable salads. Dressings should be made of sour cream or mayonnaise. Light sauces based on olive or vegetable oil are also possible, but they are much less common. Moreover, a large number of various herbs must be added to the oil in order to fully reveal the taste of this product.
It is also worth noting that radish is not very combined with fish and seafood, so it is not recommended to use these ingredients in the preparation of various salads.
All of the above recipes are time-tested, so you should have no difficulty in cooking. Remember that cooking is a kind of art, so you can safely experiment, replacing some products with others, add various spices and herbs to sauces. Thus, each person can create a new dish that is still unknown to the world, which, possibly, will become very popular in the future.