Delicious meat salads are served not only in addition to the main dish, but can also be a fully-fledged independent dish that replaces dinner. They are able to diversify any menu, including a festive one, as they look more interesting and more complicated than vegetable snacks.
Meat in a salad
Surely every housewife has her own recipe for a delicious salad with meat. Absolutely all meat snacks belong to hearty dishes. The degree of calories and nutrition will depend on the type of meat selected. Most often, chicken and beef are used to make meat salads, but there are salads, the main ingredient of which will be lamb or pork. Everything will depend on the preferences of the hostess and her household.
A big plus of meat snacks is that almost all salad recipes with meat are simple and easy. They can be mastered even by an inexperienced culinary specialist. Preparing meat salads quickly, do not require special effort or knowledge. The advantage of salads with meat is that they can be served both in cold and in hot form.
You can use any meat for salads: smoked and salted, pickled and fried, boiled and grilled. In addition, mushrooms, vegetables, cereals, and even some fruits are combined with meat.
As for dressing, delicious salads with meat are obtained with mayonnaise, mustard dressing, garlic sauce. There are salads where healthy olive oil is used as a dressing. Also on top, salads are decorated with chips of crisps, fresh herbs, slices of vegetables or fruits, croutons, etc.
Today we have selected for you the most popular recipes for meat snacks and tell you in detail how to prepare a salad with meat quickly and without any special culinary hassle.
With vegetables and champignons
This salad option can replace a full-fledged dinner, as it also contains hearty meat, crispy pleasant vegetables, and a lot of fresh herbs. To prepare, you will need:
- Beef - 260 g.
- One onion.
- 220 g of champignons.
- Oil (any).
- Lettuce leaves.
- Bell pepper - 2 pcs. (different colors).
- Salt.
Cooking method
To prepare a delicious and satisfying salad with meat and mushrooms, you must first deal with meat. Beef is cut into long pieces and boiled in water with salt. You can boil it in one piece at once, but in order to save valuable time, we advise you to cook the meat immediately in portioned slices.
Onion finely chopped into even cubes. In a small amount of vegetable oil, it must be fried for five minutes. Mushrooms are cut randomly and sent to the onion. The salad with meat and mushrooms is very tasty due to the combination of soft boiled beef, fried mushrooms in the mouth and crispy bell pepper. By the way, we recommend that you cut the pepper into long strips, so it will be more noticeable in the salad, giving it a bright color and richness in taste.
It remains to combine all the ingredients, slightly salt them and mix thoroughly. You can fill up such delicious hearty salads with meat, as mayonnaise, and regular vegetable oil. We spread a salad slide on green crispy leaves. Sprinkle with fresh herbs on top.
Smoked Breast and Bean Salad
Salad recipes, in which smoked chicken is the main ingredient, are a godsend for any housewife. Smoked chicken breast gives the appetizer a spicy and very pleasant taste, allows you to experiment with other components of the dish.
Would need
- 370 g smoked chicken.
- 150 g of mushrooms (champignons or oyster mushrooms).
- A can of canned beans.
- A pair of chicken eggs.
- 120 g of cheese.
- A clove of garlic.
- A pair of onions.
- Mayonnaise.
- Greenery.
- Salt.
How to cook
The longest stage in the preparation of this delicious salad with meat is the boiling of eggs, so we put them to boil at the very beginning. While the eggs are boiling, we do mushrooms and onions. Cut the champignons into four parts (depending on their original size), chop the onion into a small cube. Fry mushrooms and onions in a small amount of oil.
We cut the boiled eggs into cubes. Smoked chicken fillet cut into long slices. Combine these two products with fried mushrooms and onions. It remains only to open a can of beans, drain the excess brine and pour it into a salad bowl. Mix everything thoroughly, add salt, and add ground pepper to taste.
Garlic is grated, mixed with cheese. Add to the salad. We knead a couple of the table. tablespoons of mayonnaise. Smoked breast salad is decorated with a sprig of parsley or any other fresh herbs.
Puff salad with meat
This recipe suggests preparing a full-fledged independent dish. This salad (in layers) with meat and potatoes is so satisfying that it can easily replace lunch or dinner.
Essential Products
- Two onions.
- Four large potatoes.
- 200 g of mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons).
- Meat (pork, beef, chicken) - 250 g.
- Canned green peas - 100 g.
- Mayonnaise.
- Boiled chicken egg - 3 pcs. (for decoration).
- Salt.
- Spice.
- For decoration - greens.
Cooking
What requires cooking is put on the stove first. It will be potatoes, eggs and meat. Do not forget to add salt to the pan with water. The potato will not burst from this, the eggs will be cleaned faster, and the meat just does not cook in unsalted water.
While some products will cook, others (onions, mushrooms) must be fried. Onions are cut in half rings, mushrooms are advised to cut into long slices.
Peel the boiled potatoes, let cool and cut into cubes. We do the same with eggs. The meat can be cut into slices or strips so that it is more noticeable in the salad. We spread the prepared ingredients in random order, slightly add each layer. It remains to add peas on top (do not forget to drain the excess liquid from the jar) and mayonnaise. Serve this delicious salad with meat on a lettuce leaf or in a small salad bowl (bowl), garnished with greens.
Olivier with meat. Classic recipe
Many people in Russia during the preparation of Olivier salad recall some French chef who invented this dish and gave it its name. Did you know that Europeans consider Olivier a truly Russian salad? In the cookbooks of America or Great Britain you will not find the word "Olivier" in the recipe, the salad will be called Russian salad.
As a rule, cooking olivier, housewives (to save time) use cooked sausage. In fact, a classic salad with meat is being prepared. The most commonly used beef or veal. One of the main components of the salad is potatoes. Chefs are advised to take one potato per person.
Grocery list
The following ingredients must be prepared:
- Potato - 3 pcs.
- Boiled beef - 200 g.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Chives.
- Green peas (canned) - 1 b.
- Pickles - 4-6 pcs.
- Mayonnaise.
- Salt.
How to cook
Beef for salad is boiled in water, flavored not only with salt and peas of pepper, but also with bay leaf, coriander and other spices for meat. After cooking, the beef cools, cut into cubes and sent to the dishes for mixing. Eggs are also boiled in salted water, cooled, peeled and cut into small pieces. Add them to the meat. Now let's move on to chopping onions and cucumbers.
There are many options for slicing Olivier salad products. Someone prefers to feel all the ingredients, so he cuts everything large. Other housewives love small cubes.
Drain the liquid from the peas. A pinch of salt. A couple of spoons of mayonnaise. Mix gently. If you are not lazy, forget about boiled sausage and “walk through the classics”, then the recipe for this delicious salad with beef meat will not disappoint you.
Salad with Potatoes, Meat and Pickles
Despite the simplicity of the ingredients used, this salad can be pampered to households not only on weekdays, but also served at the festive table. A hearty and full-bodied salad will not leave indifferent any capricious gourmet.
Essential Products
- Pork - 200 g.
- Potato - 4 pcs.
- Two eggs.
- A pair of pickled cucumbers.
- 3-4 cloves of garlic.
- Chopped walnuts - 3 tbsp. spoons.
- Greenery.
- Salt.
- Mayonnaise.
Assembly of puff salad
This dish can be attributed to puff classic salads with meat. The bottom layer is potatoes. It must be boiled in its uniform, cooled after cooking, rid of the peel and grated. Add a little chopped garlic to the potatoes. The next layer is boiled pork. In order not to spend a lot of time cooking pork, cut it into small, long slices in advance. Immediately after cooking, the meat can be added to the salad.
After the meat, pickles take their place in the salad. Do not forget that each layer should be smeared with a spoon of mayonnaise. We will only salt the potatoes and meat, pickled cucumbers do not need salt. Next come boiled eggs, grated on a coarse grater.
Depending on the number of products and the size of the plate on which the salad is laid out, the dish may consist of two or even three circles with repeating layers.
Salad is decorated with fresh herbs and a scattering of fragrant and healthy walnuts.
Appetizer with pickled meat and prunes
As we have already noted, meat in a salad can be combined with almost any product, dried fruits are no exception. To prepare a tasty hearty salad you will need:
- 250-300 g of pickled meat (lamb, beef).
- 25 g of prunes.
- One leek.
- Canned champignons - half a can.
- A pair of strong tomatoes.
- Mayonnaise.
- Lettuce on which the salad will be laid out.
Marinade
To make the meat in the salad soft and soft, we recommend using soy sauce (2 tbsp.), Vinegar 9% (1 tsp), caraway seeds, lemon juice, salt, olive oil, pepper, a pinch of sugar for marinade. Cut the meat into small cubes and send to the marinade for a couple of hours.
While the meat is pickling, we deal with the rest of the ingredients. Onions crumble finely enough. Champignons are cut into small slices. Cut one tomato into strips, leave the other to decorate the salad. Prunes - in cubes.
We take the meat from the marinade, dry it a little on a paper towel. We collect all the products together, add a pinch of salt and mayonnaise. We form a hill (or any other form) on a large juicy salad leaf.
Thai meat salad
A delicious salad with pickled meat can be prepared according to a Thai recipe. It seems to many housewives that exotic snacks can only be ordered in a specialized restaurant or tasted during a foreign holiday.
Today we offer you to cook a delicious salad with meat at home. In its own performance, the dish will turn out much tastier and more appetizing. When cooking for yourself, you don’t overdo it with the sauce, as careless catering chefs do, and you will use exclusively fresh and high-quality products for cooking.
Essential Ingredient Set
You will need:
- Beef - 170 g.
- ½ of red, green and yellow bell pepper.
- Fresh cucumber. The volume of cucumbers in sliced form should be exactly the same as sweet pepper.
- Sesame seeds - a pinch.
- Olive oil.
- Half a head of Beijing cabbage.
- A pinch of salt.
- Pepper.
Thais use simple but harmonious ingredients to marinate beef. The sauce results in a piquant, slightly sweet and slightly spicy:
- Soy sauce. No extra salt will be used in the marinade, as the classic soy sauce is quite salty.
- 5-6 cloves of garlic. The more garlic in the marinade, the tastier and softer the meat will be.
- Ginger. But this product is not worth putting a lot. It will be enough to rub a small piece of ginger on a fine grater. In total, it is about one teaspoon.
- China. a spoon of liquid honey.
- 2-3 tbsp. l olive oil.
- A quarter of a lemon.
Cooking method
From the above ingredients, prepare the marinade and put in it beef cut into long strips. The meat will marinate in the cold for about three hours. If time permits, then you can leave for a longer period. The longer the meat is in the marinade, the tastier it will be. It is very important that parts of the marinade, such as garlic and ginger, are minced as much as possible. In the future, you will not have to catch pieces from the marinade when the time comes to fry the meat.
When the beef is cooked, we proceed to the assembly of the salad. At the bottom of a deep plate we put the leaves of Beijing cabbage, torn by hand. The pieces should be large enough. Cucumber and multi-colored sweet peppers are cut into thin strips. If you want the salad to be more spicy, you can add slices of hot chili pepper (also straws, pitted).
Sesame seed gives a special piquancy to this salad. In order to enhance the effect, we advise to lightly fry the seeds in a dry frying pan before adding them to the dish. We get the meat from the marinade and also send it to the plate. It remains to pour a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and mix well, so that the vegetables are combined with the sauce, and sesame seeds are wrapped in meat pieces.
Tender salad with a heart
A very tender, but at the same time satisfying and tasty salad is obtained from pickled cucumbers, boiled vegetables and fried beef (pork) heart.
Would need:
- Two potatoes.
- A pair of onions.
- One carrot.
- Two chicken eggs.
- Pork or beef heart - 350 g.
- Pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
- Mayonnaise.
- Canned peas.
- Salt.
- Spice.
Cooking process
The salad will use a boiled heart. But before cooking, it is recommended to soak the meat for a couple of hours in cold water. Water changes every thirty minutes. After soaking, we send the heart to cook. You can add a little salt to the water, a couple of peppercorns, bay leaf.
How much to cook meat? As the saying goes, the longer the better. It takes about two hours of cooking to make the heart soft and crumble into fibers. You can reduce the time if you use a slow cooker or pressure cooker. Ready meat needs to be cooled at room temperature.
Boil chicken eggs in water with salt. This will help to clean them faster and easier after cooking. Potatoes and carrots are also boiled. After we get the vegetables, peel and cut into cubes. The size of all the ingredients in the salad should be approximately the same. Try to make the cubes of cucumbers, meat, vegetables even and similar in size.
From the canned peas, remove the marinade in which it was located. Pour the peas in a salad bowl. Mix all the prepared ingredients. A little salt, pepper.
It is recommended to season the salad with mayonnaise just before serving. Unsalted and not seasoned salad can be stored in the refrigerator for about two days. If mayonnaise has been added, then we recommend immediately to eat, not leaving for tomorrow.
Turkey Meat Salad
White meat of chicken or turkey is very often used in meat salads. It facilitates the dish, making it less high-calorie. We offer you to cook a light, almost dietary meat salad with turkey.
Products:
- White meat - 250 g.
- One apple.
- One onion.
- A small carrot.
- Green peas (canned.) - 1 b.
- Olive oil.
- Salt.
- Spice.
- Greenery.
- Sesame seed.
Cooking
Turkey meat must be boiled. You can add a bay leaf, a little pepper with peas and a pinch of salt to the broth. Cut the onion into very small cubes. Grind carrots with a grater. Opening a jar of peas, drain the liquid, pour the peas to the rest of the ingredients.
When the turkey is cooked, cool the meat and cut into long strips. Can be disassembled into fibers by hand. The salad dressing will consist of olive oil, a pinch of salt, finely chopped fresh dill and lightly fried sesame seeds.
If you need a more nutritious and high-calorie option, then to the above ingredients just add boiled pork or beef, a couple of boiled potatoes and season the salad with mayonnaise.
Advice
After cooking, it is not necessary to cool the meat for the salad. Warm meat snacks are appreciated by guests and give housewives more time to relax from the kitchen.
The longer the meat is cooked, the more tender the dish will turn out. In some salads, it is advised not to add cubes or straws, but meat fibers. You can get them from a piece of meat only after a long cooking.
If frozen meat will be used for salad, then before cooking, defrosting should be carried out only at room temperature.
To make the boiled meat for the salad tender, add a few tablespoons of lemon juice to the water where it is cooked.
To make the meat more flavorful, we recommend stewing or frying it with vegetables.
If stew will be used in the salad, then during cooking it is recommended to lubricate the pieces with sour cream or sweet mustard.
Do not be afraid to experiment. You can’t spoil the salad with meat!