Salad of cucumbers and eggs, the recipe for which, and not one, we want to offer you in our review, is a great light, but at the same time quite satisfying snack. By the way, even though, if you think about it, both of these ingredients are included in many other very famous salads like the same "Olivier", many housewives do not consider their combination as an independent dish. And completely in vain, it is worth noting. They are perfectly suited to each other in terms of their taste and create together a really wonderful dish. Possessing, by the way, a lot of advantages.
A salad of cucumbers and eggs, the recipe for which is extremely simple, is perfect for those who follow a diet. It is low-calorie, it can be eaten in unlimited quantities, while saturating and receiving a lot of useful trace elements and protein that is so valuable to the body. You can use it as a side dish for meat or chicken. In addition, when preparing a dish such as a salad of cucumbers and eggs, the recipe can be modified to your liking by adding certain ingredients. And in the end, get a completely different dish in terms of composition and taste. Moreover, it combines with many different ingredients. It can be vegetables, and ham, and meat, and even fish. And below we will tell you how to cook salads from eggs and cucumbers. And we give a lot of different recipes that you can take as a basis for preparing your own exclusive dishes.
Cooking features
First you need to boil hard- boiled eggs. Then they need to be cooled and, naturally, peeled. As for cucumbers, it is better to take, of course, young ones with thin skin. However, if large "elderly" specimens are caught, then there is nothing to worry about. They just need to get rid of the peel. And if you want, do not even cut, but grate. And in general, all the ingredients can be crushed arbitrarily - in cubes or circles, cut into thin strips or strips.
All components, as a rule, are simply mixed in a container and seasoned with sour cream or mayonnaise. True, there are also recipes for preparing such a dish as a salad with fresh cucumber and egg, which suggest a layered arrangement of ingredients. But this, too, is nothing complicated. The only condition that must be observed is that if the onion is laid according to the recipe, it is advisable to add it to the salad immediately before serving, so that it does not soak the whole dish with its smell and interrupt the aroma of the main ingredients.
Well, and, as we have already said, the main feature of this dish is that it can be modified by introducing additional components. And sometimes you can even replace fresh pickles with pickled or salted. There are also such options for cooking cucumber-egg salads. However, that there are a lot of them, now you will see for yourself. Because further we will tell you how to prepare a salad of cucumbers and eggs. The recipe suggested below will be basic. And after it we will offer you to get acquainted with several of the most popular variations based on it.
Simple salad: ingredients
It will take the hostess no more than ten to fifteen minutes to cook it, and in the end she will be able to offer her homemade or an independent quite satisfying dish, or an excellent side dish to the same meatballs or chicken. The components of the salad are the simplest. You will need to take two or three fresh cucumbers, the same amount of hard-boiled eggs, in a tablespoon of sour cream and mayonnaise. If desired, you can add parsley, but this is how anyone likes it. The same goes for onions. However, if you still decide to put it in a salad, it is better to take feathers, not onions.
How to cook
We cut clean cucumbers in half, and then cut them into thin semicircles. Already boiled eggs are peeled, then we also cut them, and arbitrarily. Add (as already mentioned, optional) onions and greens, salt, season with sour cream and mayonnaise. Mix thoroughly. Serve!
As you can see, even a child can cook such a dish, not like an experienced culinary specialist. However, this is a basic option. The following will be somewhat more difficult to prepare. We further offer a salad recipe with squid, egg, cucumber and cheese.
Time-tested and loved by many salad
The complexity of this dish lies in one thing - the need to mess with the preparation of squid. In principle, you can take a canned product, but it still has a somewhat specific smell, which not everyone will like. Therefore, hereinafter - a few words about how to cook these capricious marine inhabitants.
The most important thing is not to digest them. Otherwise, in the end, you can get a piece of rubber, and not delicious delicious squid meat. There are two easy ways. The first option: you need to boil a sufficiently large amount of water, add spices and salt there, and then lower each carcass for exactly one minute. Over time, you need to carefully monitor, because if the squid stays in the water longer, then its meat will eventually be tough. The second option: after boiling water, turn off the fire under the pan and place the squid in this water. Exactly five minutes. No more. That's all.
After cooling, you can return to the preparation of the salad. The rest is simple. Finely chop two eggs and the same number of cucumbers or rub on a large grater. You also process one hundred grams of hard cheese on it. Squids cut into strips. Mix all the ingredients, add a little salt and season with your favorite mayonnaise. It is advisable to let the salad stand for an hour.
Variations on the theme ...
Based on the option proposed above, it can be slightly modified. We bring to your attention a salad recipe with pickles and eggs, and squid, and sausage cheese. The components seem to be the same. However, the cucumbers are no longer fresh, but salty. And sausage cheese has a completely different taste than traditional hard cheese. The result is a completely different dish.
As for the preparation, the process is absolutely identical to that described above, and the amount of ingredients is the same. The only difference is that it’s better not to add salt to this dish at all, since all the ingredients themselves are quite salty. Would you like to modify such a salad? Add chopped pickled champignons and a few feathers of green onion to the ingredients. And again get a new dish. In general, as is already clear, you can experiment indefinitely. We will go further and tell how the salad with tuna, egg and cucumber is prepared. The recipe is below.
Egg and cucumber salad with tuna
The dish is prepared quickly enough, but it turns out very tasty and nutritious. Cut the cucumber, tomato and hard-boiled egg into small cubes. The first two ingredients are mixed and laid out on a plate lined with fresh lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with an egg. We free the canned tuna from the liquid, knead in a jar with a fork (not very finely), put it on top of the eggs. Then we water everything with dressing. To prepare it, you need to mix a teaspoon of mustard and lemon juice, diluting them after olive oil (two or three tablespoons). You can immediately serve.
Southern salad
As the main component of this dish we take four cucumbers and boiled eggs. Then we need lettuce leaves. Moreover, several types are desirable. Let's say an iceberg, arugula, and romano. In addition, you will need soft cheese. For example, mozzarella, which can also be supplemented with feta cheese (one hundred grams). And eight cherry tomatoes.
Cucumbers cut into thin circles, boiled eggs - exactly the same. We tear the salad with our hands, put all the ingredients in a salad bowl. Add the tomatoes cut in half. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Dressed with olive oil mixed with salt and favorite herbs.
Tenderness: Salad Recipe
Chicken, cucumbers, eggs and cheese - that's all that is needed to prepare such a hearty and delicious dish. Best of all, poultry fillet is suitable for its preparation. However, you can take other chicken meat, in addition, no one forbids replacing it with the same low-fat pork or beef. You can use ham. Well, this is all again from the field of variations on the subject. We will consider the method of preparing the basic version.
So, four hundred grams of chicken should be boiled in salted water and refrigerated. Then cut it into long pieces. Four cucumbers cut into semicircles. Eggs - also four things - quarters. We mix all this in a salad bowl, pour dressing with two tablespoons of olive oil or the same amount of mayonnaise, and then sprinkle with grated cheese (you need a hundred grams, not more).
Budget salad "Royal": recipe
Chicken, potatoes, eggs, cucumbers, mushrooms, cheese and a little red caviar - and in the end we get the “Tsar's” salad, which is no worse than its famous counterpart, which, according to the recipe, takes a lot of time and money. Yes, simple, but no less delicious.
So, boil two fairly large potatoes, three eggs, and also (separately, in salted water) grams of three hundred chicken fillet. Or a whole chicken breast (so cheaper). We cut three hundred grams of champignons into slices and fry them raw until all the liquid comes out and the mushrooms themselves are not gilded. In another pan we fry them with grated carrots (2 pcs.) And one chopped onion. Grate potatoes and a hundred grams of cheese (it is better to take Dutch). Two cucumbers (fresh) are cut into thin strips, eggs into cubes. Then we take a wide dish and begin to lay out the ingredients in layers. The sequence is as follows: first there is a “pillow” of potatoes, smeared with mayonnaise. Then pour the chopped cucumbers on top. And we put champignons on them. Water again with mayonnaise. On top we spread the frying first, then the fillet cut into thin strips. Mayonnaise. After which we lay out the eggs and cover everything with richly grated cheese. We send it to the refrigerator for several hours - let the layers get well saturated. Then we make a mayonnaise net on top and decorate with caviar.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are many recipes for making egg-cucumber salads. We have given only the simplest plus already more complex, up to the puff holiday. On weekdays, you can add the usual ingredients (peas, olives, cheese with garlic, tomatoes) to the base composition and thus diversify your menu with new dishes.