Any festive event is complete without such a dish as salad. And this is not surprising. After all, salads are a healthy, tasty and satisfying creation.
At the festive tables you can find a diverse number of salads: vegetable, mushroom, meat, fruit and so on. Each mistress has her own original recipes. It is important that the products used to make salads are fresh and of high quality.
Salads are a cold dish. Each salad consists of at least two ingredients, seasoned with either sunflower oil, or mayonnaise, or sour cream. Fruit seasoned with yogurt. The choice of dressing depends on which dish you want to get: hearty or light.
Salads are appetizers. In this article, we consider recipes for preparing a salad with mushrooms and tomatoes, and cheese.
Process start
All products must be fresh. It will be especially wonderful if the vegetables used are collected from their garden, mushrooms are picked personally from environmentally friendly places, cheeses and meat are from their farm. Then the dish will turn out environmentally friendly and safe.
To make the salad delicious and beautiful, the correct and beautiful cutting of the ingredients is very important. In stores you can buy special curly knives that allow you to cut vegetables in the form of flowers and other shapes. Proper salad dressing is 70% success.
Wash, peel and chop all necessary ingredients thoroughly. The meat for meat salads is usually cut into cubes, sausages, vegetables and fruits - into strips or cubes.
We love tomatoes and mushrooms very much!
Salad with mushrooms and tomatoes, and cheese, of course, is the favorite dish of many. Let's take a closer look at how it is done.
This salad can be made both in layers and mixed.
Any mushrooms are suitable: ceps, boletus, chanterelles, champignons. Rinse thoroughly and cut into cubes. Some people prefer to grate them. Then the onion is peeled, finely chopped and fried in a pan until it is a beautiful golden color. Mushrooms are placed on top of the onion. All together, fried for about ten minutes. The blank for one layer is ready.
Tomatoes need to choose solid. If they are soft, then the salad will turn out to be liquidish. Selected tomatoes are washed and diced.
For this salad, you can add smoked sausage, cut into strips. If the salad is not puff but mixed, then canned corn can also be added.
Cheese must be hard. It must be grated on a coarse grater.
Next, lettuce layers are formed: the first - mushrooms with onions, the second - tomatoes. Dressed with mayonnaise. The third layer is smoked sausage, with mayonnaise on top. Next, grated cheese and herbs (dill, parsley). Salad with mushrooms and tomatoes and cheese is ready. Minimum ingredients, maximum pleasure.
Chicken - a delicious ingredient in a salad
Any meat present in the salad gives an interesting taste and aroma to the dish. Especially if it is the most tender chicken meat.
Salad with chicken, mushrooms, tomatoes and cheese will turn out very tasty and hearty. Moreover, it is easy to prepare. As in the previous recipe, all the ingredients are prepared first: vegetables and mushrooms are washed, peeled and chopped. Cheese is grated. Chicken meat must first be boiled, and when it is ready, cut into cubes or tear with your hands into fibers (approximately 1 cm x 1 cm).
Fry onions and mushrooms. This is the first layer of lettuce.
The second layer is tomatoes and mayonnaise.
The third layer is chicken.
The fourth layer is pickles, cut into small cubes. Everything is seasoned with mayonnaise.
Next comes the cheese and herbs.
Salting a salad with chicken, mushrooms, tomatoes and cheese is optional. Because the dish contains mayonnaise, pickles and cheese. And the broth in which the meat was cooked should have been salted.
Holiday Salad Isabella
Everyone’s favorite Isabella salad always appears at every feast. Because it is hearty, and healthy, and easy to prepare, and just very tasty.
Salad ingredients required: chicken, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese, eggs. Tomatoes (3 pieces) can be taken both simple and cherry. With the latter, the salad will be prettier. Cut them into quarters. Mushrooms (300 grams) cut lengthwise. It is advisable to take champignons. Fry with onions (1-2 pcs.). Boiled chicken (300 grams) divided into fibers. Eggs (3 pieces) boil and cut. This salad uses mozzarella cheese, which is cut into large cubes.
The ingredients are ready. You can lay a salad with chicken, mushrooms, tomatoes and cheese layers (in this case, you can use another cheese grated). All ingredients are mixed and seasoned with olive oil (or vegetable oil). Salt, pepper and seasonings are added to taste.
Smoked Chicken, Mushrooms, Cheese and Tomato Salad
Although it seems that in many salads the ingredients are the same, but this is not entirely true. It is worth changing one ingredient to another, and you get a completely different salad with a different taste and aroma. For example, if in the salad of mushrooms, cheese, eggs, tomatoes, and chicken described above, smoked is used instead of boiled chicken, then the taste of the future salad will change significantly.
It is important to choose smoked meat. Well, if this is a home-made product. But not everyone has the opportunity to keep their household. Therefore, you can buy meat in stores. Fortunately, it can be found in any supermarket. For salad, smoked meat can, like boiled, be divided into fibers, or can be cut into strips. All other ingredients are cut in the same way as in previous recipes. Korean carrots can be added for pungency. It will allow you to change the taste and color of the dish. The salad can be layered or mixed and seasoned with oil.
The layers are distributed as follows: first - mushrooms fried with onions (porcini, champignons); the second is tomatoes; the third is smoked meat; the fourth is Korean carrots. All layers are smeared with mayonnaise. Grated cheese sprinkles on top. The whole dish is decorated with a leaf of parsley or basil.
Salad Tips
Each hostess has her own secrets of preparing a tasty, healthy, satisfying, and even beautiful salad. Let's consider some of them:
- To cut the ingredients turned out smooth and beautiful, the same in shape, you need to use curly knives or a special vegetable slicer.
- Vegetables can be used both boiled and raw.
- You need to serve salads in special salad bowls. If this is done on a regular plate, it will turn out not quite beautifully and appetizingly.
- Mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream.
- It is advisable to season tomatoes with lemon juice rather than vinegar.
- Boil eggs for at least ten minutes.
Afterword
Salad with mushrooms and tomatoes, and cheese on the table will appeal to all guests. After all, it is not only tasty, but also beautiful, healthy. Not only adults, but also children will like it. As additional ingredients, you can add crackers, canned peas, Korean carrots, beans and so on to the salad. Therefore, I would like to advise that at each table he becomes a frequent guest.