Beef goes well in salads with cucumbers, and they use vegetables in any form - fresh, pickled barrels, canned in marinade. This meat is not only suitable for those who follow a diet or adhere to religious canons. Tasty and healthy to eat it for absolutely everyone. For the preparation of salads use the most diverse parts of the carcass. Most often, meat is boiled for cutting, but grilling or baking in the oven is possible. For some dishes, soft beef is manually fiberized.
Salad with beef and cucumbers goes well with any dressing and a variety of additional ingredients, whether it be vegetables, mushrooms, herbs and spices. Like other salads, you can make a finished dish in different ways, beautifully serving it on the table. These are mixed sliced products in one salad bowl, portioned serving separately on a plate for each guest or the original design for a buffet dinner.
In the article, we will consider several interesting recipes for beef and cucumber salad, what ingredients will be needed to prepare them, what is the reason for the dish. Separately, we dwell on a beautiful serving on the festive table. If you want to surprise guests, then carefully study our recipes and consider the presented photos of ready-made dishes.
Cooking Beef For Salad
For beef salad with cucumbers, choose fresh and young meat . The color of the raw meat should be bright red or dark pink if veal is acquired. Pay particular attention to the color of the layer of fat. It should not be yellow, which indicates the old age of the animal. Be sure to visually inspect the piece so that it is not weathered and does not have dark areas. When pressed, the meat should return to its original form. If a dent remains, then the beef has already been frozen. For stewing or cooking cutlets, this is acceptable. And for beef salad with cucumbers, it is better to use only fresh meat. Also smell the purchase. Beef does not have to be "sweetheart."
Ready-made meat is used in the salad. First you need to boil it in salted water with the addition of your favorite spices - bay leaf or allspice peas. After boiling, it is best to drain the first water, rinse the meat from “noise” and pour fresh water. When the broth boils a second time, they make the fire quieter and remove the pop-up films with a slotted spoon. Cooking beef is better in the evening. Ready meat is removed from the water and laid out in a separate container for cooling. It is more convenient to cut it in cold form and use a well-ground knife.
Boiled meat turns out to be incredibly tender and soft, so sometimes for a salad of beef and cucumbers it is disassembled into individual fibers simply by hand. Soups are subsequently prepared from the broth, or cereals are boiled in it for garnish. It will turn out very satisfying and tasty.
You can also bake meat in the oven in a culinary sleeve or wrapped in foil. Delicious salads are obtained from beef tongue.
Tomato Recipe
To prepare beef salad with cucumbers, you will need the following ingredients:
- 150 grams of boiled meat;
- 3-4 cherry tomatoes;
- 1 small or half a long fresh cucumber;
- 1 red bell pepper;
- 20 grams of your favorite hard cheese;
- large lettuce salad leaves (you can use different varieties);
- 1 tsp sesame seeds;
- for refueling - 1 tbsp. l soy sauce, 3 tbsp. l refined vegetable oil; a pinch of black pepper to taste.
Salt is found in soy sauce, so before adding it to the salad, first try it so as not to salt it.
How to make a salad
Boiled meat is cut into cubes or thin strips. Tomatoes are washed and cut into 2 or 4 parts. From paprika, remove the tail and seeds, cut the internal jumpers, rinse the inside and out, and then cut into thin strips. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. From the cucumber, cut the tails and chop in strips. The peel, if desired, can be peeled off with a knife. Wash the lettuce leaves and pick directly into small pieces with your hands. Mix the dressing ingredients separately in a bowl, pour the finished salad on top and mix. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top and you can serve.
Salad Olivier
We are all accustomed to the traditional Olivier salad with sausage and pickles, but such a dish will be very tasty if the sausage is replaced with boiled beef and the cucumbers are used fresh. Consider the composition of the salad in more detail:
- Boiled beef - 150 grams.
- 3 chicken eggs.
- 3 potatoes.
- 1 carrot
- 1 can of canned green peas.
- 1 fresh cucumber.
- A bunch of green onions.
- Spices - salt and black pepper - to taste.
Season salad, as usual, with mayonnaise.
Cooking
Wash the vegetables and boil until cooked, drain the water and leave the pan with the lid open to cool. Then peel and peel potatoes and carrots into small cubes. Hard boiled eggs for 3-4 minutes. Drain the boiling water and put in a bowl of cold water to make the shell easier to clean. After cleaning, crush the eggs with a fork on the plate and pour in the salad bowl.
Drain all the liquid from the jar of peas. Wash the onion and cut into ringlets. Peel the cucumber and cut into cubes. It remains to salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise. That's it, the salad with beef and fresh cucumber is ready!
Capercaillie Nest
The next version of the salad looks like a bird's nest. How to achieve such an interesting design, we will describe further in the article. First, consider the ingredients necessary for its preparation:
- Boiled beef - 250 grams.
- 1-2 potatoes.
- 5 quail eggs.
- Any hard cheese is 50 grams.
- Pickled cucumbers - a couple of pieces.
- 1 small onion.
- Mayonnaise.
- Vegetable oil for frying.
- Fresh greens - dill and parsley - a few branches.
Product Preparation
The meat is boiled in salted water and cooled to room temperature. Then cut into thin strips. Raw potatoes are grated on a fine fine grater (as for Korean carrots) and fried in vegetable oil in a pan. Be sure to stir all the time so that the thin slices do not burn out. The potato should acquire a golden hue and resemble the straw of a bird’s nest. After frying, put it on a napkin so that the glass has excess oil.
Eggs are used to decorate the nest. You can simply boil them and put them in the center of the finished dish, or you can chop them in a separate container and mix with cheese and mayonnaise, add chopped greens and form small “eggs” with your hands, laying them in a nest from above.
Peel the onion and chop in half rings. You can previously remove the bitterness by dousing the onion with boiling water.
Cucumbers take only pickled. They are harder and crunchier than pickled ones. Try them; if there is a lot of vinegar, rinse under wastewater. Cut them into small cubes or thin semicircles.
The formation of the "nest"
For a salad with beef and pickles, prepare a large dish, preferably with high edges (not flat). At the bottom lay the meat and make a mayonnaise net. Onion is poured on top, previously squeeze the liquid from it (if you poured boiling water over it). The next layer is cucumbers. Smeared with mayonnaise they do not need. Next, in the middle of the dish spread grated cheese. Lubricate the surface with mayonnaise. Pour the cooled straws of fried potatoes along the edges of the dish, forming a nest. In the center, pour the chopped greens onto the cheese and lay out either whole boiled quail eggs or cooked by hand, as in the photo in the article. The dish looks spectacular, so guests will be delighted with the new salad with boiled beef and cucumbers.
Walnuts
This is a light layered salad, it is advisable to serve it in portions, for each guest separately. Prepare these foods:
- 120 grams of boiled beef.
- Pickled Cucumber - 1-2 pieces.
- 2 or 3 hard boiled eggs.
- Shredded walnuts - half a cup.
- For dressing - mayonnaise plus 1-2 garlic cloves squeezed through the openings of the garlic.
All ingredients are crushed and layered in the following order:
- Meat.
- Mayonnaise.
- Diced Cucumber.
- Crushed eggs.
- Mayonnaise.
- The top of the salad is sprinkled with chopped walnuts.
To form a portioned salad, a ring cut from a two-liter plastic bottle is often used. Its sides are greased with mayonnaise, so that when removing the form, it can easily be removed.
Sunflower Salad
Consider another spectacularly decorated salad with beef and pickles, which will decorate any holiday feast.
To prepare it, you will need the following ingredients:
- Boiled beef meat - 300 grams.
- 1 or 2 boiled carrots.
- 2-3 potatoes, cooked "in uniform".
- Pickles - 2 pieces.
- 3-4 hard boiled eggs.
- Seedless black olives - 1 can.
- Onions - 1 pc. (optional).
- Salt, black pepper, mayonnaise.
- Chips Pringles - 1 small package (for decoration of petals).
This salad is layered, so after preparing and cutting all the products, lay them out alternately, lubricating each layer (except cucumbers) with mayonnaise.
The top surface is designed as in the photo in the article. The function of sunflower seeds is performed by chopped olives in half, and the petals are made from chips, laying them around the circumference.
Pomegranate Salad
Another puff salad with beef and cucumbers, the recipe of which is described below in the article, will surprise guests with its beautifully designed appearance. It will take 300 grams of boiled meat:
- 2 potatoes;
- 1 beetroot;
- 1 onion;
- 1 pomegranate;
- 2-3 pickled cucumbers;
- Mayonnaise.
- For pickling onions, you need 1 tsp. sugar, as much vinegar.
Potatoes and beets need to be boiled, peeled and chopped finely. Boil and chop the meat. Pour onion with boiling water, add sugar and vinegar and hold in the marinade for 10 minutes, then squeeze. Cucumbers are cut into thin semicircles. Pomegranate is cleaned and stored separately.
The salad is laid out in layers, each layer is smeared with mayonnaise. Meat is traditionally laid at the bottom, onions and cucumbers are on top, then the turn of potatoes and beets. Top salad sprinkled with pomegranate seeds.
Original design
There are a lot of salad recipes with pickled cucumbers and beef. However, the combination of meat with fresh cucumber is also delicious.
You can simply mix the boiled meat, chopped into small cubes, with herbs, purple onions, chopped tomatoes or bell pepper and mayonnaise, wrap all this in thin plates of cucumber with a cling film (like sushi) and put it on a large dish.
Any salad laid out in baskets of fresh cucumbers looks beautiful. To do this, divide the long vegetable into several parts 4-5 cm in height, align the bottom surface for stability and remove the middle, leaving the bottom untouched. Fill the basket with salad and garnish with a sprig of greens.
As you can see, you can not only cook deliciously, but also serve dishes beautifully on the table, delighting your family and friends. Cook with pleasure! Bon Appetit!