Violets salad is a surprisingly beautiful spring dish that can be safely served to the festive table. It is worth noting that there are a great many options for preparing such a culinary creation. However, there is still a common between them - this is a way of decorating in the form of beautiful flowers.
So, today we will present you two different ways of preparing an original and very tasty dish.
Puff salad "Violet": a step-by-step recipe for creating a spring dish
To prepare such a delicate and unusual salad you will need to purchase:
- smoked aromatic ham - 300 g;
- non-acidic prunes, 200 g;
- small fresh champignons - 400 g;
- hot Korean carrots - 200 g;
- medium-sized fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- table salt, sunflower oil, ground allspice - add to taste during frying mushrooms;
- fat mayonnaise - to lubricate the layers;
- fresh large radish - to create inflorescences;
- boiled chicken yolk - to simulate nectar;
- small shortbread cookies - to create a "pot";
- spinach leaves - to decorate the whole dish.
Product Preparation
Salad "Violets" is a fairly popular dish among those who love and plant homemade flowers. After all, such housewives will not miss the opportunity to decorate with flowers and a festive table. But before forming this original dish, it is necessary to process all purchased products.
It is required to take a fragrant smoked ham, separate the meat from the bones and skin, and then finely chop. The same should be done with steamed pitted prunes. It is worth noting that if you find this dried fruit too sour, its quantity must be reduced by the widow, otherwise the dish will turn out not as tasty as we would like.
Among other things, the Violet salad, the recipe of which we are considering today, includes such ingredients as fresh cucumbers and mushrooms. Vegetables need to be washed, peeled, if it is bitter, and then cut into thin straws. Mushrooms, however, must be finely chopped and fried in sunflower oil until soft, pre-seasoned with salt and pepper.
Processing Ingredients for Decoration
For a beautiful decoration of the presented dish, it is necessary to rinse the leaves of spinach, wash the radish and very finely chop it into circles. You also need to boil a chicken egg, take out a cool yolk from it and grate it on a large grater.
The process of forming a dish
Violets salad is formed in the form of a portioned dish on a small flat plate using a molding ring up to 10-13 centimeters in size. Such a culinary creation is created as follows: on the bottom of the selected dishes, it is necessary to place products such as smoked ham, chopped non-acidic prunes, fried champignons, fresh cucumber and hot Korean carrots in layers. In this case, all of these components should be lubricated with fat mayonnaise.
After the salad "Violets" is formed, you can safely proceed to decorate it. To do this, carefully remove the molding ring. It is recommended to close the sides of the dish with small shortbread cookies. Next, the surface of the salad should be lined with fresh spinach so that it mimics the leaves of a home flower. At the end, thin circles of radish should be nicely placed on the greens (put them in the form of a rose), and pour a little grated egg yolk in the center. As a result of such actions, you will receive an original and very beautiful dish, which is desirable to stand in the refrigerator for no more than 50-6 minutes, and then serve to the guests.
Mixed salad "Violet": recipe, photo of the dish
This dish cooks much faster than the previous one. All the ingredients included in its composition must be processed, mixed together and decorated in a similar way.
Required Products
For such an unusual salad, we need:
- aromatic ham - 150 g;
- hard cheese - 105 g;
- boiled chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
- fresh parsley - a small bunch;
- garlic - 1 small clove;
- fresh radish - for decoration;
- mayonnaise - add as you wish;
- Fresh spinach - for decoration.
Product Preparation
Before forming such a salad, it is necessary to chop aromatic ham, boiled chicken eggs (except for one yolk) into small cubes, chop fresh parsley, and grate garlic and hard cheese. You should also prepare products for decoration: rinse the leaves of spinach, thinly cut the radishes into circles, crush the cool chicken yolk with a spoon.
Formation process
Mixed salad "Violet", the recipe of which is very simple, is formed quite quickly and easily. To do this, combine in one dish and flavor with mayonnaise ingredients such as ham, eggs, herbs, grated garlic and cheese. Next, the resulting mass must be laid out in the form of a pot type, and on top decorate with spinach, radish and chicken yolk in the same way as in the previous recipe.