Any housewife who takes care of her family will certainly include all sorts of salads on the menu. They are tasty, healthy and bring a pleasant variety to the diet. Sometimes these salads are festive, compound, mayonnaise, such as olivier, herring under a fur coat, "mimosa" and others. Sometimes these are light, spring vitamin salads like white cabbage with herbs and olive oil; tomatoes and cucumbers with pickled onions and so on.
Let's make bright colors in everyday life
However, you will not cook puff salads every day: after all, they are heavy for the stomach, and they contribute to overweight. And the same summer salads from vegetables from the garden quickly get bored. What to do? There is a solution, as always: these are salad recipes with fetax cheese. Not only do such dishes have many variations, they are also elegant, dietary and sophisticated. Today we will talk about them and discuss several types of salads for the daily family menu.
But first, let's say a few words about the cheese itself.
What kind of "beast" is this?
Fetax cheese is somewhat similar to feta cheese. As a rule, it is prepared from sheep’s milk, but sometimes they take cow, goat and even buffalo. Fetax cheese has a soft, delicate texture and a sophisticated sweet and sour taste. It contains protein and calcium, so useful for teeth and bones; it also includes special bacteria that kill harmful microbes in our body and promote good digestion; cheese is rich in magnesium, sodium, phosphorus and zinc. That is, a salad with fetax cheese will not only give your family members aesthetic pleasure and add a Mediterranean touch to your daily diet, but it will also bring considerable health benefits.
So, we offer several recipes for dishes with this wonderful product.
Greek salad with fetax cheese
For its preparation you will need: a small Beijing cabbage, a bunch of Lollo Bionda salad, several (3-4 pieces) tomatoes, medium-sized turnip onions, olives or olives (preferably seedless), 350 grams of fetax cheese, a couple of red bell peppers, parsley, olive or sunflower oil, pepper, salt and lemon. And also a big deep salad bowl, so that it would be convenient to mix the ingredients.
Let's start cooking.
Salad with fetax
cheese is usually made shortly before serving so that the juice does not have time to drain from the vegetables. However, its preparation will not take you much time - a maximum of twenty minutes.
Cabbage should be cut into small squares, lettuce leaves torn by hand. Then you need to finely chop the parsley, and free the bell peppers from the seeds and turn them into slices of about 2 by 2 cm. If you want the salad to look more bright, you can take one red pepper and one yellow. Tomatoes need to be cut, of course, into rather large slices, and onions - into thin half rings. Let's open a little secret: before preparing any salad with fetax cheese, you need to put a box with this dairy product in the freezer for ten to fifteen minutes.
Then the cheese will be better cut and will not stick to the knife. So, cut it into cubes, and divide the olives or olives into halves. Next, mix all the ingredients in a bowl, salt, pepper, season with olive (sunflower) oil and juice from half a lemon. Fragrant, healthy and beautiful salad is ready, you can invite your family to dinner!
Caesar salad"
Another popular dish is Caesar salad with fetax cheese. In order to cook it, you need to take an iceberg salad, half a kilogram of chicken, 200 grams of fetax cheese, 150 grams of cherry tomatoes, 200 grams of black bread, 3 tbsp. l grated parmesan, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, black pepper and salt. First of all, you need to cook homemade crackers. Bread should be cut into small cubes and either dried in the oven or fry in a skillet until golden brown. In the meantime, crackers cool, do the rest of the ingredients. Chicken fillet must be cut into small slices and fry.
Break the salad with your hands, cut fetax cheese into cubes.
Cherry tomatoes should be halved. Now start assembling the salad. Spread the iceberg salad on a large, flat dish, scatter fetax cheese, chicken pieces, tomatoes and crackers on top in an art mess. Salt all this beauty, pepper, season with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Then sprinkle with parmesan and you can serve. For lovers of piquancy, before pouring olive oil into a salad, you can squeeze one clove of garlic into it - then the dish will get a slightly sharper flavor. Such a salad with fetax cheese is cooked for about thirty to forty minutes. Well, it disappears from the table, as a rule, much faster, almost instantly!
Mediterranean Cabbage Salad
What other recipes for salads with fetax cheese are in demand among housewives?
This is, for example, a Mediterranean salad with cabbage. For it you need: 200 g of white cabbage, a jar of canned corn, 200 g of fetax cheese, seedless olives for decoration, as well as dill, olive oil, balsamic, pepper and salt. Cabbage should be finely chopped, put in a bowl and a little wrinkled. From the corn, drain the juice and add to the cabbage. Cut fetax cheese into cubes, chop dill.
Mix all this, salt, pepper, season with olive oil and sprinkle with balsamic vinegar. Garnish with chopped black olives on top and serve. It turned out a delicious and healthy salad with fetax cheese.
In principle, you can invent recipes for dishes with this product yourself: you just need to have a lot of vegetables on hand and have a drop of imagination.
Little conclusion
However, fetax cheese is suitable not only for salads. Pies and snack cakes, canapes, pizza, sandwiches and desserts are prepared with him; bake vegetables, poultry and meat with this cheese; it is even added to mashed soups and used in the preparation of pasta; served with watermelon, pitted and poured with honey ... In general, as they say, there would be cheese, but there is a recipe for it. Cook with pleasure! We wish you inspiration in the kitchen, home admiration and, of course, bon appetit!