Salads with walnuts are very popular in our country. Now there is such a variety of recipes that it will not be difficult for a housewife to choose the right one depending on taste preferences and the cost of ingredients.
Dishes can be satisfying and dietary. Salads with walnuts due to this component mainly have a piquant taste.
"Cornucopia"
This dish will be very satisfying, because the ingredients are quite nutritious. For cooking, you need two smoked chicken legs or one breast cut into a small dice. The skin is cleansed in advance and all excess veins are removed.
Eggs (4 pcs.) Are boiled and chopped with cubes. 70 g of hard cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater. 100 g of chopped walnuts must be fried in a dry skillet.
Half of the onions are cut into a small square and poured with boiling water. Thus all bitterness comes out. One apple peels and rubs on a large nozzle.
50 g of prunes are well washed and cut very finely. It is now sold soft, so you do not need to soak it.
All prepared components are laid out in layers in the following order:
- chicken;
- onion;
- eggs
- an Apple;
- cheese;
- prunes.
A mayonnaise mesh is applied to each layer. The form must be made in the form of a horn. Salad with walnuts should be sent to the refrigerator for impregnation. Then it needs to be decorated with walnuts.
Around it on a dish you can lay out sprigs of greens and cherry tomatoes.
"Prince"
This salad, by its fullness, can replace the second dish, because it includes meat. For it, you need to boil 500 g of beef and tear with your hands into fibers.
Pickled cucumbers (6 pcs.) Rub on a coarse grater. Eggs (4 pcs.) Are boiled and also harvested on a grater. Squeeze two cloves of garlic through a press. Peel 50 g of walnuts from the film and fry in a dry pan.
Pickled cucumbers mixed with garlic. Salad is laid out in layers. The first is meat, and then cucumbers, eggs, nuts. All layers are slightly smeared with mayonnaise. The top layer is nuts; mayonnaise is not placed on top of them.
There is another variation of salad with the same name. It has some unusual ingredients, but their combination in the end turns out to be very original and tasty.
To prepare it, you need 1 bunch of arugula. She, along with mint, tears her hands into large pieces. 1 pear cut into thin slices and sprinkle a little with lemon juice.
1 tablespoon of honey to send to the pan and fry 8 slices of walnut in it. 100 g of hard cheese should be cut into a medium-sized cube. All ingredients are mixed and additionally sprayed with lemon juice. You can not overdo it with dressing, because the dish will become too sour.
Beetroot Nut
This salad (beets with walnuts and garlic) is prepared very simply. And the main time is cooking beets. It must be boiled until fully cooked. Then she rubs on a coarse grater.
2-3 cloves of garlic are passed through a press and mixed with beets. Walnuts are fried, and then rubbed a little in the mortar to feel small pieces.
All ingredients are mixed with vegetable oil or mayonnaise. For taste, you can still grate salted cucumber in beetroot salad with walnuts .
The dish can also be cooked with prunes. Soak a few pieces in advance and let it soften. Then it is chopped with a knife and mixed with other ingredients. In this case, the use of pickled cucumber is not justified. It does not go well with sweet prunes.
With pineapple
This exotic fruit adds a piquant flavor to the salad. To cook it, you need 4 eggs and 4 potatoes to boil and peel. These ingredients are rubbed on the middle nozzle in different containers.
1 onion is cut into thin half rings and poured with boiling water. 250 g of ham and 400 g of pineapple are chopped in small sticks. Walnuts are fried and put in a bag. It is necessary to hit it with a rolling pin several times.
All salad ingredients with pineapple and walnuts are laid out in layers. Each is smeared with sauce. Top should be pineapple, sprinkled with nuts. For the formation, a medium-sized salad bowl is used. Ready salad with pineapple and walnuts is sent to the refrigerator for impregnation.
There is another variation of pineapple salad. For it, you need to boil the chicken breast and cut it into medium-sized cubes. Cut the pineapple from the jar into medium slices. Lettuce leaves tear with hands on large parts.
Combine all ingredients with mayonnaise and mix well. Of spices, only salt is used. It must be remembered that pineapples from a jar must be filtered through a colander.
"Oriental"
This salad with walnuts attracts with its simplicity and piquant taste at the same time. To prepare it, you need to chop 0.5 kg of fresh cabbage, like on borsch. It is poured with a special marinade:
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil;
- 50 ml of vinegar;
- 25 ml of soy sauce;
- 2 tbsp Sahara.
Cabbage is set aside for impregnation. Fry walnuts and sesame seeds in a dry pan. Then they are added to the salad and mixed. The dish is ready. To make the taste more varied in the salad, you can use Beijing cabbage or blue.
"Favourite"
Cooking this salad with walnuts will take no more than 25 minutes. First you need to put the boil eggs (3 pcs.). 150 g of ham is fried in vegetable oil. Then it is laid out on paper towels so that excess oil is absorbed into them.
Half of Chinese cabbage is chopped into small strips. 4-5 pcs. walnuts are peeled and ground in a mortar. Here 5-6 drops of lemon juice and vegetable oil (1 tsp) are added, on which the ham was fried.
Cabbage and meat are combined and poured with peanut sauce. The eggs are peeled and cut lengthwise into 4 parts. The salad is laid out on a flat dish. The eggs are laid beautifully around him.
Salad with Cheese and Walnuts
This dish is quite light and is well suited as an appetizer for any celebration. For it, you need to rinse 1 head of lettuce well several times so that there is no sand left on them, and pick large slices with your hands.
Open 1 can of red beans and drain the water from it. She goes to the salad. Then the tofu cheese (200 g) is cut into small cubes and sent to the total mass.
Grate 1 clove of garlic and 100 g of walnuts on a fine grater. These ingredients are also sent to the salad. Mix all the ingredients with the addition of a few cilantro leaves. The dish is salted to taste.
If there are problems with the purchase of tofu cheese, then it can be replaced with any other, only with a salty taste.
"Full godfather"
This recipe for a salad with walnuts and chicken will be a great snack for men at the festive table. The name speaks for itself. The ingredients are quite satisfying and tasty.
For it, you need to boil 1 chicken fillet and leave it to cool right in the broth. So it will remain juicy and not weathered. Then the meat is cut into small cubes.
Fry 100 g of champignons in vegetable oil until golden brown. They are chopped with thin slices. Canned pineapples from 1 can are diced.
Grate hard cheese and chop a sprig of cilantro. All ingredients are mixed, salted and seasoned with mayonnaise. Before serving, you can decorate with a sprig of cilantro. Do not replace mayonnaise with sour cream. It is in this salad that the combination of ingredients then turns out to be inharmonious.
With grape
This chicken salad with walnuts has a sufficient number of capacious processes, but all of them are justified by the amazing taste and appearance of the dish. For it you need to prepare:
- 0.5 kg pitted green grapes;
- fillet 0.5 kg;
- walnuts - 50 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- 1 apple green;
- 3 eggs;
- parsley;
- mayonnaise;
- salt.
First, meat and eggs are boiled in separate stewpan. At this time, nuts are chopped with a knife. Cheese rubs on a large nozzle. The apple is peeled and also processed on a grater.
Eggs are peeled and shredded in the same way. Chicken fillet is well squeezed from the liquid and cut with medium squares. On a flat dish, you need to start laying out the layers.
First, meat is laid out over the entire surface and greased liberally with mayonnaise, because the breast absorbs it well. Then on top the layer is crushed with nuts.
Eggs are laid on them. This layer is lubricated with a little mayonnaise. The mass is again dusted with nuts. The next layer is apples. The top will be hard cheese. It is plentifully greased with mayonnaise. The salad is pressed by hands to slightly give it the form of a large bunch of grapes.
The entire surface is laid out in grapes, cut in half. Minimum space required. Salad with grapes and walnuts is sent for several hours in the refrigerator for soaking. Bon Appetit!
It is advisable to eat salad on the day of preparation. Otherwise, the grapes will put in too much juice and the consistency of the dish will deteriorate.
With boiled sausage
Increasingly, housewives are trying to diversify salads with various interesting ingredients. This dish gets a spicy taste due to walnuts and capers.
First you need to boil 3 eggs and chop them in small cubes. 200 g of cooked sausage cut into thin strips. Two fresh tomatoes need to be cut into small slices.
150 g of hard cheese is ground on a fine grater. 100 g of walnut must be cut with a knife into small crumbs. 100 ml of sour cream is mixed with 1 tsp. mustard. All ingredients (including 20 g of capers) mix well with salt to taste and season with cooked sauce.
It is worth noting that boiled sausage must be purchased in good quality. Otherwise, the salad will turn out tasteless. And also this dish should be served immediately after cooking and should not be stored in the refrigerator - it will lose its taste.