A good culinary specialist is able to make a masterpiece from the simplest products - a celebration of the soul and stomach. Cheap salad is one such dish. Made from natural ingredients, mainly from fruits and vegetables, it is also very healthy.
Coleslaw - delicious and healthy!
Talking about the beneficial properties of cabbage today is pointless - everyone knows this very well. But to share recipes on how to make a cheap salad out of it is a completely different matter.
Coleslaw with carrots
To make this cheap salad, you will need cabbage, carrots, sugar, lemon juice, a pinch of salt and vegetable oil. Cabbage for this dish is chopped with thin straws, and the carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater. Sprinkling a lot of lemon juice, a little salt and sprinkled with sugar, knead it with your hands. After this procedure, juice should stand out, and the whole mass acquires a pleasant shade of orange.
After refueling, the salad is mixed and served.
Cheap cabbage salad with carrots and garlic
In almost the same way as in the previous version, this salad is also prepared. Just before kneading, crushed garlic is added to the mass. But sugar in this option should be abandoned altogether or flavored salad with just one pinch, as well as salt.
You can fill the dish with oil, sour cream or mayonnaise. From above it is recommended to decorate a hill of salad with carrot flowers or paths of finely chopped carrots, which scatter from the center, like the rays of the sun.
Cabbage salad with garlic and beets
If you replace the carrots with raw beets, then the salad will gain some piquancy. Its color will also change, becoming amazingly pearly. Moreover, at any time of the year it is the cheapest salad.
Its recipe can be slightly varied, making the dish compound: half the cabbage with a carrot, and half with a beetroot. If you put these two different salads in a salad bowl in triangles, it will be very beautiful and festive. So, choosing cheap salads for a birthday, you should not discount this recipe.
Cabbage and Apple Salad
Simple and cheap, you can make a vitamin salad, which is perfect for dessert. The recipe for its preparation is practically no different from a cabbage salad with carrots, which is replaced with an apple. But in this case, mash the cabbage before the chopped apple is added to the salad.
You can diversify the dish so that only part of the carrot is replaced with an apple. And you can include in the salad and other fruits: bananas, oranges, tangerines or pears. And as a dressing, sweet yogurt or whipped cream is quite suitable.
Who said cheap birthday salads are bad taste? Or maybe someone doubts that decorated with slices of orange and berries, fresh or candied, a sweet salad will be in demand at the festive table? Try it yourself and make sure that it will be the first salad bowl released on the table.
Garlic salads
In addition to cabbage, garlic goes well with carrots, cheese, boiled beets, hard-boiled eggs and other ingredients. It’s rare that a hostess will refuse to put spicy garlic salads on the table - cheap and tasty, but so adored by everyone!
Everyone knows garlic and carrot salads seasoned with mayonnaise or sour cream. Beetroot and garlic salads are not inferior to them in fame. Moreover, beets with garlic often "invite" ground nuts and prunes.
Salad "Mistress" - delicious, beautiful and piquant
The holiday table can be decorated with cheap and tasty salads, if prepared with desire. This recipe is as simple as all the previous ones. The dish is different in that several different salads are laid out in layers:
- carrot-garlic layer with dressing;
- cheese-garlic layer with dressing;
- a layer of beet-garlic dressing.
If desired, ground nuts can be added to the cheese mass, and raisins and prunes to beet and garlic.
Salad "Kiss of the mistress", or "French mistress"
This salad is as piquant as the previous one, which is called the "Mistress." In the very name of both salads lies some kind of duality: the sweetness of passion and the bitterness of separation, the inability to be together. So in the ingredients and layers of this dish, such a striking difference is noticeable.
Prepare "Kiss of the mistress" in the same layers as just "Mistress." Only the layers are slightly different:
- bitter layer - beet-garlic;
- sweet layer - carrot-raisin;
- piquant layer - cheese and nut.
The top of the dish is sprinkled with grated cheese and chopped cucumber. You can decorate with herbs or finely chopped carrots. Flowers from boiled beets and carrots will also look charming in a salad bowl on the festive table.
Daikon salads
The advantages of daikon are that it is quick and cheap to make salads from it. In addition, this root crop has an excellent cleansing property, spicy taste and it has an extremely large number of vitamins. Daikon goes well with a variety of vegetables and even fruits, so the range of its use in this area is very wide. Very often, these light and cheap salads are used for weight loss . Recipes of daikon salads can help the hostess diversify not only the daily menu, but also prepare a creative dish for the holiday table.
Daikon salad with carrots and apple
To prepare such a salad even teenagers can do it. The main thing in it is the ability to use such a simple device as a grater.
Chop apples, carrots and daikon, lightly add and add dressing to the mass: sunflower oil, sour cream, mayonnaise or home-made sauce. Everything is mixed - the dish is ready!
According to the same recipe, another salad is prepared in which the apple is replaced with pickled or pickled cucumber. You can even get along with carrots and daikon, but a salad with three ingredients has a wider palette of taste. This dish with crab sticks is especially tasty - it immediately becomes Japanese!
Salad "Lose Weight"
Especially for those who want to lose weight, this recipe exists. Cooking “Lose Weight” is as easy as all previous salads.
The ingredients for this dish are:
- raw carrots;
- fresh cucumber;
- daikon root;
- one hundred grams of spinach;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
Cucumbers are finely cut, and daikon and carrots are chopped on a coarse grater or cut into the smallest strips. Gently cut spinach. If you use young carrots, which have preserved fresh herbs, then it is recommended to use it in salad - in carrot tops there are a lot of useful substances: trace elements and vitamins.
Salad "Lose Weight" should not be seasoned with mayonnaise or sour cream, just sprinkle it with wine or apple cider vinegar. Lemon juice is also suitable for this purpose.
Fresh Cucumber Salads
Remembering the recipes for simple and cheap salads in the summer, you can not miss the cucumber dishes. Actually, these recipes are perfect for winter, because fresh cucumbers can be replaced with pickled or salted.
Corn Crocodile Salad
For this fun dish you will need to chop fresh cabbage, add salt and mash it. Add finely chopped fresh cucumber and canned sweet corn to the resulting mass.
The taste of any salad shades the sour apple grated on a coarse grater. To taste, they put greens in it: dill, parsley, spinach, green salad leaves. Fill it with oil.
In order to prevent the name of the salad from diverging from its appearance, it is appropriate to put a vegetable figure on top of it - a crocodile made from cucumber.
You can put the salad in the herring - it has an oval oblong shape. The mass can easily be shaped like a crocodile, and on top of the salad cover the cucumber rings. Reptile eyes can be made from corn kernels, or olives can be used.
Vitamin salad "Cocktail sunny"
This salad is best prepared in the summer or closer to fall, when all the ingredients in it are natural, grown in our gardens and kitchen gardens, and not brought from somewhere. Indeed, then in each component contains a piece of the sun, which is why the dish is called - “Sunny Cocktail”.
In addition to cucumbers, this salad contains cabbage, raw carrots, apples, tomatoes and bell peppers. Onions can be used both onions and green - who prefer. Greens are also added in accordance with taste preferences.
Cabbage is sliced with thin strips-noodles, cucumbers are cut into strips. Before slicing, it is recommended to peel the apples and cut them into cubes. Tomatoes are cut into slices, pepper - in half rings. Carrots are best grated coarsely or chopped with thin straws.
How to cut onions - each housewife decides for herself. In some families, large half rings are preferred; in some, a finely cut onion. And others completely ignore this delicious and healthy ingredient - but that is their right. You need to fill the salad with apple or wine vinegar and oil.
Salad Decoration
You can use boiled eggs to decorate the dish. It is easy to make mushrooms from them and make cute mice, boats or snowmen.
You can also use grated cheese, which is sprinkled on top of the dish, and from the green onions to make an imitation of grass.
Of the boiled egg halves, swans are perfectly made if one more cut is made on them, parallel to the main one. Having cut strips from the other halves, on the one side of which cut oval thickenings, swan necks are laid out from them, and beaks are cut from carrot slices.
The cheapest and most healthy products in the middle lane are cabbage, beets, carrots, daikon, radish and onions. Perhaps that is why salads from them are the cheapest and most healthy. But in the summer, tomatoes and cucumbers, radishes and green salad are added to these vegetables. And it is so important to enjoy this gift of summer and autumn to the very top so that there are enough vitamin reserves for the whole winter.