Salad is a versatile dish.
It can be both an appetizer, including on the festive table, and an independent dish. Salad options with meat, fish, mushrooms, beautifully decorated with greens or olives, will decorate your holiday, and vegetable, seasoned with oil, vinegar, sour cream or mayonnaise, can be an everyday meal or a dietary replacement for lunch or dinner. In the cuisine of any country you will find many
salad recipes
: the Russian is famous for its Olivier and Herring under a fur coat, in Greece they prepare a
Greek salad with the famous Feta cheese, and it is impossible to imagine an American one without Caesar with fried chicken breasts Grilled. If you want to serve a new dish for dinner, then try making a
salad with sausage and crackers - it will be a nutritious addition to the table, as well as a completely independent main dish. To create it, you will need products that any hostess has in the refrigerator - sausage (ham, boiled or smoked), crackers, as well as several other ingredients that you can add based on your own taste and preferences. How to cook a salad with sausage and crackers? In our article you will find two options, or recipes, with which your menu will replenish with another original salad. This hearty dish can be compared to a sandwich - bread and meat at the same time. Your family, as well as guests at the holiday, will definitely like this combination.
So, method number 1: prepare a salad with crackers and sausage
For him you will need:
- 200 g of any cooked sausage or ham;
- 250 g (about 1/4 of a small head of cabbage) of white or Beijing cabbage;
- 1 can of any canned corn;
- 1 pack of ready-made crackers with the taste of salami, bacon, jerky , etc.
- 1 pc. medium-sized carrots and onions;
- 2 hard boiled chicken eggs;
- 150 g of grated hard cheese like "Parmesan";
- dressing mayonnaise and spices - salt, black pepper.
First chop the cabbage, grate the carrots and cheese on a coarse grater, finely crush the onions. Cut the sausage and eggs into small cubes. Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise (in the diet version you can use low-fat sour cream), sprinkle with salt and pepper. Crackers need to be added only before serving. They need to be poured into the salad and mix. Ham and eggs will make your meal hearty, and vegetables will add freshness, and, of course, replenish the body with vitamins and useful substances.
Salad with sausage and crackers has every chance to become a favorite dish for your family members.
Option number 2: Salad with smoked sausage
This recipe contains virtually no vegetables (except tomatoes), but is an excellent source of protein. Since this dish is very high-calorie, at lunch it may well replace a full second. For him, take:
- 150 g smoked sausage;
- 100 g grated Parmesan cheese;
- 2 boiled chicken eggs (you need both protein and yolk);
- 2 fresh medium tomatoes;
- 2 small cloves of garlic;
- 50 g crackers (this is a third of the package);
- 2 tsp. thick sour cream and vegetable (or olive) oil;
- 1 tsp mustard, salt and a pinch of black pepper.
Beautifully crush all the ingredients in the salad: crackers, smoked sausage, eggs, tomatoes and cheese should be beautifully sliced - in equal, even cubes. Squeeze or put garlic through a press. Combine all the ingredients and season with a sauce of sour cream, mustard, oil, salt and spices. Done! A little advice - if you do not plan to immediately serve a salad with sausage and crackers on the table, it is better to pour the latter before serving. Since dried bread, added to the dish in advance, can soak and make the salad not very attractive in appearance. Following these simple tips, as a result you will get a delicious dish. If you have not tried this salad, now it's time to cook it.