Try to make a bast basket salad. This dish will become a truly spectacular decoration on your table, and its taste will not leave anyone indifferent. Below are a few options for making salad, including dessert.
Salad "Bast basket": the secrets of cooking
Essential Ingredients:
- 300 grams of pork;
- 2 boiled potatoes;
- 100 grams of carrots in Korean;
- 1 pickle;
- 3 onions;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- 150 grams of pickled champignons;
- mayonnaise and dill to taste.
For marinade:
- water (150 grams), apple cider vinegar (50 grams), sugar, salt.
Cooking
Salad "Lukoshko", the recipe of which you will find below, is not prepared so quickly. Therefore, if you want to make this yummy to the arrival of guests, then you need to start the process in advance. First you need to finely chop the onion and pickle it in the prepared marinade from the above components. This process should take place within six hours. At the end of this time, you can begin to form a layered salad.
Do mushroom basket
Salad It will come out very beautiful, its surface will resemble a basket with mushrooms. To get exactly that, you first need to take a rather spacious and high plate and start creating.
First, grease the container with odorless vegetable oil or line it with cling film, then sprinkle finely chopped dill along the edge of the plate. Now put the mushroom caps on a plate, legs up. Sprinkle them with pickled onions. Next, onion you need to grate boiled potatoes on a coarse grater. We add this layer a little and coat with mayonnaise.
We put finely chopped boiled pork on top, and chopped cucumbers on it. A layer of pickled onion is laid on them. Then, which has already become a good tradition, put potatoes, grease with mayonnaise. And now let's break the tradition a bit, and put Korean carrots on the mayonnaise layer, and grated cheese on it. Top cheese smeared with mayonnaise.
Finish cooking
You think that now it’s certainly possible to set the table and start tasting bast basket salad? But no, you still have to be patient, and again, at 6 o’clock. That is how much this dish should stand to soak well and become one. We need this so that it can easily be turned over without violating the integrity of the culinary composition.
Now is the time to get our six-hour salad from the refrigerator. We take a plate and cover it with it on top. It is better to call an assistant for insurance. With him alone, you can deftly flip the plate, and the salad will already be in another bowl. Now you can serve the dish to the table and try how delicious it turned out.
Variations on the theme: salad “Bast basket” with tongue
Tongue lovers can replace pork with this ingredient and make a tongue snack. You can go the other way, changing the salad radically. Why not replace mushrooms with mushrooms? You can use the store or assembled with your own hands. It's nice to walk through the September forest and collect not just a basket, but a whole bag of mushrooms! After all, these mushrooms do not grow one at a time, but in whole colonies. If the mushroom picker is lucky, he will certainly bring home at least a couple of buckets of these gifts of the forest.
True, after boiling them there will be several times less, but in any case, enough for a salad. Honey mushrooms can be pickled for the winter with vinegar, and if the size of the freezer allows, then boil, cool and put them in storage there. Then, at any time, it will be possible to get the mushrooms, boil them again, cool and make a salad with the tongue.
What else and how to put in a salad?
In addition to 150 grams of boiled mushrooms, you will need 250 grams of boiled and peeled tongue, 50 grams of bread sticks, 100 grams of green peas and the same amount of cheese. We also need 2 boiled chicken eggs, a couple of carrots and as many large potatoes.
This option is preparing faster than the previous one. To simplify our task, we will immediately coat almost every layer in a separate bowl and then lay it on top of each other.
In the layout of layers, complete freedom of action is allowed. The main thing is to alternate multi-colored products so that they shade each other. After the last layer is laid, coat it with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated cheese on top. From green peas and carrots, you can make flowers and lay them out along the edge of the dish. Boiled mushrooms are placed on top of the salad.
Sweet arrangement in a basket
However, they do not only salad “Bast basket” with meat, vegetables and mushrooms. Photo, on which a basket of watermelon with fruits looks so seductive, arouses the desire to make the same beauty. And how spectacularly a fruit basket will look on a table! To make such a salad, take a watermelon, wash it, wipe it and draw a carved handle of the basket and its edges in the chosen place. Now you need to make your dream come true with a sharp knife.
Juicy pulp can be eaten right there. We fill the basket with berries, cut fruits and pour on top with a small amount of heated juice in which gelatin is dissolved.
To do this, first in a glass of cold boiled water, soak a tablespoon of gelatin for 20 minutes. Now in another bowl we heat almost to a boil (up to 80 °) a glass of orange or pineapple, multifruit juice. Remove it from the heat and pour into the juice, stirring gelatin dissolved in water. The mixture should completely cool down and then it can be carefully poured onto the fruit and berry mix, which is located in the basket.
After it hardens, serve dessert to the table.