The recipe for the “Death Room” salad is useful for a special occasion, when the hostess is given the task of feeding the guests, entertaining them and surprising them. By announcing the serving of this dish, the cook will certainly cause interest of all those present. After all, everyone wants to see what kind of death number he has to survive. In fact, there is nothing supernatural in the preparation of this snack. The main subtlety lies in the intrigue associated with the name and in the presentation.
Ingredients
Every good housewife has her own recipe for cooking any dish. So the death number salad can be done in different ways, using certain products. The end result should be tasty, satisfying and spectacular. There are products without which this dish simply will not work, while others can be changed to your taste. So, for example, some cook a salad "Death Number" with chicken, others - with pork. There is also a vegetarian version.
The unchanging attribute by which the desired effect is achieved during serving is pickled mushrooms. It should be champignons, and quite large, ideally - the same size. You can buy them ready-made or make them yourself.
In addition to mushrooms, boiled vegetables (carrots and potatoes), eggs, hard or cream cheese, onions (green or bulb), meat, as well as mayonnaise, spices and herbs are usually used. Optionally, add green peas, pickled or fresh cucumbers, olives. If the hostess does not like any of the products (for example, many do not like boiled carrots, someone does not eat eggs or onions), you can easily refuse it.
Pork recipe
This is a classic option. To prepare such a salad, you will need a can of pickled champignons, 200 g of lean pork boiled in salt water, carrots, potatoes, cucumbers and processed cheese - 2 pieces each, an average onion and 3 eggs. You can use any greens as a decoration, mayonnaise is suitable for dressing, some salt and ground pepper are also useful.
Meat, eggs, carrots and potatoes should be pre-cooked and chilled. To achieve the desired result, you will need a large flat plate and a deep bowl of a slightly smaller diameter (it would be nice if there is a cylindrical dish). Eggs and vegetables need to be peeled. Cut the meat into thin strips, chop the onion finely, and rub the remaining ingredients on a coarse grater.
Before you begin to collect the salad "Death Room", you can make sure and grease the dishes with a small amount of vegetable oil, but this is not necessary. Then, on the bottom of the salad bowl, spread the mushrooms with their hats down, on them the remaining products in the following order: onions, carrots, cucumbers, meat, cheese, potatoes, eggs. All layers are greased with mayonnaise, vegetables can be slightly salted and sprinkled with pepper.
Then the dish needs to be removed in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours or at night. Greens are used when serving dishes. But more about that below.
Bird recipe
If pork is not consumed in the family, it can be replaced with more dietary meat (chicken or turkey). The rest of the recipe is saved or replaced with some ingredients. For example, instead of pickled cucumbers, fresh ones are quite suitable, and a handful of olives will add piquancy to the salad. In this case, the sequence of products will be slightly different. First come mushrooms, then carrots, onions, cucumbers, meat, potatoes, olives (cut into thin rings), cheese and eggs. Each layer should be greased with mayonnaise and salted.
No meat at all
There is such an option. It is difficult to call it vegetarian, because the salad recipe “Death Number”, in addition to the mentioned product, contains mayonnaise, eggs and cheese. So adherents of plant foods are encouraged to abandon the last two ingredients. Mayonnaise, you can take a vegetarian (this also happens).
The result is the following composition: a can of champignons, a bunch of green onions, 2 large carrots and the same amount of potatoes, 3 small pickled cucumbers, a can of white canned beans. And, of course, salt, pepper, mayonnaise and herbs. You can use several leaves of lettuce or Beijing cabbage.
We spread the layers in the following sequence: mushrooms, onions, carrots, cucumbers, beans, potatoes. The top layer is generously greased with mayonnaise and covered with leaves of Chinese cabbage (or lettuce).
Serving to the table
Regardless of which recipe for the “Death Room” salad was used to prepare the dish, the main task of the cook is to effectively present it to guests. To do this, put on the table an empty flat dish lined with herbs. Those present, as a rule, are perplexed when they see a similar picture. When all the guests gather, the hostess announces that a death number will now be demonstrated. Then she takes out the workpiece from the refrigerator and gently but quickly turns the salad bowl onto the dish. The bowl needs to be removed immediately, and the Death Number salad appears on the table, a photo of which is presented at the very beginning of the article. What is the trick? But here's the thing: in case of adverse circumstances, the coup may be unsuccessful, and embarrassment will come out. Hence the name.
In terms of composition and method of preparation, the salad recipe “Death Number” practically does not differ from “Mushroom Glade”. Unless in the latter case, more greens are used to achieve the effect of "thick grass". The difference is that the “Mushroom Glade” immediately turns over and appears on the table in all its glory, and the “Death Room” is waiting in the wings and the audience.
Some tips for newbies
For those who have never cooked this dish, in order to avoid embarrassment, guests should adhere to such recommendations. First, grease the salad bowl with oil. Secondly, do not spare the mayonnaise by collecting the salad. Thirdly, slightly press down each layer so that it is denser attached to the previous one. And fourthly, before demonstrating your art in a society of strangers, it will not hurt to practice a little before relatives. In this case, an unsuccessful serving can be presented as a joke, and the salad as a result will still be eaten.
In general, the "Death Number" is not as scary as its name. Having prepared this appetizer once, the hostess can use it as a specialty. True, re-intrigue the audience is likely to fail.