Here are the original recipes for Tiger cub salad, based on boiled or smoked chicken, sausage, ham or red fish. All these dishes will perfectly complement the festive table and will please not only children, but also adults - with exquisite taste and beautiful serving.
Description
You can improvise with salads in the kitchen quite often. This is an inexhaustible source of new ideas that allow you to creatively prepare a culinary dish. And the original salad serving will decorate both the festive table and the ordinary one.
It is known that children sometimes refuse to eat some foods that are necessary for healthy development: meat, fish, vegetables, and so on. Thanks to the interesting serving of any dish, including salad, the child can eat with pleasure and joy what will be useful to him, without even noticing it.
Salad "Tiger cub" for a child can be prepared from various components. The main thing is that they are fresh, well-compatible, useful. And beautiful, fabulously decorated.
As a dressing, it is recommended to use sour cream or homemade mayonnaise, which is not difficult to prepare.
Serving this salad will also be interesting for adults, as it will bring joy and variety to everyday life. After all, all adults come from childhood.
Sausage
The traditional Tiger Salad, loved by many children, can be prepared from the following components:
- boiled sausage - 200 grams;
- boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
- boiled carrots - 400 grams;
- fresh cucumbers - 200 grams;
- pitted olives - 10 pieces;
- boiled potatoes - 400 grams;
- onions - 150 grams;
- salt - 5 grams;
- ground black pepper - 2 grams;
- homemade mayonnaise - 200 milliliters.
Cooking
This dish can be prepared in layers (in the form of a cocktail salad) or mix all the ingredients (except carrots, olives and a portion of egg white), season with homemade mayonnaise, salt and pepper, laying out the resulting mass in the shape of a tiger head.
For a layered dish, it is necessary to alternately place the ingredients on a flat dish in this way:
- Shredded potatoes.
- Diced sausage.
- Finely chopped cucumbers.
- Chopped onion.
- Chopped eggs.
Each layer is smeared with home-made mayonnaise.
Garnish the “tiger cub” with carrots, olives (mustache, stripes, nose, eyelashes) and part of the protein (cheeks, eyes), chopped on a fine grater. Also pupils from pieces of cucumber, from a sausage to form a mouth.
With boiled chicken
This tender meat is so wonderful combined with mushrooms and other vegetables, which create a good contrast with this protein ingredient. Therefore, for the preparation of children's salad "Tiger" with chicken, this component is taken as the basis - in the form of a boiled breast (400 grams). And:
- fresh mushrooms (any) - 200 grams;
- boiled eggs - 6 pieces;
- pickled cucumbers - 200 grams;
- onion - 80 grams;
- raw carrots - 100 grams;
- boiled carrots - 200 grams;
- fresh greens - 100 grams;
- salt - 12 grams;
- olives - 100 grams;
- vegetable oil - 20 milliliters;
- homemade mayonnaise - 200 grams.
Cooking
- Chop the chicken into small cubes.
- Sauté chopped onions, carrots, mushrooms in a pan.
- Grate the eggs on a coarse grater (leave some of the protein for decoration).
- Finely chop the cucumbers.
- Grind greens.
- Prepare olives for decoration (chop).
- Lay the head of the tiger cub in layers, between which greens and mayonnaise (chicken, cucumbers, mushrooms with vegetables, eggs, boiled carrots).
- Decorate the salad with eyes from halves of olives, mustache, nose and strips - from crushed; cheeks and ears are made of protein; the tongue is from a piece of chicken.
Smoked chicken
Very tasty and spicy salad "Tiger" with smoked chicken and mushrooms. Cook it fast enough. According to many parents, this is the favorite dish of children.
Ingredients:
- smoked chicken (brisket or cut meat with smoked chicken legs) - 250 grams;
- boiled eggs - 2 pieces;
- champignon mushrooms (or any other) - 200 grams;
- fresh cucumber - 200 grams;
- carrots - 300 grams;
- green onions - 50 grams;
- pitted olives - 10 pieces;
- nuts (peanuts or walnuts);
- ground black pepper - 3 grams;
- salt - 5 grams;
- vegetable oil - 20 milliliters;
- homemade mayonnaise.
Cooking:
- Cook the mushrooms in a pan, add salt and ground pepper.
- Grind eggs on a grater (except for proteins for the eyes).
- Grind boiled carrots on a fine grater.
- Finely chop the cucumbers.
- Dice the chicken.
- Mix all ingredients except carrots and season with homemade mayonnaise.
- Put on the tray the head of the tiger cub, completely “drape” it with carrot.
- Put eyes out of proteins and cucumber, cheeks from chopped nuts, mustache from onions, black stripes and a nose - from olives, tongue from a piece of chicken.
In this recipe, boiled carrots can be replaced with Korean-style carrots. The taste will be slightly different, but in its own way pleasant and piquant.
With pineapple
Exotic cooking options will help diversify the menu of the festive table. The recipe for Tiger salad with chicken and pineapple involves the following ingredients:
- canned pineapple - 200 grams;
- smoked chicken - 300 grams;
- boiled eggs - 4 pieces (only proteins);
- pickled mushrooms - 150 grams;
- hard cheese - 200 grams;
- onions - 100 grams;
- mayonnaise or sour cream - 150 milliliters;
- boiled carrots - 300 grams;
- olives - 10 pieces.
Cooking
Cut into small cubes pineapple, chicken, egg whites (part left for the eyes and cheeks), cheese, onions. Mix the ingredients, add the mushrooms and mayonnaise.
Put the salad on a flat plate in the form of the head of a tiger cub. Cover with grated carrots.
Garnish with protein and finely chopped olives (strips, nose, pupils, eyelashes, mustache).
The tongue can be made from boiled chopped yolk.
Red fish salad
The cute Tiger cub is made from the following ingredients:
- boiled potatoes - 4 pieces;
- boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
- processed cheese - 100 grams;
- onions - 100 grams;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- slightly salted salmon - 200 grams;
- ground black pepper - 3 grams;
- black pitted olives - 10 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 150 grams.
Cooking:
- Marinate the onion rings in lemon juice and add to the ingredients.
- Grate eggs (leave part of the protein for decoration), potatoes, cheese.
- Mix mayonnaise with black pepper and add to the salad.
- Put the mixture in the form of the head of a tiger cub.
- Cover with fish plates.
- Form eyes and cheeks from protein, pupils from greens or cucumber, tongue from a piece of tomato.
- Cut olives finely and make a nose, eyelashes, stripes on the “face”.
"Tiger" with ham
A delicious appetizer for the festive table can be prepared according to this recipe. Salad "Tiger cub" contains the following ingredients:
- ham - 200 grams;
- prunes (for decorating the muzzle) - 20 grams;
- onion - 50 grams;
- boiled eggs - 2 pieces;
- boiled potatoes - 200 grams;
- boiled carrots - 200 grams;
- fresh cucumber - 100 grams;
- homemade mayonnaise - 100 milliliters.
Cooking
Starting from the very bottom, on a flat dish, lay out each component, pouring a thin layer of homemade mayonnaise.
The sequence is as follows:
- finely chopped potatoes;
- diced ham;
- chopped cucumbers;
- grated eggs (leave some of the protein for decoration);
- finely chopped onions;
- carrots, chopped with a fine grater.
Decorate the formed tiger cub with strips of prune (nose, eyelashes, mouth, pupils, mustache, tiger strips) and ground protein (eyes and cheeks).
Summary
You can dream up on the theme of the Tiger cub salad as much as you like! The main thing is that the dish should be tasty, healthy and to the delight of children and adults for whom it is being prepared.