Chinese salads are bright and tasty dishes that are part of the diet of the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom relatively recently.
There are thousands of recipes in total. A wide range of ingredients, including vegetables, fruits, glass noodles, cheese, meat, seafood, nuts, dressing and spices, allows you to make each salad diverse, as well as eat healthy food.
Features of Chinese gastronomy
The cuisine of the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom is unusually tasty, simple and satisfying. This people from ancient times to the present day has a special, centuries-old, traditional approach to the process of cooking and serving food.
They greatly respect and value food, because they always remember that there are a lot of inhabitants in the country, and there should be enough food for everyone. This was especially clearly reflected in the old days, when large families with low incomes had to live in conditions of particularly austerity.
It sounds paradoxical, but thanks to this, in Chinese cuisine there is such a feature as fine crushing of food, as well as the speed of cooking. Storage is carried out in special bamboo baskets, which allows to extend the shelf life of food.
Traditional Chinese food: rice, seafood, meat, vegetables, fruits, spices.
They eat with chopsticks, which they masterfully own. And it’s also convenient, because the food is chopped and well thermally processed.
A separate topic of gastronomy in this country are Chinese salads, the recipes of which are huge. And the components from which they are prepared are simple and affordable.
The preparatory stage in the preparation of salads
Traditional Chinese salads are served in small bowls, square flat plates, bowls.
Products are usually boiled, fried or steamed, so a pan, a frying pan are needed to prepare a dish. Also knives and cutting board (for meat, vegetables), garlic, additional containers for sauces.
To give the ingredients a beautiful elongated shape, special graters are used.
Chinese salads consist mainly of such components: cabbage (Beijing, cauliflower and other types), carrots, onions, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, squids, beef, pork, chicken, oysters, potatoes, vermicelli and so on.
But the main “trick" is dressing - it can be self-made sauces with spices or olive (sesame) oil. In the Russian version it is possible to cook this component from mayonnaise and spices.
Light beef salads
The variety of this dish is quite a large number. In this article, 5 types of Chinese beef salad will be considered.
- Ingredients: cucumber (200 g), carrots (100 g), sweet pepper (100 g), beef (100 g), peanuts (50 g). Cut cucumber, pepper, boiled carrots and beef into thin slices; add peanuts. Season with sweet and sour sauce.
- Ingredients: beef tongue (100 g), beef (100 g), cucumber (200 g), carrots (100 g). Cut cucumbers, boiled tongue, beef and carrots into strips and pour with mayonnaise and spices.
- Ingredients: beef (100 g), beef tongue (100 g), cucumber (200 g), tomatoes (100 g), bread croutons (100 g). Boil beef and tongue. Dice all the components, add croutons, dressing the salad with mayonnaise.
- Ingredients: funchose (100 g), beef (100 g), carrots (100 g), cucumber (200 g). Boil the noodles and beef, cut all the components into strips, season with soy sauce and spices.
- Ingredients: sweet pepper (200 g), beef tongue (100 g), beef (100 g). Boil the meat components. Cut everything into long bars and pour with mayonnaise.
Homemade salad
A delicious Chinese vegetable salad is quick and easy to prepare.
Required:
- funchose - 200 grams;
- cucumbers - 200 grams;
- white or Beijing cabbage - 100 grams;
- mushrooms - 150 grams.
Cooking
Boil the glass noodles. Fry the mushrooms lightly. Cut into thin strips cucumbers, cabbage, mix everything.
Refueling is prepared from the components:
- olive oil (15 milliliters),
- rice vinegar (5 milliliters),
- soy sauce (20 milliliters),
- salt (12 grams),
- garlic (10 grams).
Mix everything, grind garlic through the garlic, add to the dressing.
Pour over the salad with the prepared sauce.
Potato
For this Chinese salad you will need the following components:
- potato (200 g);
- ham (200 g);
- onions (100 g);
- peanuts (100 g).
Cooking
Cut the potatoes into long cubes, fry in oil. Add finely chopped ham and onion half rings, ground peanuts to the finished dish.
Pour the dish with mayonnaise or sauce.
Shrimp salad
Especially popular among residents of not only China but also other countries are Chinese seafood salads. One such will be considered in this article.
It is based on shrimp (200 g), sweet pepper (100 g), cucumbers (200 g), cashew nuts (100 g).
Shrimps are boiled, peppers and cucumbers are cut into strips, nuts are chopped. Mix all. Pour over the sauce.
Refueling option: soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, salt, Chinese seasonings, black pepper.
Meat salad with oranges
Of course, the trick of this Chinese salad recipe is a sweet and sour dressing. But the basis belongs to meat and oranges, which complement each other so organically that the result is a delicious dish.
Components:
- pork pulp - 200 g;
- oranges - 300 g;
- Beijing cabbage (white cabbage);
- olive oil - 40 milliliters;
- green onions - 100 g;
- ground black pepper.
For refueling:
- honey - 50 g;
- soy sauce - 50 milliliters;
- rice vinegar - 30 g;
- orange skins.
Cooking
For the sauce, squeeze zest (20 g) from the peel of oranges, add vegetable oil (20 milliliters), honey, vinegar and sauce. Connect the components.
Roll the meat in pepper and pour ¼ of the dressing - bake in the oven with oil. Cut the finished component into strips.
Free oranges from membranes, cut. Chop cabbage and onions. Add the meat and remaining dressing.
Summary
Chinese salads are not just so popular at present among the peoples of many countries, including Russia. They are extraordinary and tasty, and also beautiful in appearance and healthy.