With the advent of spring, not only the time for miniskirts and good mood begins, but also the variety of dishes on the table. The first servings of fresh vegetables finally appear in familiar dishes, saturating the body with vitamins, minerals and simply pleasing with pleasant cool aromas.
Queen of salads
This title, of course, is assigned to such a vegetable as radish. It is this vegetable that doctors recommend first of all, when after the winter there is a period of vitamin deficiency, decreased attention and mood. Radish perfectly relieves fatigue and eliminates apathy. It also works as a painkiller and anti-inflammatory agent, helps fight radiculitis, heart attacks, strokes, headaches, high blood pressure.
Perfectly satisfy your hunger, as well as saturate the body with useful substances can a salad of radishes with cucumber and egg. You can fill such a salad with anything. If you are preparing a dietary dish, then this, of course, will be low-calorie sauce or low-fat sour cream, and if you do not follow the figure, you can easily use the usual mayonnaise.
There are many cooking options. We chose some simple and clear recipes. Today we will tell you how to cook a radish salad with cucumber and egg so that it is fast in time and just in terms of cooking. We will give some tips on the proper serving of radishes in salad dishes.
Traditional recipe
Among the greens, radish is literally combined with everything. As for other products, a chicken or quail egg will be the best neighbor on the radish plate. We can say that such a combination: radish, egg, cucumber - is a classic of the culinary genre. Such a salad will appeal to everyone: those who are on a diet, and little fidgets who are always naughty at the table, and brutal men who are looking for a successful and satisfying addition to their favorite meat dish.
Essential Ingredients
- Quail eggs - three pieces.
- Fresh radish - 250 grams.
- A few leaves of lettuce.
- Long-fruited cucumber - 1 pc.
- Chives - one bunch.
- Cream and sour cream - a mixture of 50 gr. each product.
- Salt and spices to taste.
How to cook
Even a small novice hostess can make a salad of radishes with cucumber and egg, and for an experienced adult housewife this will be a matter of ten minutes.
Cook the chicken egg, cool under running water and peel it. For a traditional recipe, you need to cut it into small cubes, although there may be many cutting options, it will all depend on your culinary imagination. The radish is washed and also cut into small circles. Cucumber - straws or a semicircle. Chop green onions and mix with other products.
We will fill the radish salad with cucumber and egg with a mixture of cream and sour cream. You can first salt the vegetables, and then pour the sauce. In another embodiment, mix the sauce with salt and pepper, and then pour the salad with this emulsion.
On a plate we spread a small salad leaf. It is advisable if it is pre-washed and thoroughly dried. In a fresh spring salad, there is no need for excess moisture. The sauce will do its wet job anyway. On top of the lettuce leaf lay out the main ingredients mixed with sour cream and cream. Add a sprig of parsley on top - salad decorations never harm.
Dietary salad: cucumber, radish, egg, onion, sour cream, the calorie content of which is only 42-47 Kcal per hundred grams, will be an excellent snack or side dish for meat dishes. On a diet, such a dish can be eaten at least every day without special restrictions.
Tomato for a change
If you think that the spring salad: radish, cucumber, egg, greens - is not saturated enough with bright colors, then we recommend adding a tomato and bright yellow corn to it. The result will be amazingly delicious, rich in color and beautiful when served.
- 8-9 radishes.
- 5-7 small cherry tomatoes.
- 4-5 small quail eggs.
- Chinese cabbage.
- Half a can of canned sweet corn.
- Fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.
For dressing sauce
- Fresh greens of parsley and dill.
- A pair of table. tablespoons of vinegar.
- A pinch of sugar, salt and ground black pepper.
- A few nuts (cashews or walnuts).
- 5-6 tablespoons of table water.
- A small bunch of fresh basil.
- Two tablespoons of linseed oil.
How to make a radish salad with cucumber and egg, cherry tomatoes and corn grains
First you need to prepare and chop vegetables. All of them are washed under running water and dried thoroughly. We cut the radish into circles, the cucumber - into strips, the cherry tomatoes - divide into two halves. Boil the egg, as usual, until cooked and cool.
While quail eggs are cooked, we will make a marinade for tomatoes and radishes. Mix salt, vinegar, sugar and water in a separate bowl. We put in this mixture pieces of radish and halves of cherry tomatoes. Leave the vegetables to marinate for fifteen minutes. When the pickling process is completed, we take out the vegetables and put them on paper towels. Excess fluid is not needed.
The salad recipe with radish, cucumber and egg, with cherry tomatoes and corn implies a multilayer structure. First of all, spread the pickled tomatoes and radishes at the very bottom of the plate. Pour finely chopped leaves of Beijing cabbage on top. The next layer will go basil greens and ground in a mortar almost to the state of flour nuts. A bit of salt. And again in layers: tomatoes, cucumber straws, corn.
The final stage is the halves of quail eggs. It will be a decoration of the salad and, perhaps, the most satisfying ingredients of the dish. Sprinkle the top with linseed oil, and the salad is ready.
Omelet instead of boiled eggs
It seems impossible to diversify a radish salad with cucumber and egg anymore. A recipe with a photo of the next dish proves the opposite. Having shown a little imagination and culinary inventiveness, the housewives managed to make a hearty and nutritious salad called Luxurious from an ordinary spring salad. How to cook it?
- Two chicken eggs.
- 3 table. tablespoons of milk.
- Half a bunch of basil.
- Salt.
- Pepper.
- 1 table. tablespoons of spicy mustard.
- The same amount of olive oil.
- A teaspoon of chicken stock.
- A clove of garlic.
- 250 gr radish.
- 150 gr. boiled chicken breast.
Cooking steps
Despite the variety and variety of ingredients, the salad is prepared in a matter of minutes. This is due to the fact that many products can be cooked simultaneously, which significantly reduces the overall time.
The first stage is the preparation of a magnificent omelet. In a large capacity, beat well until airiness two chicken eggs with salt, milk and ground pepper. Pour the mixture into a frying pan, cover and cook a traditional omelet. Typically, the average cooking time for an omelet is 10-12 minutes.
While the dish is cooking, we are preparing the sauce. Grind with a knife or using a press a clove of garlic. Add chicken stock and a little vinegar to it. We taste it. If the sauce turns out to be too spicy, and you would not want to allow such a salad, then simply dilute it with broth.
Finely chop the basil. Cut the chicken fillet into long, but very thin strips - cubes. We cut the radish at will - circles, stripes, a semicircle, etc.
At the bottom of the plate for a beautiful serving, put a sheet of salad. Top with chicken, vegetables and sprinkle them with sauce. The last ingredient is an omelet cut into beautiful slices. Again a little sauce. Luxurious Salad is ready for tasting.
The second option is filing. On a plate with one pancake, spread the omelet. Lay all other ingredients on top of the layers or in a small slide. Pour abundantly with dressing and decorate with a fresh leaf of basil. Try to spread the salad so that the omelet is slightly "peeking out" from under the main salad mass.
Thanks to the chicken, the salad is quite nutritious and nutritious. And due to the presence of a large number of vegetables, it becomes an amazing find for losing weight. The calorie content of such a salad will be about 80-82 calories per hundred grams. Everything will depend on the amount of chicken and the type of sauce that you prefer to season with salad.