Bonfire salad is a bright and satisfying dish. It is able to decorate the festive table. An unusual combination of ingredients gives the product a rich and slightly pungent taste. It should be remembered that this salad is very satisfying and not suitable for people on a diet. However, if necessary, the ingredients of the dish can be replaced with less high-calorie foods.
What is needed to make a salad
There are a variety of recipes for Bonfire salad. The classic version of this dish uses boiled beef. It will take 150 g of meat. For a salad, it is better to choose a lean piece so that the dish does not turn out to be excessively fat.
In addition, you must purchase vegetables. It will take 2-3 potatoes, 1 onion and 1 beet. You need to prepare a special grater in advance, which is used to make Korean salads. It will be required for chopping vegetables.
You also need to purchase 200 g of ready-made Korean carrots in the store. For the Bonfire salad dressing, you will need mayonnaise (to taste), and sunflower oil for roasting potatoes.
How to prepare the ingredients
First you need to boil the beef. The meat is cooked in slightly salted water, roots can be added to the broth to improve the taste. Spices should not be put in a decoction. Beef must be cooked until cooked until the meat is tender.
Then you need to boil the beets. It is better to cook a vegetable unpeeled, this will help to preserve nutrients. After cooking, beets should be cooled.
Next, you need to start cooking potatoes for the Bonfire salad. The vegetable must be peeled and ground on a special grater for Korean salads. You can also cut the potatoes into thin strips using a knife. Then the vegetable slices are fried in a large amount of vegetable oil, adding a little salt. It is necessary to ensure that the potatoes are not burnt. Otherwise, the salad will be spoiled. The finished ingredient must be fried to the state of french fries.
Fried potatoes need to be thrown into a colander so that the fat completely flows out. Then the “straws” need to be dried a little on a napkin. Vegetable oil should not get into the salad, otherwise the dish will turn out to be excessively fat.
Step-by-step preparation of salad
Cooking salad with boiled meat has its own characteristics. The following procedure must be observed:
- Take a large shallow dish. A regular salad bowl is not suitable for this product.
- Cut the onion into small cubes.
- Peel and grind boiled beets with a grater for Korean salads.
- Cut the boiled meat into strips.
- Prepare Korean carrots.
After that, all the components of the salad (except onions) should be laid out on a large dish in a circle. In the center you need to place chopped onions and pour it with mayonnaise. Bonfire salad with beef is ready!
It should be noted that salad ingredients do not need to be mixed. In the photo below you can see how the finished dish should look. In this form, it is served on the table, and then at the guests all components are mixed together with mayonnaise. This is the peculiarity of making the Bonfire salad.
You can diversify the taste of this dish. You can add green peas, grated radish or fresh cabbage chopped on a Korean grater to it. These ingredients combine well with other ingredients in the salad.
How to reduce the calorie content of a dish
It can be noted that this salad with boiled meat is a fairly high-calorie product. The combination of french fries, beef and mayonnaise makes the dish very satisfying. Therefore, with excess weight, eating such a salad is not recommended. This is too heavy food.
How to make this salad less high-calorie, but at the same time maintain its taste? This is possible if you replace its ingredients with dietary products.
Instead of boiled beef, you can use white chicken meat. It is more beneficial for the body and contains fewer calories. Potatoes can be replaced with fried celery root, and mayonnaise with sour cream. Such a salad will slightly differ in taste from the classic "Bonfire", but the dish will turn out to be no less tasty.
Acute Korean carrots are contraindicated in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, its use is better to refuse. This ingredient can be replaced with boiled carrots, crushed on a grater. You can also add fresh cucumber, cut into strips, in a diet salad. This will give the dish a delicate and pleasant taste.