Pomegranate, due to its sweet and sour taste, will be appropriate both in meat salads and in vegetable, fruit, and dessert. This fruit also looks very impressive. Therefore, its grains are often decorated with dishes. As an example, you can cite puff salads called “Bracelet” - “Pomegranate” and “Ruby”. These dishes themselves do not contain berries. Grains are just a decoration. Change the garnet for kiwi rings, and this will be the "Malachite Bracelet." But there are salads in which this grainy fruit is a full component of the dish. Fruit juice is sometimes used to make dressing. In this article you will find a selection of the best recipes for delicious salads with pomegranate - with a photo and a detailed description of the cooking process.
"Red Riding Hood"
If someone set out to make a rating of the most common dishes for the festive table in Russia, then the already mentioned “Bracelets” would fall into the top 5 after the olivier. And since the decoration with pomegranate grains gives any dish a spectacular elegant look, the five best include salads such as Little Red Riding Hood and Monomakh Hat. We will return to the latter. Now let's look at a salad with pomegranate, whose name refers us to the heroine of Charles Perrault's fairy tale. In this dish, grains not only create the appearance of a red cap, but are also included in one of its layers. Boil in the “uniforms” two tubers of potatoes, carrots and beets. We clean it. We take a transparent dish so that guests can see what the layers consist of. We begin to lay the salad. The lowest layer we have will be one potato tuber. We rub it with large chips directly to the bottom of the salad bowl. From above, we grind 75 grams of cooked sausage in the same way. We chop the onion as small as possible. Sprinkle with sausage. Soak our salad cake with mayonnaise. We clean a large pomegranate. Half of its grains will form the next layer. Then grind carrots and beets on a coarse grater. Grease the salad again, but this time with sour cream. Now repeat the layers: potatoes, 75 g of sausage, onion. Mix mayonnaise with sour cream. Well grease the top of the product. We put the remaining pomegranate seeds in a slide in the form of a “cap”.
"Monomakh hat"
This salad will be an excellent dish for a children's holiday. It is known that kids are cool about vegetable snacks. But in front of such a colorful "cake" not a single capricious man can resist. Since this salad with pomegranate is also layered, first we rub all the ingredients for it in separate bowls. So, we stock up on containers and capacities. Three boiled egg whites are rubbed coarsely, three yolks - finely. Peel a large apple, cut out a seed box. Three large, pour the pulp with lemon juice so as not to darken. Three boiled potatoes are cut into large chips, as well as one beet. And 200 grams of cheese is three finely. In a separate bowl we make the sauce by mixing 400 g of mayonnaise with two garlic cloves, spices and salt, passed through the press. One hundred grams of steamed pitted prunes are cut into strips. Now we put the salad, smearing each layer with the sauce. You can divide the ingredients into two parts and repeat the alternation again. However, each top layer should be made slightly smaller in radius than the previous one. So we get a round slide, not a cylinder. How do the layers alternate? Potatoes, beets, roasted nuts (100 g), boiled and diced chicken (400 g), chopped fresh herbs, prunes, some more nuts and cheese, yolks. The slide needs to be placed on a large dish, so that there is still room for the "edge of the cap." We form it from grated cheese, sprinkled with protein and walnuts. We decorate the white mayonnaise surface of the “hat” with symmetrical patterns of pomegranate seeds or green peas. Sometimes a small crown cut from purple or white onions is placed in the center.
"Garnet bracelet"
Bright ruby grains are often used to decorate a variety of dishes. As the photo below demonstrates, the Pomegranate Bracelet salad also belongs to those appetizers where the fruit serves solely as a decoration. A dish with this name has many hypostases, which is not surprising. Indeed, inside the ruby ring almost any puff salad can be found: with salmon, tuna, cod liver, with chicken, beef, prunes, etc. The “Pomegranate bracelet” is made by its original form of laying with a circle and generous sprinkling of the whole surface of the dish with crimson grains. Therefore, here we will dwell in detail on the design of the salad. We take a large and necessarily flat dish. In its center we put an inverted glass. Lay out lettuce in a circle around the perimeter of this container. We coat the top of the product with mayonnaise. On a white field, carefully lay out the pomegranate seeds - the thicker the better. Leave for impregnation. Before serving, take out the glass.
Mediterranean Salad with Peking Cabbage and Pomegranate
This dish exists in two versions. One of them is vegetarian, and the second is made with chicken and eggs. They differ only in the addition of the last two ingredients. Head of my Beijing cabbage and shred across thin strips. Just finely chopped parsley. We spread cabbage in a salad bowl, sprinkle it with salt, loosen carefully with our hands. After three minutes, add pomegranate seeds, parsley and spices. Season with olive oil and lemon juice.
If you are going to make a salad with pomegranates and chicken, then the breast should first be boiled. The meat must be cut into cubes, and then also fry until golden. To decorate the dish, it is best to use quail eggs. Cook them, peel and cut them into quarters. Decorate the upper part of the product with eggs or add them to the dish.
"Flaming Heart" - an amazing salad with pomegranate: a recipe with a photo
A very beautiful dish, which will be appropriate on the table on Valentine's Day or on March 8th. It will also serve as a hint about your feelings during a dinner for two. This salad is tasty and quite satisfying. So they can and be limited if you follow the figure. For cooking, you will need a stencil in the form of a heart. You can use metal for baking gingerbread, or make it yourself out of cardboard. Lay the salad in layers inside the stencil. The lower layer is boiled potatoes in their uniforms. We clean two tubers, three large. Salt, coat with mayonnaise. The second layer is salted salmon or other red fish, cut into thin strips. Over the third layer will have to work hard. Clean or boiled large beets, rub coarsely. One hundred grams of prunes are steamed with boiling water, we take out the seeds, cut the flesh into pieces. A handful of walnut kernels are calcined in a dry pan, crushed with a rolling pin is not very finely. Mix and season with mayonnaise. We lay the layer inside the stencil. Decorate the "Heart" with pomegranate seeds. Meat lovers can recommend veal recipe. First comes a layer of chopped meat, then onions with mayonnaise. The third layer is chopped eggs. On top is the same mixture of prunes, nuts and beets. Grease each layer with mayonnaise. The topmost layer is grated cheese garnished with pomegranate seeds. Remember to remove the stencil before serving.
“Mistress”: original salad with pomegranate
The recipe and photos of the finished dish will surely take their rightful place in your cookbook. This dish is similar to the previous one in that ruby grains serve only as an ornament. Salad can also be placed in the stencil "heart", but this is not necessary. There are two options for “Mistresses” - summer and winter. The first salad is decorated with halves of grapes. Well, in winter we use a seasonal fruit - pomegranate. “Mistress” is a puff salad. Therefore, we begin its preparation by putting the ingredients in separate bowls. Boil the beets in a peel, cool, peel, three large. Pour raisins (60-80 grams) with hot water, filter in a quarter hour, let dry on a napkin. We clean the carrots and three raw. Walnut kernels (handful) are calcined in a dry frying pan, crushed. We clean two pomegranates from peel and films. Finely chop three cloves of garlic, knead with mayonnaise. Hard cheese (200 grams) is rubbed coarsely. We start laying our salad with pomegranates. The recipe requires the beets to be placed as the bottom layer, and nuts on it. We cover them with mayonnaise mesh. Then we put a layer of cheese. Grease with garlic mayonnaise again. Next, we put layers of carrots and raisins. Generously coat the salad with the remaining mayonnaise. Garnish with pomegranate seeds. We put the dish in the refrigerator for an hour for soaking.
With green radish and seeds
This vitamin-rich and delicious pomegranate salad is easy to prepare. The only difficulty that we will have to overcome is to tinker with in order to clean the seeds. For a salad, you need four tablespoons of sunflower seeds and two - pumpkins. The rest is done in one go. Three large two green radishes and carrots. Pour juice from one lemon. Leave for a quarter of an hour. During this time, lemon juice completely neutralizes the radish bitterness. Large pomegranate clean from peel and white films. Add grains to the salad along with the seeds. Knead, salt. Season with olive oil. We serve right away.
Salad "Baku"
Pomegranate is especially often used in Azerbaijani cuisine. This fruit is added to both snacks and hot dishes. So, how to make “Baku salad” with pomegranates?
The recipe requires that you first completely boil a kilogram of veal. When the meat has cooled, cut it into small pieces. We clean three large pomegranates and choose grains. We cut a bunch of cilantro or other spicy greens. Detail five cloves of garlic. Chop finely three onions. Mix all the ingredients. Season to taste with black and hot red peppers and salt. Add mayonnaise and mix everything again. Sometimes eggs (4 pieces) are added to this salad and seasoned with olive oil.
"Arrows of Cupid"
This recipe for a delicious salad with pomegranate is useful for those who plan to set a table for two and have dinner by candlelight. The list of ingredients includes shrimp - a powerful aphrodisiac, among other things. A sweet and sour pomegranate seeds with juicy pineapple will give the dish a subtle oriental nuance. First, prepare the products. Boil and peel 200 grams of large shrimp and lightly fry them in olive oil. We choose carefully so as not to let juice, pomegranate seeds. We cut the head of Beijing cabbage into strips, and one hundred grams of crab sticks into small cubes. Squeezed canned pineapple from syrup. Take two hundred grams of rings, cut them into a cube. Mix all the ingredients, salt, season with three tablespoons of mayonnaise or olive oil. You can serve a snack in a common salad bowl. But it will be much more original and more beautiful to lay the dish in portions of the cream in layers. At the bottom of the glass we place a leaf of Beijing cabbage, then pomegranate, pineapple, crab sticks. We spread the mayonnaise bud from the culinary syringe on top, decorate with shrimps.
Georgian salad with walnuts
Boil 350 grams of chicken. You can take the finished chicken (grilled or smoked) and simply remove the right amount of meat from the bone. We make a gas station. To do this, mix the yogurt in a bowl (but natural yogurt is also suitable) with salt, ground zira and finely chopped garlic. Choose grains from pomegranate. We tear a bunch of lettuce leaves with our hands. A handful of walnut kernels are calcined in the oven or in a dry frying pan. Large crush. Mix all the ingredients of the salad in a bowl. Add pomegranate seeds and nuts immediately. Dress with sauce. Mix. Garnish with peeled mandarin slices.
Fruit salad
The sweet taste of pomegranate seeds allows you to use them for the preparation of dessert dishes. Here is an example of such a salad. Pomegranate with pineapple and walnuts is a familiar combination. Supplement this trio with a handful of raisins. And season our dessert salad with cream whipped with sugar. For taste, you can add vanillin or some kind of syrup to them. Decorate our dessert with peeled tangerine slices or cocktail cherries.