Beijing cabbage is a good dietary product. It has an excellent taste and goes well with all vegetables. Dietary salads from Beijing cabbage are good not only for those who adhere to proper nutrition. In our article we will try to give the most interesting recipes.
A little about Beijing cabbage ...
Until the late seventies, Chinese salad, now called Beijing cabbage, was a scarce product on the American continent and in Europe. They brought it then mainly from China, in which the culture has been grown since the sixth century. And only very recently cabbage has become very common. Now it can be purchased at any supermarket. This is due to the development of new adapted varieties that can be grown in a European climate.
Why did Chinese cabbage become so popular all over the world? The fact is that the content of vitamin C in it is several times higher than in lettuce. Cabbage is also rich in B vitamins and carotene. It contains potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium. But the calorie content of the product is very low - 16 kcal per 10 grams. For this reason, it is recommended to supporters of proper nutrition. Peking cabbage is present in many diets.
What dishes are prepared from it?
Dietary salads from Beijing cabbage - this is not all the dishes that can be prepared from this product. For example, delicious cabbage rolls can be made from it. And in Asia, Beijing love to sour. In general, we can say that Beijing cabbage occupies a middle position between ordinary white cabbage and salads. For many people, ordinary cabbage varieties are heavy. In this case, the Beijing comes to the rescue. The light product goes well with all vegetables, cheeses, seafood and poultry.
Dietary salads from Beijing cabbage can be seasoned with a variety of sauces. Or you can use traditional Chinese dressing, which is prepared from soy sauce with the addition of a small amount of apple cider vinegar. Serving salads is better in a transparent or white dish, then the dish looks more attractive.
Coleslaw with apple
A delicious diet of Beijing cabbage can be prepared with the addition of an apple. In this dish, fruits and vegetables combine well with each other.
Ingredients:
- Head of cabbage.
- A can of corn.
- Salt.
- Cucumber.
- Three apples.
- Hard cheese (any) - 220 g.
For refueling:
- Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l
- French mustard - 1 tsp.
- Light mayonnaise - five tbsp. l
- Vinegar - 1 tbsp. l
Pure Chinese cabbage leaves are cut into strips. Add apples, cucumbers and tinned corn to the dish. Grind the cheese and put it in the salad too. Mix all the ingredients and add the sauce. We prepare dressing from mayonnaise, oil, mustard and vinegar. We put the finished dish in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, and then serve it on the table.
Crab Stick Salad
Salad of Beijing cabbage and crab sticks is a tasty and quick dish for a family dinner.
Ingredients:
- Crab sticks - 120 g.
- Boiled eggs - two pcs.
- Mayonnaise.
- Chinese cabbage.
- Salt.
Finely chop the Beijing cabbage and add chopped eggs and crab sticks. Mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise. As a decoration, you can use greens. Salad can be seasoned with oil, but with mayonnaise it is more tender. You can add canned corn to the dish. The result is also a very tasty salad.
Cucumber Salad with Corn
A salad of Beijing cabbage and cucumbers with the addition of corn is not only tasty, but juicy and healthy. And for its preparation you will need a minimal set of products.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage.
- Two boiled eggs.
- As many cucumbers.
- Green onion.
- Canned corn.
- Salt.
- Olive oil - two tbsp. l
- Pepper.
We clean the eggs and cut them into cubes, cucumbers in half rings. Finely chop the Beijing. Stir in all the ingredients and add the green onion. Season the salad with olive oil and season with pepper. A light vitamin dish can be served.
Salad with chicken and pineapple
Very tasty is a salad of Beijing cabbage with chicken and pineapple. Such a dish can be put on the festive table. Through the use of meat, the salad is nutritious.
Ingredients:
- Two chicken fillets.
- Fresh pineapple (can be replaced with canned).
- Olive oil.
- Peking cabbage - 120 g.
- Lettuce - 90 g.
- Mayonnaise - 90 g.
- Mustard (it is better to use Dijon) - 1 table. l
- Fresh dill.
- Sour cream - 40 g.
- Red pepper.
- Salt.
Recipes of salads with Peking cabbage (photo is given in the article) are easy to prepare. This dish was no exception.
Salt and fry the chicken fillet on all sides in olive oil. After cooling, the meat must be cut into slices.
If you will use fresh pineapple, then it must be peeled and cut into slices.
For salad dressing you can make a very delicious sauce. Mix sour cream, mayonnaise and mustard. Add finely chopped dill to the mass. Mix the ingredients well. Refueling is ready.
Shred the lettuce and Beijing cabbage. Top them with sauce. We spread the green mass on the dish, and on top we decorate it with slices of meat and pineapple. A few drops of balsamic vinegar can be applied to the edge of the plate.
For cooking, you can use canned pineapples, if not fresh. A delicious Beijing cabbage salad will not get any worse.
Quick salad
A very simple and delicious Beijing cabbage salad can be prepared in just five minutes.
Ingredients:
- Head of Beijing.
- Canned Pineapple.
To prepare the dish, cabbage must be chopped into thin strips. We open a can of pineapples and drain the syrup. Cut the fruit into slices and add it to the Beijing cabbage. Salad can be seasoned with pineapple syrup.
This dish complements the meat cooked on the grill.
Sausage Salad
We bring to your attention another recipe for a delicious salad of Beijing cabbage. The simplicity of its preparation does not affect the taste.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage.
- Smoked sausage - 220 g.
- Garlic.
- Bank of peas.
- Mayonnaise.
- Greens.
Peking cabbage is cut into thin strips. Dried or smoked sausage cut into strips. Grind greens. We mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, there we send canned peas. A few cloves of garlic are passed through a press and added to the salad. The finished dish can be flavored with mayonnaise or olive oil.
Smoked chicken salad
Smoked chicken is delicious on its own. And its combination with cabbage gives an amazing result. This recipe for a simple Beijing cabbage salad can be used for a festive table.
Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken - 210 g.
- Chinese cabbage.
- ½ lemon.
- Olive oil.
- Two tomatoes.
- Salt.
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard.
- Rusks - 50 g.
For cooking, we need a piece of smoked chicken. It can be a thigh, filet or other parts. Of course, the breast is most convenient, since you do not have to separate the meat from the bones, you just have to cut it into slices. Shred the cabbage finely, and cut the tomatoes into halves (you can use cherry tomatoes).
All prepared ingredients are mixed and seasoned with sauce. Dressing is prepared from olive oil, mustard and lemon juice. Beat the mass with a whisk until smooth. If you do not want to use the sauce, you can take mayonnaise.
Refill must be added before serving. Salad can be decorated with crackers.
Coleslaw and Pepper Salad
Not all housewives prepare Beijing cabbage salads. The recipes with photos in our article will help to enrich the daily diet with healthy dishes. Especially pleasing is the fact that Beijing cabbage is widely available for sale in winter. Many simply do not know how useful the vegetable is, therefore they have not yet included it in their diet. Meanwhile, in China - in the homeland of Beijing cabbage, vitamin salads based on it are very popular.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage.
- Bell pepper - 2-3 pcs.
- As many apples.
- Salt.
- Spice.
- Olive oil.
- Apple vinegar.
Cooking takes no more than five minutes. We chop the cabbage, and cut the apples and sweet peppers into strips.
For salad dressing, you can use a mixture of oil and apple cider vinegar. Add the sauce to the dish and serve it on the table. Salt and spices are added to taste.
Salmon Salad
A delicious salad of Beijing cabbage (photo is given in the article) can be prepared using fish or seafood.
Ingredients:
- Salmon - two steaks.
- Tomatoes - two pcs.
- Cabbage.
- Olive oil.
- Pitted olives - 110 g.
- White onion.
- Oregano.
- Pepper.
- Provencal herbs.
Fry salmon steaks (chilled) in vegetable oil. Fish must be brought to readiness, but not overdried. After each piece we remove the bones and divide it into small parts.
For salad, use seedless olives. They are easier to cut into pieces. We shred the cabbage, and cut the tomatoes into slices. Mix fish and vegetables in a salad bowl.
As a dressing, you can use a mixture of olive oil and the juice of half a lemon. You can add oregano and Provence herbs to the sauce. If you want a more spicy taste of salad, you can add a little soy sauce.
Squid salad
A delicious salad can be prepared with the addition of squid.
Ingredients:
- Chinese cabbage.
- Two cucumbers.
- As many tomatoes.
- Squid canned. - 230 g
- Dill.
- Olive oil - 3 tbsp. l
- Lemon juice.
Cut the tomatoes into slices, cucumbers in half rings, chop the cabbage finely. Squids cut into rings. In a salad bowl, mix all the ingredients.
Mix olive oil with juice ½ part lemon. Water the salad with the resulting dressing, and then serve it on the table.
Avocado Salad
Ingredients:
- One avocado and one apple.
- Olive oil.
- White onion.
- Cabbage.
- Lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l
Finely chop the cabbage. We clean the avocado and cut into slices. Sprinkle the flesh with lemon juice on top so that it does not darken. Grind the onion in half rings. Cut the peeled apple into cubes. We mix all the ingredients in a bowl and season with lemon juice and olive oil.
Salad can be served on a dish decorated with lettuce leaves.
Crab salad
Seafood is very beneficial for our body. Therefore, they must be present in our diet. As a festive option, you can offer to cook a salad of crab and Beijing cabbage.
Ingredients:
- Crab meat - 310 g.
- Two tomatoes.
- Carrot.
- Turnip.
- Cucumber.
- Chinese cabbage.
- Beans - 110 g.
- Vinegar.
- Fat-free yogurt - 110 g.
- Vegetable oil.
- Beans - 110 g.
We start cooking with crabs. They must be properly cut. Separate claws from the body. We extract the meat from all parts of the crab and boil it with the addition of bay leaf, pepper, cloves, salt and a quarter of lemon.
Rinse the tomatoes thoroughly and cut into slices. Cut the cucumber into slices. Peels turnips and carrots and grate.
We wash the lettuce leaves and dry them with napkins, after which we tear them by hand. Wash green beans and cut into pieces. Finely chop the greens and cabbage.
In a separate bowl, mix low-fat yogurt, sunflower oil and a little vinegar.
We mix all ingredients (except crab meat) in a container and season with sauce. Put the salad on a plate, and put crab meat in the center of the dish. For decoration, you can use greens.
Salad with meat, cabbage and nuts
A delicious salad of Beijing cabbage (photos of some dishes are given in the article) with meat and walnuts is not only good in taste, but also nutritious.
Ingredients:
- Cucumber.
- Chicken or duck fillet.
- Walnuts - 80 g.
- Chinese cabbage.
- Celery - 80 g
- An Apple.
- Olive oil.
- Dill.
- Lettuce leaves.
- Fat-free yogurt - 90 g.
Wash the cucumber well and rub on a fine grater. We mix the pulp with yogurt, adding chopped herbs. This sauce is called tzatziki.
We sort the Beijing cabbage into separate leaves, after which we cut it into thin strips. Cut the duck or chicken fillet into pieces and fry with the addition of olive oil and spices.
My celery and cut into rings. Peel the apple and chop it into small slices. We wash the lettuce leaves and pluck it by hand. The peeled nuts are dried a little in a dry frying pan. Put lettuce and cabbage on the bottom of the dish. We spread celery, cucumber, apple and meat on top. Water the dish with tzatziki sauce and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
The most dietary salad
An original recipe allows you to cook an incredibly healthy and dietary salad. For cooking, it is better to use fresh peas, if possible. Of course, canned products are more convenient to use, especially in the autumn-winter period. But fresh peas contain much more vitamins. Well, everyone knows about the value of broccoli. Therefore, as a result, we get a wonderful diet salad.
Ingredients:
- Green peas (chilli) - 150 g.
- Olive oil.
- Fresh ginger.
- Cauliflower head (medium size).
- Beijing cabbage - 1/2 head of cabbage.
- Soy sauce - 30 ml.
- A pinch of sesame seeds.
- Greens.
- One chicken fillet.
- Cherry Tomatoes - 9 amount
We carefully wash the chicken fillet and cut it into pieces. Meat must be marinated for an hour. To do this, you can use a mixture of soy sauce, olive oil and sesame seeds. Add salt and sugar to the marinade to taste. We send grated ginger there.
While the meat is pickled, you can boil the peas in salted water. We sort the Beijing cabbage into leaflets and rinse, then cut into strips.
We sort the cauliflower into inflorescences, then fry them in olive oil, adding spices. Cherry tomatoes are mine and cut into four parts. Finely chop the greens. Mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl. The dish can be seasoned with olive oil. From this, it will become even more useful. Top salad can be decorated with pumpkin seeds.
Mushroom salad
Peking cabbage is perfectly combined not only with fruits and vegetables, but also with mushrooms.
Ingredients:
- Chinese cabbage.
- Bow.
- Mushrooms - 210 g.
- Two tomatoes.
For marinade:
- Vegetable oil.
- Tsp Sahara.
- Vinegar - two tbsp. l
- Salt.
Wash the mushrooms thoroughly and cut into thin slices. From a mixture of vegetable oil, vinegar, salt and sugar, prepare a marinade. We put mushrooms in it. We chop the cabbage very thinly, chop the tomatoes and onions. At the bottom of the plate, spread the salad in layers of prepared vegetables. On top of the dish you can decorate with mushrooms. Marinade can be used as dressing for dishes.
Apple and Raisin Salad
Ingredients:
- Green apple.
- Peking cabbage - 450 g.
- 1 tbsp. l raisins.
- Sugar - ½ tbsp. l
- 2 tbsp. l lemon juice.
- Low Fat Yogurt - 40 ml.
We wash the Beijing cabbage and cut into strips. Add salt and sugar and wring out by hand. We chop the apple in the form of straws and mix it with lemon juice so that the flesh does not darken.
We mix and mix all the ingredients with low-fat yogurt. Sprinkle raisins on top of the salad.
Salad with oranges
Ingredients:
- Beijing cabbage - 330 g
- Pulp of Orange - 110 g.
- A can of corn.
- Feathers of onions (green).
- Soy sauce - 1 tsp.
- Rast. oil - 1 table. l
Preparation of the original salad takes very little time. Shred the cabbage, and peel the orange and cut the pulp into cubes. We mix all the ingredients and add chopped onions and canned corn. You can use a mixture of oil and soy sauce to fill the dish. You can add your favorite spices to the dish.
Instead of an afterword
As you can see, there are an incredible number of options for cooking salads from Beijing cabbage. Recipes with photos will help enrich the usual diet of every housewife.
Beijing cabbage is an excellent dietary product that can replace leaf lettuce and ordinary cabbage. Her tender leaves are an excellent basis for many dishes. The advantage of Beijing is that it harmonizes well with fish, meat, vegetables and fruits. It is impossible to recover from cabbage. So it can be widely used even by those who are very careful in choosing products. Of course, for cooking diet foods, you should use dressings based on olive oil or natural yogurt.