Today we will learn how to make an unusual Cleopatra salad from available products. There are many cooking options for this dish. You will learn several ways by reading our article.
"Caesar" and "Cleopatra"
Everyone knows about Caesar salad today, but a dish called Cleopatra undeservedly remains in the shade, but in vain. In terms of taste, it is in no way inferior to the famous salads, to which we are accustomed, and it looks beautiful on the table, it is not for nothing that it bears the name of the most amazing woman in world history. There is no specific list of components for Cleopatra, everyone adds everything he wants. You can also experiment.
Cleopatra Salad with Chicken and Cucumbers
The following ingredients are needed to make a salad:
- Pickled beans - 1 jar.
- Chicken fillet - 500 grams.
- Black bread - 300 grams.
- Mayonnaise - 150 grams.
- Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Pickled cucumbers - 250 grams.
Before you start to cook Cleopatra salad, you need to cook the chicken meat until it is ready. Brown bread is cut into cubes and sautéed in butter until golden brown. After all the basic preparations are finished and the products are completely ready, we proceed to the most interesting, in fact, to the dish itself called "Cleopatra Salad", the photo of which you see. We take a beautiful salad bowl and begin to conjure, but how else to call the miracle of creating from ordinary products such beauty and goodness? So, we cut the cooled meat into strips, we also act with cucumbers. Beans are freed from the liquid and sent to the salad bowl, which already contains the previous ingredients. Add mayonnaise and mix. Rusks should be added to the salad just before serving, so that they do not get wet.
Light salad "Cleopatra"
This light salad is suitable for a women's company in which ladies watch their figure. Products for him are not so ordinary, unlike the previous recipe. Pamper yourself at least occasionally, but it is necessary. Call your girlfriends to visit and cook for them an unusual Cleopatra salad. See the recipe with the photo below.
Products that you will need:
- 150 grams of boiled and peeled shrimp.
- 12 pieces of olives.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- 3 rings of canned pineapple.
- 1 red onion.
- Half a lemon.
- A tablespoon of olive oil.
- Salt, pepper, mayonnaise.
We begin to prepare the Cleopatra salad. The recipe is simple, it is done quickly. The only thing that takes most of the time is pickling onions. We’ll start with her. Peel the onion, cut into rings and put on a plate where it will be pickled, salt, and pepper. Add the juice of half a lemon and oil. We leave it for half an hour, sometimes remembering to mix, so that the onions are uniformly marinated. Hard boiled eggs. After they are cooked, cool them by lowering them in cold water. Then clean and cut into cubes. We do the same with pineapples. We cut olives into thin circles (each should make about 4 wheels). Shrimp get rid of the shell, too large can be cut in half, small leave the whole. All the ingredients (do not touch the onion, it will be needed later) are mixed in a deep bowl, add salt, pepper, mayonnaise. Now you can proceed to the design. We put several fresh lettuce leaves on a beautiful flat dish, pickled red onions as a substrate on them . Do not forget to drain the liquid from under it. On this bed we lay out the salad with a slide so that the onion is visible. Top with prawns and olives. That's all, call your girlfriends, let them hurry up! Enjoy your meal!
Warm salad "Cleopatra". Recipe with photo
Tired of regular salads and want something new and unusual? Surprise your loved ones with a warm salad for dinner. It will take a little time to prepare it, and your family will be grateful for this Cleopatra salad with an unusual taste. In two servings you will need:
- 100 grams of chicken.
- Half an onion.
- 150 grams of ham.
- 1 head of iceberg lettuce.
- A few feathers of green onions.
- Cherry Tomatoes - 2 pieces.
- Black olives - 4-5 pieces.
- Cream 20% - half a glass.
Boil chicken until cooked and cut into strips, ham, onion and chicken and fry for several minutes. Add cream and simmer, do not forget to stir. We tear the iceberg salad with our hands and put it on the dish with a slide, put the cooked chicken on it and pour the sauce in which the meat was prepared. We decorate our Cleopatra salad with tomatoes, green onions and olives.
"Cleopatra" with salmon and vegetables
Products for cooking:
- pickled shrimp - 20 pieces,
- Chinese cabbage - 150 grams,
- green peas (fresh or frozen) - 40 grams,
- slightly salted salmon - 200 grams,
- tomato - 1 pc.,
- fresh cucumber - 1 pc.,
- sesame seeds - a tablespoon,
- liquid honey - a teaspoon,
- soy sauce - 2 tablespoons,
- lemon juice to taste.
Beijing cabbage is thoroughly washed under running water, then peeled and cut into medium-sized slices. Free salmon from the skin and bones, then cut into small pieces. Put shrimp in the salad. Cook a little green peas, cool and then just add to the salad. Fresh cucumber and tomatoes are cut into arbitrary slices. Mix everything very carefully. Now prepare the dressing: mix soy sauce with sparse honey, then add sesame seeds slightly fried in a dry pan. We leave our sauce for ten minutes, so that it is infused and saturated with the aroma of sesame. After this time, pour salad dressing and serve, without stirring, to the table. Enjoy your meal!
Conclusion
In this article, we examined a wide variety of Cleopatra salad recipes. I hope everyone will find their own version of cooking this dish and will pamper themselves and their loved ones not only on holidays, but also on weekdays.