Which of us does not like barbecue? To such a famous meat dish, it is customary to serve grilled vegetables or mushrooms. But you can also serve salads that will shade or add flavor to the dish.
The main thing is to choose the right ingredients that will be combined with the meat from which the kebab is prepared.
In the article, we will consider some of the most successful recipes for barbecue salads. It will be both cold and warm dishes.
"Summer" salad
This is a light salad for barbecue, which is often cooked in the summer.
Thanks to the combination of the following ingredients, the salad will add freshness to the meat:
- One head of Beijing cabbage.
- Two grapefruits. Take large fruits.
- A few pieces of radish.
- A bunch of green onions.
Ingredients for the preparation of dressing for the “Summer” salad for barbecue:
- A couple of tablespoons of olive oil. Use only cold pressed product.
- A pair of spoons of wine vinegar.
- Salt to taste. It is best to use marine.
- White or black ground pepper.
Cooking process
You will spend no more than fifteen minutes on preparing the “Summer” salad for barbecue.
We begin to prepare the dressing. In a separate container, mix olive oil, wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Stir until salt dissolves. Then send the refill to the refrigerator.
We start preparing vegetables and fruits. Rinse Beijing cabbage well under running water, while dividing into petals, inside of which dirt is most often clogged. Spread a paper towel and arrange each leaf of cabbage separately to dry.
While the cabbage dries, let's take a grapefruit. Collect water in a separate container and lower the grapefruit into it for half an hour so that all the toxins that it was processed come out of it. Drain and rinse the fruit again under running water. Peel and peel the pulp from all veins and filaments.
Rinse the radish, cut from the tail and cut into thin half rings.
Mix all the ingredients and pour the dressing from the refrigerator.
Rinse the onions, dry and chop finely. All components mix well. Everything, light and simple kebab salad is ready to serve. Enjoy your meal!
Strawberry Salad with Poppy Dressing
To prepare an original salad for barbecue, you will need a set of the following products:
- One forks of a lettuce salad.
- Two bunches of spinach.
- A pound of fresh strawberries.
- Half a glass of sour cream.
- A pair of tablespoons of wine vinegar.
- A spoon of granulated sugar.
- A pair of tablespoons of milk.
- As many spoons of poppy seeds.
Cooking process
Choose large and hard berries. We clean from the tails and rinse well under running water. Cut into neat slices.
Wash and dry lettuce leaves with a paper towel. Tear the leaves with our hands and send to the strawberries. Wash and dry spinach and onions. A bow is best chosen with white feathers. Finely chop both ingredients and send to the rest.
At the next stage, we are preparing a gas station. Mix sour cream with wine vinegar, milk, granulated sugar and wine vinegar. Mix all the ingredients so that the sugar crystals melt completely and add poppy seeds.
Dress the salad. Mix well. Fragrant and tasty barbecue salad ready. You can serve, surprise your loved ones and relatives with such an unusual combination of products.
Vegetable Salad with Asparagus
Tasty warm salad with barbecue, the preparation of which requires no more than half an hour, we bring to your attention further.
Ingredients:
- Eight fresh cherry tomatoes.
- Ten tablespoons of olive oil.
- A few pieces of eggplant. The amount depends on the size of the vegetable.
- One tablespoon of wine vinegar.
- A pair of garlic cloves.
- A bunch of fresh mint.
- Green string beans.
- A bunch of fresh basil.
- 1.5 tablespoons of powdered sugar.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking process
Wash tomatoes, dry and cut in half. If you use large tomatoes, then they should be cut into several parts.
Wash the eggplant, wipe it with a paper towel and cut it lengthwise.
Peel and squeeze the garlic using a garlic press or grate.
Rinse the mint leaves under running water and spread on a dry surface so that water is glazed from them.
Preheat the oven to 100 degrees. We spread tomatoes on a dry baking sheet so that the peel is from below. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar and leave in the oven for a couple of hours. When the peel begins to frown at the tomato, do not be alarmed, it should be so.
At the next stage, we heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the eggplants on both sides. After we transfer them to plates laid with paper napkins. Excess eggplant oil should remain on a napkin. And only after that transfer them to the salad bowl.
Cooking dressing by mixing olive oil, wine vinegar and garlic. Mix all the ingredients and water the eggplant.
Now add mint leaves, salt and pepper. In order for mint to give as much flavor as possible, tear it with your hands. Mix everything and set aside for a couple of hours so that the eggplant is well saturated with the aromas of pouring and mint.
Meanwhile, boil water in a pan and lower the beans. Cook vegetables for no more than three minutes. Then drain the water and leave the vegetables to cool.
By this time, tomatoes should already be baked, and they can be taken out. Add them to the tomatoes and mix.
A little cooled beans are freed from the veins and cut into several parts. We spread it to the salad. Mix all the ingredients.
Garnish with basil leaves before serving. You will get amazing kebab salad. Enjoy your meal!
Vitamin salad with leek
Another recipe for a light barbecue salad, the preparation of which will take a minimum of time. This is not only an easy, but also very healthy dish that goes well with fried meat.
Ingredients:
- One leek.
- One apple.
- One carrot.
- One celery root.
- A couple of tablespoons of sunflower oil.
- A few drops of lemon juice.
- Fresh herbs - dill, parsley, celery.
- Half a teaspoon of sea salt.
- Ground white or black pepper. You can use a mixture of them.
The process of making a Vitamin Salad
Getting started preparing the ingredients. We clean and cut the root and the green part, since they are stiff enough and not suitable for making salad. Leek root is only suitable for use after heat treatment.
We divide the white part of the vegetable into petals, rinse well under running water and dry it on a paper towel. Cut into thin rings.
After preparation, cut the apples into small squares. So that they do not darken while the rest of the ingredients are prepared, sprinkle the apples with lemon juice. Otherwise, they just darken and in the salad will look unappetizing.
We clean the celery root and carrots, wash and rub on a medium grater.
Mix already prepared ingredients, salt and pepper. Stir to dissolve the salt as much as possible. Only then add oil. If you mix the order, the salt will not dissolve and will creak on your teeth, which can ruin the impression of the dish.
Finely chop the dill and parsley and sprinkle the dish before serving.
"Winter" barbecue salad
It can be served both with lamb and with any other meat from which kebab is prepared.
This dish of Azerbaijani cuisine is prepared from a minimal set of products.
Ingredients:
- A pound of canned tomatoes.
- One head of onion.
- A pair of spoons of refined sunflower oil. Can be replaced with olive or sesame.
- Fresh herbs - cilantro, parsley, dill.
- A pinch of sea salt.
The process of preparing the "Winter" salad
At the first stage, we proceed to the processing of tomatoes. Remove the peel from them and cut into small cubes.
We clean the onion and cut into cubes.
We wash the greens under running water, dry and finely chop.
Mix the prepared ingredients and salt. At the last stage, we season with vegetable oil.
Warm salad on the grill
In Armenian cuisine, it is customary to serve barbecue vegetables on the grill. Consider a delicious barbecue salad recipe prepared on the grill.
Ingredients:
- Two small eggplant.
- A few fresh tomatoes.
- Two fleshy bell peppers.
- One bitter pepper.
- A few cloves of garlic.
- A couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
- Fresh herbs - cilantro, dill and parsley.
- Sea salt and a mixture of ground peppers.
Recipe for a delicious barbecue salad on the grill
While we kindle the barbecue, wash my vegetables, dry and string on skewers.
During baking, make sure that the vegetables do not burn, and turn the skewers on time. Take off when the skin on vegetables is slightly charred. After removing from heat, leave to cool.
Rinse greens, dry and finely chop.
We clean the garlic and squeeze it using garlic presses. Can be grated.
When the vegetables have cooled slightly, peel them and cut into small cubes.
Mix all ingredients, salt, pepper and add greens.
At the last stage, add vegetable oil. When serving, the salad should not have time to cool.
Georgian salad
Another recipe for a cold barbecue salad that will not leave you indifferent. Cook it at least once, and this dish will become a regular guest of your table.
Ingredients:
- Three fresh tomatoes.
- One hundred grams of Adyghe cheese or suluguni.
- A few tablespoons of olive oil.
- Fresh greens - cilantro, parsley.
- Sea salt can be replaced with iodized.
- A mixture of ground peppers.
- A few cloves of garlic.
- Balsamic vinegar for dressing.
- A pair of fresh cucumbers.
- One bell pepper.
- A few lettuce leaves.
- Seedless olives.
- A few leaves of basil.
Hot peppers. But if you do not like too spicy dishes, you can not add it.
The process of making "Georgian" salad
Wash, dry and chop tomatoes and bell peppers. Tomatoes - cubes, free the seeds from seeds and cut into strips.
Wash lettuce leaves, dry on a paper towel. Tear the leaves by hand. It is important. Thus, the product retains the highest amount of vitamins. Mix all the ingredients.
We pour the liquid from the olives, cut each in half and send it to the other components.
Dried herbs, including basil, are dried on a towel and finely chopped.
Pass the garlic through a press or rub on a fine grater and send to the salad with herbs.
If you decide to use capsicum, then it must be cleaned from seeds and finely chopped. If the pepper is very hot, use half the pod.
We begin to prepare the dressing. To do this, mix balsamic sauce and olive oil in a separate container. Add a mixture of peppers and salt. Shake until the ingredients are completely combined. Pour salad dressing.
Everything, the Georgian dish is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Features of the preparation of salads
When deciding which kebab salad is better to prepare, it is important to consider the compatibility of the products. This or that meat is combined with certain vegetables or fruits. When preparing salads for barbecue, consider this fact.
Fruit and vegetable salads are perfect for a pork dish. It can be cabbage, carrots, onions. From fruits - grapefruit or pineapple.
Baked vegetables are best suited for lamb skewers. It can be eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini.
Almost all vegetables are suitable for chicken skewers. Chicken goes well with green beans, fresh vegetables (cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes).
In rare cases, beef skewers are prepared. It is customary to serve dishes of beans, corn, carrots, green peas.
Cook any of these salads for barbecue. "Real jam!" - your guests will say.