As a rule, any holiday table is complete without salads. They are prepared for both birthday and New Year. We suggest that you diversify the festive table and prepare the Black Pearl salad with prunes. The original presentation as well as the taste of the dish will delight and surprise guests.
In the article you will read what benefits the dish brings to the body, how to cook it and useful tips from culinary experts.
The benefits of salad
Salad "Black Pearl" is not only very tasty, but also healthy. It includes prunes, which is famous for a large number of vitamins. These are calcium, iodine, zinc, manganese, sodium, iron, and many other useful trace elements and vitamins.
If prunes with nuts are added to a dish, a person’s working capacity increases all day, both mental and physical. It also enhances immunity, restores vision, etc.
Walnuts (like prunes) contain a large amount of healthy vitamins and substances. They help restore the body after the winter period and improve health. This is vision, the gastrointestinal tract and much more.
Since the Black Pearl salad contains healthy products, you should try to cook it for every holiday to improve and improve your body. It will diversify your menu and become a table decoration.
Ingredients
To prepare the Black Pearl salad with prunes, prepare the products:
- Boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
- Butter - 60 gr.
- Hard cheese (Dutch) - 250 gr.
- Prunes (preferably pitted) - about 100 gr.
- A small pack of crab sticks - 200-250 gr.
- Nuts - ½ tbsp. l
- Salt and mayonnaise to taste.
- Greens and corn for decoration.
When the products are ready, you can start cooking the original dish. Recipes can not be followed, because each housewife puts what is preferable in her family.
Black pearl salad: recipe
First you need to steam the prunes. Pour it with hot water or boiling water for 30 minutes. Then, on the side of the prune, you need to make small cuts and fill them with small pieces of nuts.
Now boil the eggs and cut them into very small cubes or grate on a coarse grater. Grate cheese and crab sticks on a coarse grater, and cold butter - on a medium. Now lay prepared foods in layers.
Rub eggs on the bottom of the salad bowl, and then a few crab sticks (about a quarter). Grease all this with a small amount of mayonnaise. Then rub 125 g. cheese and butter.
Now lay out the whole whole prune with nuts, and on the next layer - the remaining crab sticks. Lubricate everything with mayonnaise. The salad must be finished with cheese and butter. The dish is ready. Put it in the refrigerator, because it must be infused. It is best if the salad stays the night. If the dish needs to be served in a few hours, then put it in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
Now you need to decorate the salad in a beautiful and original way. For the presentation of the dish, greens, walnut kernels, corn, wild berries (strawberries, blueberries, cranberries) are excellent.
The result was an original, tasty and beautiful "Black Pearl" (salad). The photo will show you what presentation can be made.
Culinary Tips
Pitted prunes are more expensive, so you can take them with seeds. To easily remove them, scald the fruit with boiling water. When the prunes become soft, you can quickly and easily get the seeds.
If you are preparing a dish of homemade eggs, then you need to cook them for about 13 minutes. After cooking, put them in cold water - then clean faster. Butter should only be taken chilled. It is best to put it in the freezer in advance.
Many housewives add dried apricots and canned pineapple to the salad. These ingredients add spice and sophistication to the dish. Pineapple and dried apricots can also decorate the dish to emphasize the brightness and attractiveness of the dish. For a beautiful presentation, put a ring in the salad bowl into which you will rub the products. When you remove it, you get a smooth and round salad.
Some housewives replace crab sticks with shrimp. It turns out the salad is more original. To make the dish more tender and airy, you can rub it over the salad bowl by weight. White wine or champagne is perfect for him.
If you have chicken, you can add it to the dish. It is combined with pineapple and crab sticks. The taste is delicate, there is a sweetish taste. Experiment, fantasize, add your favorite ingredients, and you will surprise guests with a refined, original, beautiful dish.