Red fish, caviar and seafood are invariable attributes of the festive table. A salad "Pearl" combines all of these main ingredients. There are a lot of recipes, and do not be afraid to experiment. Why not cook a Pearl salad! With salmon (light-salted or smoked), with shrimp, with squid, crab sticks, with trout and even with sea kale. Despite the huge variety of recipes, the “oceanic” flavor of food remains unchanged. It will amuse not only your stomach, but also an aesthetic feeling. After all, most recipes prescribe laying layers of salad. Therefore, we stock up on transparent dishes and proceed to cooking.
Classic salad recipe “Pearl” (with salmon)
The taste of the dish should clearly be felt fish and red caviar. But these ingredients need quite a bit. You should not take too salted fish. It levels the tenderness of caviar and other components. We start by boiling three large (or 4 small) chicken eggs and another quail. The latter will play the role of a pearl in us. Salmon salad is made very simple.
In chicken eggs, we separate the proteins from the yolks. Finely rub both of them into different containers. Salted or smoked salmon (150 grams) is cut into small cubes, peeled orange into cubes, and a dozen large green pitted olives into rings. Fifty grams of hard cheese with three fine chips. Mix salt with black pepper. Needless to say, all of these components should occupy separate plates?
And now we will put the salad. At the bottom of the dish we put half the proteins. Level, grease with mayonnaise, sprinkle with salt and pepper on the tip of the knife. Put all the yolks on top. We also coat them with mayonnaise and spices. Put half the salmon above. Immediately put olives on it (several rings should be left to decorate the salad). Next, lay in layers: the remaining salmon, cheese, mayonnaise, orange, the second part of the proteins and mayonnaise again, but with salt and pepper. We decorate the top of the dish with red caviar (you need two tablespoons) and olives. In the middle we place the peeled quail egg.
Salad "Black Pearl" with salmon
First, put in a freezer a piece of oil weighing 50 grams. Walnut kernels are calcined in a dry frying pan. Prune (150 grams) pour boiling water for ten minutes. When the dried fruits are softened, we take out the seeds. After choosing a few plums, we insert into the quarters of the nut. Finely chop the remaining dried fruits. Boil four hard boiled eggs. When they cool, clean them and rub. Grind 300 grams of hard cheese in the same way. Smoked salmon (about 200 g) is cut into small pieces. We take out the oil and three very fine chips. We immediately put the bowl in the freezer again. Salt and pepper the eggs.
We begin to lay the salad with salmon layers. Eggs (half the mass) will go to the very bottom. We put a quarter of salmon on them. Lightly spread this layer with mayonnaise. Place half of the amount of cheese and butter on top. Above, we will go all the mass of chopped prunes. We spread the remaining salmon on it. We coat with mayonnaise and then place the remains of cheese, butter and eggs. We decorate the salad with whole prunes. Do not like prunes? A great alternative is olives. This dish can be made everyday, replacing the salmon with crab sticks.
Avocado Basket
Salad "Pearl" with salmon can be served to the table and portioned. And in a very original way - in halves of an avocado. Cut the fruit in half, remove the bone and pulp. We cut the last one. Two hard-boiled eggs are ground on a grater. Cut salmon or trout (150 grams) and 40 g of hard cheese into cubes. Pitted green olives shred in half rings. Mix all the ingredients. Dress with mayonnaise. Salt and pepper to taste. Put the salad in halves of avocado. Garnish with red caviar or a slice of lemon.
Salad "Pearl" with squid
For some reason do not like fish? Then you can replace this ingredient with other marine products. According to reviews, Salad "Pearl" with salmon may not be affordable for everyone. And if you want to feast on an ocean snack every day, instead of red fish, take squid. If you've never cooked these seafoods before, remember a little secret. The longer you cook squids, the harder they become.
And therefore, the carcasses are freed from the film, lowered for only two to three minutes in boiling salt water and pulled out. When they have completely cooled, we will cut them into half rings for salad. Three hard boiled eggs. Also prepare 3 jacket potatoes. Divide the eggs into yolk and protein. We rub in separate bowls. Peel and chop the potatoes. In a separate container, wipe one hundred grams of hard cheese.
Now that all the ingredients are cooked, we begin to spread the salad. We coat each layer with mayonnaise. We create our masterpiece in the following sequence: potato, squid, protein, cheese, yolk. Coat the top surface of the salad with mayonnaise. From thin slices of cheese, cut curly ribbons. Decorate the appetizer with red caviar.
"Pearl" with squid and shrimp
This is a more dietary variation of the previous recipe. Here we will refuse potatoes and cheese, but increase the amount of seafood. And we need a whole can of red caviar. We start preparing the “Pearl” salad with shrimp and squid by cooking five chicken and one quail egg until tender. We leave the last for now. It will be our "pearl."
In chicken eggs, we separate the yolks and proteins, which we rub finely in separate containers. Boil 240 g squid. We cut into strips. Cook three hundred grams of shrimp. We clear them of shells. We begin to lay our salad in layers. Put the squids below. Add them and pepper. Sprinkle with yolk. Lubricate this layer with mayonnaise. Lay out half the shrimp meat and squirrels on top of it. Above is the most expensive layer - red caviar. Put the remaining shrimp on it. We decorate with pitted black olives, mayonnaise and, of course, a “pearl” - a quail egg. By the way, if you want the "pearl" to be black, use a whole olive instead of a quail egg. Looks good too!
With seaweed and mango
This exotic dish, combining such unusual ingredients, will become no less decoration on the festive table than the Pearl salad with salmon and red caviar. We start cooking by boiling three chicken eggs. We rub them together, without separation into yolks and proteins. We add one hundred grams of hard cheese to the same dishes. From the mango we extract the bone, cut the flesh into small cubes. In the same way, peel and chop a large cucumber (or two small ones). This salad is not flaky. Just mix all the ingredients, adding 150 grams of seaweed. It is recommended to season the salad with mayonnaise. You can also put a spoonful of caviar in the center of the salad. You can decorate the dish with both a boiled quail egg and black olive.
With asparagus, red fish and shrimp
This is a variant of Pearl salad with salmon and orange. Instead of hard cheese, carrots appear here. Boil a medium-sized root vegetable and finely chop it. Shred salmon (about a hundred grams) with small sticks. We clear the same amount of boiled shrimp from shells. Cook one hard boiled egg. In a bowl, mix a tablespoon of sour cream and mayonnaise, add, season with spices. The most difficult part in preparing this dish is the proper boiling of asparagus. One hundred grams of this vegetable should be set vertically, with the buds up, so that boiling water does not touch the delicate kidneys. And then cool in cold water to stop the cooking with internal heat. Cut asparagus into small sticks. Mix all the ingredients. Salad "Pearl" with salmon and shrimp season with sour cream and mayonnaise sauce.
Very budget and satisfying "Pearl"
Boil rice to make one hundred grams of finished porridge. We also need shrimp - 200 g. They need to be boiled and cleaned. We also cook hard-boiled two eggs. And boil two carrots. This set can be limited. But if you want to get a festive salad “Pearl” with shrimps, then you should add 200 grams of crab sticks, two cucumbers, a can of canned corn, red caviar, hard cheese (50 g) and fresh greens to the list of ingredients.
All three ingredients in separate bowls (in eggs, proteins should be separated from the yolks). Finely chop the cucumbers. We stack all components, as well as a classic salad with salmon, layers. The lowest layer is half the rice porridge. This is followed by a mayonnaise layer, crab sticks, again sauce, cucumbers, yolks, again mayonnaise, the rest of the cereals, shrimps, corn, mayonnaise, cheese and protein. Garnish the dish with red caviar and whole prawns.
A few feed ideas
Salad "Pearl" with salmon and red caviar or shrimp and squid, most recipes are advised to serve puff. But this is not a dogma, and you can approach the design of the dish with all possible imagination. For example, put a salad in a portioned “shell” made of cabbage leaf, the edges of which are painted with beetroot juice. You can heat the cake pan and put a thin slice of cheese in it. It will take the form of a corrugated basket, which will be the original (and edible!) Dishes for our salad. If you want to make a puff snack, you can use transparent portioned ice cream cones.