Sometimes you want to surprise your family and friends with an original dish. But often recipes consist of ingredients that are not so easy to buy. However, a delicious salad is not always made from expensive and complex products. Very often, some of the simplest snacks have a delicate and original taste. The gourmet salad recipe is no exception. It is prepared from the most affordable ingredients, while it looks beautiful and is liked by almost everyone who at least once tried to cook it.
What products are needed
It is very simple to prepare a simple but tasty salad “Gourmand”. Products for its preparation are in stock at every hostess. So we need:
- Two medium-sized beets.
- Three carrots.
- Hard cheese of any kind you prefer is one hundred and fifty grams.
- One hundred and one hundred fifty grams of walnuts, already peeled.
- One hundred fifty grams of pitted raisins.
- Two to three cloves of garlic.
- Mayonnaise or fat sour cream to taste.
- Salt pepper.
It is worth immediately leaving a few halves of the walnut, they will be required to decorate the salad. Additionally, you can decorate the appetizer with parsley and dill.
Vegetable preparation
Now let's look at the recipe for the Gourmet salad with a photo and in more detail. Before you start cooking this puff snack, you must first boil the vegetables. To do this, wash the beets and carrots well and set to simmer on low heat. After the water boils, the vegetables should be boiled for about forty-forty-five minutes. The degree of their readiness can be checked with a fork or a sharp knife. Root crops should be easily pierced. After the finished vegetables we take out of the pot with water and set them to cool to room temperature.
Raisins should also be pre-soaked in hot water for ten to fifteen minutes. After that, we rinse it, and the excess liquid should be squeezed out well.
Recipe
We proceed to the formation of puff salad "Gourmand". It is best to do it in a transparent salad bowl or on a flat dish using a cooking ring. Three beets on a coarse grater. Next, in a separate bowl, mix it with crushed walnuts. If desired, add a little salt and pepper. Carrots, shabby on a medium-sized grater, separately connected with raisins. If you do not love him, then you can take prunes or dried apricots instead.
Cheese, like vegetables, should be grated. Then mix it with garlic, passed through a press. Next, add one tablespoon of mayonnaise or sour cream there and mix thoroughly. Layers of snacks are stacked in the following order:
- Carrots with raisins.
- Mayonnaise or fat sour cream.
- Cheese with garlic. The layer should not be smeared with mayonnaise, it is already present.
- Beets with walnuts.
- Mayonnaise.
Gourmet salad surface is decorated with walnut halves and greens. After that it is worth putting the snack in the refrigerator to let it brew and soak. This will take at least thirty minutes.
In the photo, the gourmet salad looks very elegant. He will decorate any table. In addition, such an appetizer does not contain a large number of calories, which means you can eat it in the evening.
Gourmet Salad with Cheese
Not many people know, but there is another version of the snack, which has a similar name. However, this salad is much easier to prepare. And the number of products for it requires a minimum. So, we will need to take:
- Any kind of hard cheese is two hundred grams.
- A small jar of canned pineapple.
- Three to four cloves of garlic.
- Mayonnaise.
Additionally, salt is not required. It is quite enough found in cheese and mayonnaise.
Pineapples can be taken immediately slices. If you have rings, then you need to cut them into small cubes. Hard cheese must be grated on a medium-sized grater. Pass the garlic through a press or chop it very finely. Combine all the ingredients in a deep bowl and season with mayonnaise. Mix thoroughly. Put the salad on a flat dish using a cooking ring. You can serve a snack just in a beautiful salad bowl. Decorate with greens on top or at will, in random order.
This salad has a very original taste and is a very satisfying and high-calorie dish. For this reason, dieters should not get too involved. In addition, for a more affordable cooking option, hard cheese can be replaced with cream cheese.