Cheese salad with eggs and garlic is very easy to prepare, requires a minimum of ingredients, money and effort. It can be attributed to the category of "inexpensive, fast, tasty." This is a great snack option for both a festive table and a casual dinner. Today we will tell you how to cook a salad at home, share the options for serving and decoration.
Jewish Salad
The cheese and garlic salad recipe is often called "Jewish" because it is a thoughtful, inexpensive, tasty, but effortless dish. There are two cooking options: using cheap processed cheeses like "Friendship" or "Amber" and using harder varieties of cheese. For the recipe, you can take feta cheese, Russian cheese, Maasdam, tilsiter, suluguni or sour cream. Experienced housewives are advised to choose softer varieties that are easier to grate. In addition, soft cheese will be faster and easier to mix with other ingredients in the dish.
For cooking, you can choose the classic version of the salad: eggs, cheese, garlic, mayonnaise. If you want to make the salad more delicate in taste, then in equal proportions mix mayonnaise with sour cream of low fat content or Greek yogurt. Remember that after insisting the salad becomes much thicker, so if it has been in the refrigerator for too long, it is recommended to season it with mayonnaise or sour cream a little before serving.
List of Essential Ingredients
The following products are used to make 4 standard servings of salad.
For cooking, we need:
- 2.5 briquettes of cream cheese;
- a pinch of salt;
- 7 cloves of garlic;
- 2 eggs;
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- sour cream - at will.
Description of the cooking process
The first step in making cheese salad with eggs and garlic is boiling eggs. We need hard-boiled eggs. Put the eggs in a small pan, fill with water so that the liquid completely covers the eggs. Water should be cold. Many housewives know that if you add a little salt to the water for boiling eggs, then the shell does not crack in the cooking process, and the protein does not leak. We send the pan to the fire, set the gas to a high level. As soon as the water boils, we lower it to medium or even minimal.
How much do you need to cook hard-boiled eggs? In order not to digest the eggs, boiling over low heat for 13-15 minutes will be sufficient. Then we move the pan from the stove to the sink, fill the eggs with cold water. You can add cold water directly to hot water. But usually the mistresses first pour boiling water, then pour the eggs with ice water and leave to cool completely. After that, they are peeled and finely chopped using a grater.
The second stage in the preparation of cheese salad with eggs and garlic is the grinding of cheese. If a classic processed cheese is used for cooking, then before you grate it, put the product for five minutes in the freezer. Slightly frozen cheese will be easier to rub. If a hard cheese is used in the preparation, then preliminary freezing is not required.
The third stage is garlic. In our recipe for processed cheese salad, seven cloves of garlic are indicated, but their quantity can vary depending on the cook's preferences and the size of the cloves. If you like more sharply, add 7-9 cloves, if you want to achieve a more delicate taste with a subtle garlic aroma, then a couple of cloves of garlic will be enough. For grinding, you can use a fine grater or a garlic squeezer.
The fourth step is mixing the prepared ingredients. We put cheese and eggs in a salad bowl. Distribute chopped garlic evenly and mix gently. Add a pinch of salt. Put mayonnaise, mix again.
The last stage is decoration with greens and serving.
How to Serve Cheese Salad with Egg and Garlic
As mentioned above, this is a versatile snack option. You can make a salad an independent dish, or you can include it in addition to a vegetable side dish or meat products.
Tartlets
We take ready-made store tartlets and fill them with salad. Garnish the dish with a sprig of parsley or green basil.
Tomatoes
Cheese salad with eggs and garlic is great for stuffing fresh vegetables. Ideal option - fragrant garden tomatoes. Wash the tomatoes, cut off the upper part ("cap"), use a spoon to remove seeds, fill the cavity with salad, put the tomatoes on a plate and decorate with greens.
Mushrooms
Choose large and equal in size champignons. We wash them, clean them from partitions and hard legs, put them on a paper towel to dry them slightly. We fill the mushrooms with salad, decorate with fresh herbs.
You can cook a hot appetizer - baked stuffed mushrooms. Mushrooms stuffed with a salad of eggs, cheese and garlic are transferred to a small baking sheet and sent for ten minutes in the oven. Three minutes before the end of cooking, we take out the mushrooms, sprinkle each with a small amount of cheese, again remove the “reach” until an appetizing ruddy “hat” is formed.
A sandwich
Quite often, the salad is served in the form of a paste on a piece of bread or a toaster roll. To make the dish more savory, it is recommended to lightly fry the bread and grate the crisp with a garlic clove. Lightly dilute the salad with mayonnaise or sour cream, so that it is easier to spread on bread. Garnish the dish with a sprig of greenery.
Stuffed Boiled Eggs
A cheese salad with an egg and garlic will look very beautiful and appetizing if they stuff a boiled egg. The eggs that are boiled for salad are not completely crushed - only the yolk is rubbed on a grater, which is mixed with cheese, garlic and dressing to taste. Halved protein stuffed with salad and stacked on a plate.
Fantasy flight
Salad is not only easy to prepare - it is a space for culinary imagination. The hostess can use this dish as the basis for other snacks. Having made a salad preparation, you can not worry that there will be no variety of snacks on the table. Using one basis, you can create a huge number of dishes. Do not be afraid to experiment: instead of mushrooms, you can stuff and bake zucchini or eggplant in the oven. Instead of tomatoes, you can use fresh cucumbers or bell peppers.