It's time to diversify the familiar Italian menu! Enough to be limited to pasta, pizza and lasagna. It's time to explore the new open spaces offered by Italian cuisine. Do not forget that this southern country is rich in fruits, and its kitchen is rich in a variety of salads, which often include quite unexpected ingredients. For example, an Italian salad with bananas has several incarnations - from appetizers in the form of additions to main dishes and including a gentle and light dessert.
Original salad with potatoes and bananas
It will be a good addition to meat with a side dish. Do not think that due to the presence of tropical fruits, the salad will be too sweet - Italians know what they are doing. And such an Italian salad is prepared with potatoes and bananas without stress and complicated culinary manipulations. Three tubers are taken for it, washed and boiled “in their uniforms”, in slightly salted water. When they have cooled, they should be removed from the skin and cut into small cubes. Four washed apples are freed from the skin, cut into slices, from which the core is cut, and crumble, again, into cubes. Four tomatoes (it’s better to take small ones, like “cream”) are sliced in thin circles, and a banana - in the same thick rings. All fruits and vegetables are combined in a salad bowl, watered with sour cream, mixed and spent a couple of hours in the refrigerator for mutual soaking.
Updated Italian Banana Salad
Why updated? Because the classic is cooked without peanuts. However, it was experimentally established that the Italian salad with bananas, enriched with nuts, “sounds” in terms of taste much more interesting. First, small tomatoes are taken - a couple of pieces - and cut into neat circles. If the size of the rings does not suit you (too big), you can cut them in half. Two bananas and one boiled and peeled large carrot are also divided into circles. Peanuts (at least half a glass, as much as possible) are ground in a mortar or grinded in a meat grinder. All components are combined in a bowl, sprinkled with olive oil (still Italy!) And added. It would seem a strange combination, but it tastes great!
Italian Chicken, Cucumbers and Bananas
Not necessarily an Italian salad with bananas should consist only of vegetables and fruits. The main "highlight" goes well with meat, especially chicken. Moreover, in such a company, chicken and fruit acquire new and very tasty nuances. The execution is elementary: an orange, two bananas and as many fresh cucumbers are peeled and cut. The shape of the slices does not matter much, but for beauty, the cucumber with the banana is crumbled into thick circles, which are then cut into quarters, and the orange is divided into slices, which are cut in half. Chicken meat is carefully removed from the bones (or breasts are boiled) and divided into fibers. This culinary masterpiece is seasoned with low-fat mayonnaise and added. And served with sprigs of greens and kiwi slices.
Salty Italy fruit dessert
To make such an Italian dessert salad with bananas, a step-by-step culinary recipe is simply necessary.
- The skin is removed from a large banana; it is cut into circles.
- A piece of melon, two hundred grams, peeled from the skin and seeds, cut into cubes.
- The skin is cut from two pears, and the flesh without seeds is cut into cubes.
- All the ingredients that make up a delicious Italian salad with bananas, a worthy rival to bored desserts, are mixed in a bowl.
- Sugar is dissolved in lemon juice - you take both components at your discretion. This dressing is distributed around the salad - and children are invited who have long been peeping from behind the door.