Without salads, life loses a significant part of its charm. The diet becomes less healthy - in any case, gastroenterologists and nutritionists assure us so. But most housewives get hung up on some standard set of snacks and forget about the great variety that world culinary offers us. Let’s try to take a step away from stereotypes and prepare a salad with nuts that can give even a primitive set of ingredients piquancy and sophistication. And which one to choose is up to you.
The most important thing for us is that the recipes for salads with nuts are very diverse. You can choose a lean option, and a version for a solemn feast, and an everyday snack, which, despite the ingenuity of the composition, will be appreciated by everyone who tries it.
Simple and delicious
Beetroot salad with nuts is one of the most simple to prepare. At the same time, its palatability remains at its best and forces consumers to reach for the supplement over and over again.
To prepare the dish, beets should be heat treated. Many housewives boil the root crop, but, in our opinion, it at the same time becomes watery. It is better to bake beets in the oven. Time, by the way, is spent less.
When the beets cool, it is peeled and rubbed coarsely. Prunes are washed; if it is dry, you can soak the fruit for a short while. They should not be cut too finely. Walnut kernels are allowed to dry in a pan and chopped, also quite large. The ratio of components is to your taste. After combining them, the salad with nuts is seasoned with mayonnaise and mixed. Before serving, keep it cool for at least a quarter of an hour.
Elegant additions
A simple salad can be made truly a masterpiece if you add a small grated or crushed garlic clove into its mass, and sprinkle with grated hard cheese on top. For aesthetics, the dish is decorated with sprigs of fresh herbs and prunes, in which a quarter of a walnut is embedded (without shells and partitions, of course).
Georgian nut salad
Lovers of spicy and juicy will definitely like it. The base is prepared simply: three cucumbers and the same number of tomatoes are cut into small slices, the middle onion is sliced in half rings, mint with basil and cilantro are chopped finely. The main salt of the dish is in the sauce. For him, a third of a glass of walnuts, two cloves of garlic and a half of hot chili without seeds are processed with a blender. The mass is mixed with salt and diluted with two tablespoons of wine vinegar. Vegetables are watered with a mixture and served on the table.
Another greetings from Georgia
For this dish, you need an average head of cauliflower, sorted into inflorescences and boiled for a couple of minutes in boiling salted water. After tipping it into a colander, the cabbage is chopped quite finely, a large bunch of dill, cilantro and parsley crumbles, and an almost full glass of nuts is slightly fried and crushed - but not into dust, but to pieces that will feel good in a salad. All this is mixed, seasoned with mayonnaise, seasoned and used for its intended purpose.
Salad "Tempting!"
Those who try to keep their figure will especially like a salad with nuts, apples and feta cheese. For him, lettuce leaves are finely torn into a deep bowl, half an apple is cut into cubes, slices of a 50-gram brynza bar are added, and two tablespoons of chopped nuts are poured. For refueling, a mixture of lemon juice and vegetable oil is used. If desired, you can add a little liquid honey. A serving of diet salad is ready!
Warm salad
Prepared from young zucchini, which will need two or three pieces. The vegetables need to be washed, peeled, coarsely chopped, salted and left for a short while to allow the stack to have extra juice. The cubes are fried in vegetable oil over high heat; to achieve the desired result, the slices should be placed in a pan in one layer. To fill half a glass of nuts, they are crushed, for example, rolled with a rolling pin through paper. The middle bunch of parsley is chopped finely, three cloves of garlic are crushed by the press. Both components are mixed with a spoonful of olive oil. Dressing is poured into a salad, the dish is mixed and a little infused. Tastier is a salad with nuts warm. But it looks very cold and nothing - if you put it in the refrigerator and serve it the next day.
Puff salad with prunes and nuts
In the dish go:
- a third kilo of finely chopped prunes;
- half a glass of chopped walnut kernels;
- 200 grams of cream cheese, grated at random;
- five steep eggs, grated coarsely;
- two garlic cloves, chopped with a knife (in extreme cases, the same grater, but not with a press).
First, cheese is placed on the dish and sprinkled with garlic, the second layer is the eggs, the third prune, the fourth nuts. All layers except the last are smeared with mayonnaise.
Ham fantasies
A beautiful and mouth-watering snack can be obtained from products that are likely to be found in the refrigerator during the holidays. A little knife work - and you get a wonderful salad with prunes and walnuts, vegetables and herbs.
The dish is laid out in layers, preferably on portioned bowls to preserve the beauty. Ham cakes are laid out on the bottom of the dishes; it must be smeared with mayonnaise. The second layer is a mixture of grated cheese, strips of prunes and nuts (nuts and cheese are approximately equal proportions, dried fruit is taken almost half as much) - and also mayonnaise. The last laid cucumbers with tomatoes, sliced in strips; after smearing, they are sprinkled with chopped greens. Especially tasty dish in a slightly chilled form.
"A pineapple"
Salad with walnuts, the recipe of which includes chicken, is quite popular. And the proposed option is always in the top.
Larger chicken fillet needs to be boiled with salt, laurel and peppercorns added to the broth. After cooling, the chicken is cut into cubes. It can be disassembled into fibers, but the appearance will become less attractive. Pineapple is drained from the liquid if canned is taken, or peeled if bought fresh, and cut into proportionate pieces. Fruit will need about a third of a kilogram. Hard cheese crumbles in the same way, two hundred grams. Peeled nuts are taken half a glass; they should not be chopped with a knife too finely. All products are mixed, seasoned with salt, pepper and mayonnaise. A quarter hour of waiting - and you can try.
For aesthetics, an appetizer can be shaped like a pineapple, put the top with “scales” of walnut halves, and depict the “sultan” from parsley.
"Tenderness": salad with chicken, prunes and walnuts
In this dish, the food combination is very well chosen, which makes it simply melting in the mouth. So it honestly deserves its name. You need to collect in layers, smearing each with mayonnaise, in this order:
- Chicken, boiled and cut into cubes or straws, - 300 grams.
- Steamed, strained and stripped prunes - 150 grams.
- Walnuts crushed into large crumbs - 50 grams (this layer is not lubricated).
- Protein hard boiled five eggs, grated coarsely.
- Fresh cucumber cut into strips.
From above the hill is sprinkled with finely grated yolks. You can eat chicken salad with nuts no earlier than after two hours of standing at the bottom of the refrigerator. Without this step, all the flavoring shades will not be revealed.
Unusual composition
The next salad with chicken and walnuts will appeal to lovers of exotic and non-standard combinations. For it, a third of a kilogram of weight chicken is boiled with spices, after which it is disassembled into fibers or cut into small pieces. A large peeled onion is chopped in half rings - they need to be fried in vegetable oil until golden, pepper and salt in the process of frying.
Next, clean the orange; after removing the skin, the slices need to be removed from the films, cut the flesh and decant the excess juice released from it. A glass of prunes is cut, a third of a glass of nuts is chopped (not crushed), all the ingredients are put into a common bowl, seasoned with mayonnaise and carefully, but gently mixed. Ready-made salad with chicken and walnuts is laid out on a serving bowl and generously sprinkled with grated cheese.
Salad minute
Not everyone likes cooked fillet. If you are also from this category of people, we suggest you cook a salad with chicken and nuts, which uses smoked meat. In the original recipe - the brisket, but it can be replaced with legs or thigh. A quarter kilogram of chicken and a 100-gram block of cheese are chopped with straws, four tomatoes with cubes, a bunch of parsley and two garlic cloves are chopped smaller. All components are mixed, the salad is salted and seasoned with mayonnaise. It takes a few minutes to cook it.
And mushrooms
Oyster mushrooms in the amount of 250 grams are washed, dried and cut into strips. Two middle onions are cut in the same way. In corn (preferably) oil, onions are first stewed, after about three minutes mushrooms are poured onto it. Joint frying is carried out until the juice is almost completely evaporated. Pepper, salt, cover, hold for 3-4 minutes and put in a dish to cool.
Ham (150 g) is cut into strips, the same amount of cheese is rubbed. Three eggs are boiled hard, cleaned and cut - not in cubes, as usual, but in strips. Walnuts are ground; in ground form, they should be about half a glass.
Salad should be collected in layers: ham, sprinkled with nuts and coated with mayonnaise, then eggs, also with nuts and grease, then mushrooms - sprinkled with nuts, mayonnaise is not needed - and cheese cover, sprinkled with nut crumbs and with a beautiful grid of the same mayonnaise. You can decorate with strips of ham and sprigs of greenery. The dish should be saturated completely, so it is better to do it in the evening.
For dessert
Children on a holiday do not have to cook complex, heavy and not very useful cakes with pastries. No less, and maybe more, your offspring will be pleased with a fruit salad with nuts. You can buy products for him at any supermarket, and if you don’t have any, you can connect your imagination and find a replacement for them.
Dried apricots and raisins are soaked until soft, the kiwi, orange and banana are peeled, the seeds are removed from the plums, the pears and apples are pitted, the walnuts are crushed - it can be large to feel in the salad, it can be fine - if the children do not like such pieces too much. Products are finely cut and seasoned with natural yogurt. If you want more beauty, use transparent bowls and lay the salad in layers. In our opinion, this is superfluous: the kids will immediately immediately mix the mass. Top with each serving can be garnished with whipped cream.