"Salad" is usually understood as a mixture of crushed products, flavored with aromatic dressing. Such a dish is usually served at the beginning of the meal. Its purpose is to cause appetite and set the person to eat. The Berlin Salad handles this mission easily.
Classic version
If you order “Berlin” salad in a restaurant or cafe, the waiter will most likely bring a dish prepared according to the following recipe.
For 300 grams of ham: 2 boiled eggs, 1 cucumber, 1 sweet Bulgarian pepper, 100 grams of hard cheese, some greens and mayonnaise.
A dish is prepared like this:
- Grind the cheese and cut the remaining products into cubes.
- Mix the components in a salad bowl, sprinkle with herbs and season with mayonnaise.
Such a “Berlin” salad can be served immediately. He does not need time to insist or soak. You can cut products arbitrarily (as you like). But the Berliner salad will be much more elegant if the ham and cucumber are cut into thin strips. From greens, it is best to take dill and parsley.
The number of products can be changed depending on taste preferences. Fans of vegetable dishes are better to take a little less ham and cheese. And those who follow their figure mayonnaise can use "purely symbolic." This salad is quite high-calorie and nutritious, so it can even be used as an independent dish.
Dish with boiled meat
The classic way, of course, is good, but there are other options. You can cook "Berlin" salad with beef. The recipe will be slightly different. For such a salad you will need 250 grams of boiled beef, a couple of onions, 1 tomato, 1 sweet Bulgarian pepper, several basil leaves and 200 grams of green peas. In addition, you will need vinegar, vegetable oil, salt, sugar and black pepper to prepare the dressing.
There were more ingredients, but the cooking method remained the same:
- Cut the meat and tomato into slices, and pepper into cubes (first you need to free it from the seeds).
- It is better to chop onions with rings or half rings. So it will be much more aesthetic. Then put the cut into a mixture of vegetable oil, salt, vinegar and sugar and hold in it for 20 minutes.
- Put all prepared foods in one bowl and mix gently.
- Tear the basil with your hands and sprinkle the cooked mixture on top of it.
- Now you need to make a fill for the salad. To do this, take the same amount of vinegar and oil, and then add sugar, pepper and salt. Water the aromatic mixture only before serving.
Fantasy with sausage
This salad is very popular. Many housewives are happy to cook it, and each tries to add its own “twist” to the standard recipe. It turns out quite good salad "Berlin" with sausage. From the abundance of options, you can choose the easiest. For it, you will need only 400 grams of cabbage, 300 grams of sausage, 200 grams of mayonnaise, 2 cucumbers,
lettuce and a little peanuts.
The cooking process begins with slicing the products:
- Finely chop all components. White cabbage is usually taken, but you can take Peking. Sausage is better to use smoked. But if her supplies were exhausted in the refrigerator, then boiled or even sausages would do.
- Pour the prepared ingredients with mayonnaise and mix gently.
- Put the delicious mixture on lettuce leaves and sprinkle with roasted peanuts on top.
You can add a little grated carrots to the finished dish. It will not spoil the taste, but will make it more piquant. Lettuce can simply be torn by hand and added to the overall mixture.
Unusual vegetable crop
Initially, salad was considered to be a dish prepared exclusively from plant components. Variants of mixtures and aromatic fillings were the most diverse. The main thing is that the dish should be juicy, appetizing and healthy. For such purposes salad is perfect
Berlin yellow.
At first glance, this is an ordinary vegetable crop. A small head of cabbage with yellow-green loose, slightly oily leaves looks completely unattractive. Such a miracle grows from ordinary seedlings in just 1.5-2 months. But this time is enough for him to become a real storehouse of taste and useful properties.
Lush leaves of yellow salad can be used both for decoration and as an independent dish. Juicy, slightly sweet in taste, they contain a huge amount of carotene, iodine, various macronutrients and therefore are excellent antioxidants. And the abundance in the chemical composition of vitamins of groups B, C, E allows you to give any dish a very necessary tonic property.