Salad "Watermelon" is an amazingly beautiful dish that can be prepared not only in the summer, but also in the winter. Today, there are several recipes for how to make this culinary masterpiece. We will consider two of the simplest, but, in spite of this, very tasty, satisfying and original salad, from which absolutely all guests invited to the celebration will be delighted.
Unusual salad "Watermelon": recipe with canned pink salmon
To prepare such a dish, you will need the following ingredients:
- fresh long-fruited cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- hard cheese of any kind - 205 g;
- canned pitted olives - a standard can;
- large red sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
- large chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- garlic - a small clove;
- aromatic spices - to taste;
- canned pink salmon - 1 jar;
- medium-fat mayonnaise - 3 large spoons;
- fresh red tomato - 2 large pcs.
Product Preparation
To make a salad in the form of a watermelon, you should make a lot of effort and be sure to show creative imagination. First you need to prepare all purchased ingredients in advance. To do this, you need to take long-fruited fresh cucumbers and grate them gently. So that the dish does not “float”, it is recommended that the presented vegetable be kept in dishes for a quarter of an hour, and then squeezed out, almost completely depriving it of moisture. By the way, the same should be done with fresh tomatoes, only they need to be finely chopped.
Watermelon salad also includes layers of hard cheese. It is advisable to grate this dairy product on a medium grater with garlic and set aside. After that, finely chop peppers and canned olives.
At the end of processing the main ingredients, you need to boil the chicken egg and grate it. In addition, you should open the canned pink salmon, put it in a large plate and use a fork to straighten it together with the aromatic broth.
The process of forming an original dish
To beautifully decorate the Watermelon salad, you should take a deep rounded dish and place the cling film on it so that it lies with a minimum number of folds. After that, it is required to lay grated and squeezed cucumbers on a polyethylene layer with a thick layer. Moreover, they must completely repeat the semicircle of the selected bowl. Next, on top of the fresh vegetable, you must distribute ½ part of the grated cheese mixed with garlic, spices and mayonnaise. The third layer of such a dish is red bell pepper and olives. They also need to lay a chicken egg, which should be mixed in advance with a spoonful of mayonnaise and canned pink salmon. In conclusion, the salad must be evenly coated with the second part of the grated cheese. Next, the dish is recommended to close with cling film and put in a refrigerator for 60-80 minutes.
After the layers are well soaked, the dishes with the ingredients should be removed, and then peeled off the film, cover with a flat plate and overturn the salad with a sharp movement. As a result of such actions, you will get a semicircular dish, completely covered with green cucumbers.
If desired, the top of the salad can be decorated as follows: grease it with a small amount of mayonnaise, and then place finely chopped tomatoes and olives.
How to cook watermelon slice salad with chicken?
It should be noted that there are many options for how to make a watermelon salad. "Slice" is one of the varieties of such a dish. It got its name due to its appearance, which fully corresponds to the sliced ​​berry.
So, to create such an original dish we need:
- chicken fillet - 200 g;
- sea ​​salt - for boiling meat;
- medium-sized fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 160 g;
- canned pitted olives - ½ standard can;
- medium-fat mayonnaise - add at your own discretion;
- fresh red tomatoes - 2 pcs.
Product Preparation
Salad "Watermelon" (the photo is presented in this article), the recipe of which was examined a little higher, takes much longer than this dish. Thus, for the preparation of "Slice" you should take the chicken fillet, wash it well and boil it in salt water. Next, the prepared meat ingredient needs to be cooled, cleaned of bones and skin, and then finely chopped.
The presented salad also includes fresh vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers. They must be washed, and then, without depriving the peel, medium-sized chopped with a sharp knife and grate on a medium grater, respectively. As you know, these products contain too much moisture. And in order to eliminate it, it is desirable to maintain the ingredients in powdered form at room temperature for 12-14 minutes. After this, it is necessary to carefully drain the accumulated juice and, if necessary, squeeze the cucumbers by hand. If you neglect this procedure, then the salad “Watermelon” literally “floats”.
Among all other ingredients, grate hard cheese separately on a small grater and not chop the olives very coarsely.
Dish formation
If you follow all the rules for the design of this dish, then you will definitely get a beautiful and tasty salad "Watermelon". "Slice" is formed a little differently than the above dish. To do this, mix the following ingredients in one dish: boiled chicken, hard cheese, olives and mayonnaise. The resulting dense mass must be laid out on a flat plate in the form of a circle segment (berry slices). The lateral part of the formed form should be decorated with grated cucumbers, which will imitate the crust. Next, you need to lay a thin light strip of grated cheese. In conclusion, finely chopped tomatoes need to be placed on the main surface of the salad, garnished with olives, resembling watermelon seeds.
How to present to the festive table?
After the salad “Watermelon Slice” is formed, it must be placed in the refrigerator for half an hour, and then immediately presented to the guests. To keep such a dish in the cold or warm for too long is not recommended, otherwise it will not look as appetizing as we would like.