How to cook a hearty and mouth-watering salad? The Swiss approach to festive table decoration is distinguished by the versatility of recipes, the simplicity of culinary processes.
Dishes harmoniously fit into the daily diet, eliminate hunger, saturate the body with energy and vitamins. Looking for recipes, you can come across meat and vegetarian options for dishes.
Swiss salad. Cheese and Sausage Appetizer Recipe
Do you want to surprise guests and households with an unusual combination of products, dilute the New Year menu with festive novelties of culinary delights? In the painstaking task of preparing for the celebration, the following cooking technology will come in handy.
Products Used:
- 250 g of cheese;
- 190 g ham;
- 180 g smoked sausage;
- 3 pickles;
- 2 onions;
- 1 bunch of green onions.
For refueling:
- 160 ml of sunflower oil;
- 85 ml of herbal vinegar;
- 30 g of spicy mustard;
- ½ teaspoon allspice;
- ½ teaspoon pink paprika.
Cooking Processes:
- Cheese, sausages, pickles, cut into strips, fragrant stalks of green onions - slices up to 3 mm.
- Mix the ingredients thoroughly.
- Onions cut into small half rings, set aside.
- For dressing, mix vinegar with mustard, a pinch of salt and sugar and plenty of pepper, paprika.
- Cover the salad dressing with the resulting sauce, garnish with onion, the rest of the spicy spices.
Additionally, decorate the dish with lettuce, fragrant dill and parsley. Instead of sausage, you can use chicken fillet, sliced beef.
Special dish. Summer extravaganza of colors on a winter night
A bright salad is the Swiss way to succumb to colorful memories of a vacation in nature, the juicy components of the dish harmonize with each other, creating a satisfying combination of a solemn treat.
Products Used:
- 290 g of cervelat;
- 180 g of hard cheese;
- 80 g of pickled mushrooms;
- 4 radishes;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 2 Crimean onions;
- 1 red pepper;
- 1 boiled egg;
- ½ bunch parsley.
For refueling:
- 90 ml of vinegar;
- 95 ml of sunflower oil;
- 70 ml of sour cream;
- 55 ml of mustard.
Cooking Processes:
- Shred the ingredients for the salad (except for tomatoes and eggs) in thin strips, mix the products in a salad bowl.
- Slice tomatoes and eggs, set aside.
- Mix sour cream with mustard, add the liquid components of the future sauce, season with pepper and aromatic herbs.
- Season the contents of the salad bowl with spicy sauce, leave in the refrigerator for an hour.
Before serving, decorate the dish with slices of tomatoes, eggs. For a more spicy taste, add paprika, peas of allspice, a pinch of fenugreek.
Swiss salad with pear. Gourmet Gourmet Gift
Gastronomic aesthetes will be delighted with the piquant combination of pear, pomegranate, lettuce. A noble presentation in line with the restaurant's serving standards, rich taste and spicy aroma will make the Swiss salad a culinary delight.
Products Used:
- 200 g of lettuce;
- 1 pomegranate;
- 1 pear;
- 1 cup grated Swiss cheese;
- ½ cup pecans.
Cooking Processes:
- For salad, cut the pear into thin slices, remove the pomegranate seeds.
- Thoroughly wash the lettuce leaves from dirt and sand, and dry with paper towels.
- Chop nuts and salad leaves in random pieces of arbitrary size.
- Mix the ingredients in a separate container, garnish with burgundy pomegranate seeds.
Serve the dish with sliced tomatoes, arugula. Imagine with a set of initial components of the dish, instead of pears, use apples or exotic fruits (pineapple, mango, cactus pear), add cheese or seafood.
Appetizing sauce. Proper decoration of a dish with a pear
We reveal the culinary potential of the Swiss New Year’s salad, add new notes of non-standard ingredients to the palette of tastes. Juicy dressing will serve as an authentic decorative element, a nutritious addition to refreshments.
Products Used:
- 220 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- ⅔ cup apple cider vinegar;
- 3 tablespoons of grated onion;
- 2 tablespoons of poppy seeds;
- 2 teaspoons of dry mustard;
- 1 teaspoon of salt.
Cooking Processes:
- In a medium-sized saucepan, mix sugar, dry mustard, salt and apple cider vinegar, heat over medium heat.
- Cook for 3-8 minutes, sometimes you need to stir the ingredients.
- Remove containers from heat after sugar has completely dissolved.
- Pour two cups of oil slowly into the mixture, constantly whipping the liquid with a fork or whisk.
- Add chopped onions and poppy seeds to a warm dressing, whisk.
Pour the resulting sauce in one jar or divide between several small containers, leave in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. Shake before serving.