The famous Uzbek salad “Dier”: cooking methods and design options

Dier salad is one of the most famous dishes of Uzbek cuisine. An extremely satisfying and tasty product can be used as an original snack during lunch or as an independent dish, replacing a full dinner.

Layered option

Dier salad can be cooked by any Uzbek hostess. Its recipe is extremely simple and requires minimal culinary skills. To prepare such a dish, you need the simplest products: 2 eggs, 3 potatoes, salt, fresh cucumber, ground black pepper, 50 grams of hard cheese, vegetable oil and mayonnaise.

Making Dier salad is quite simple:

1. Boil the eggs first.
2. Grind potatoes, cucumber and eggs into strips, for cheese you can use a large or small grater.
3. Pour oil into a pan and heat it well.
4. Fry the potatoes in boiling fat so that the straw is covered with a golden brown on all sides. After this, the finished product must be cooled by pouring it on a napkin. This will help remove excess fat from the potato.
5. Once all the products are ready, you can proceed with the assembly. Dier salad is a puff dish. First, put the potatoes on the bottom of the plate. Previously, it should be a little salt, sprinkle with pepper and mix well.
6. Next is a layer of grated eggs.
7. On top of it, you need to carefully lay out the cucumbers. All layers must be slightly salted and greased with mayonnaise.
8. Grated cheese completes the design.

Before use, such a salad must be cooled. To do this, just leave it on your desktop at room temperature.

Custom assembly

Each hostess makes a Dier salad in her own way. The recipe for its preparation, in principle, remains the same. Most often, only the method and sequence of assembly of the main components changes. One option involves the presence of the following ingredients: 4 boiled eggs, 2 potatoes, 100 grams of cheese, vegetable oil, 2 cucumbers, herbs and mayonnaise.

Now you can start cooking the Dier salad. The recipe provides the following steps:

1. At the first stage, potatoes and cucumbers must be cut into very thin strips. This requires some skill. Cheese and eggs are easiest to grind.
2. At the next stage, the potatoes should be deep-fried. A large amount of oil, of course, is harmful. But this will allow you to get a neat characteristic crust on the surface of the potato. Ready potatoes need to be sprinkled on a paper towel so that it can absorb excess fat.
3. Separately mix cucumbers, eggs and cheese.
4. ½ of the prepared mixture to distribute on a plate.
5. Cover it with a mayonnaise net.
6. Top with ½ fried potatoes.
7. Repeat all layers again.

Decorate the finished dish with chopped herbs. It can be dill, chives or parsley. Here everyone should focus on their own taste.

Chicken Salad

In some Uzbek families, it is customary to cook the national Dier salad with chicken. It is done very simply. First, on the desktop, you need to collect all the products necessary for this: 2 eggs, 50 grams of hard cheese, 150 grams of pie potatoes, cucumbers and fried chicken, a little mayonnaise and green onions.

Technology for making salad:

1. Cut the cucumber into thin sticks. To do this, you can use a special grater.
2. Finely chop onion and eggs.
3. Grind the cheese.
4. Put potatoes on the bottom of the salad bowl.
5. Spread the cucumbers on top.
6. Sprinkle with cheese.
7. Put chicken fillet.
8. Cover it with grated eggs. First put the yolks, and then the squirrels.
9. Next comes the green onion.
10. Pour the structure with mayonnaise, applying it in the form of a grid.
11. Repeat all layers starting with potato.

A little cheese can be left in order to finish the decoration of the dish. If there is no ready-made potato share, then you can make it yourself. To do this:

1. Chopped peeled tubers for Korean carrots.
2. Rinse well several times with water.
3. Transfer products to a colander so that the glass is all moisture.
4. Fry in a large saucepan in a large amount of boiling oil.

Straws prepared in this way will retain their crunchy properties for a whole day.

Unbiased opinion

Even in their homeland (in Uzbekistan), not everyone perceives the Dier salad in the same way. Reviews about this dish are very controversial. One likes its pleasant taste and original design. In addition, it is very satisfying and can quickly satisfy hunger. Others argue that such a salad is extremely harmful to the human body. This is mainly due to the fried potato, which is its basis. Two negative points can be noted here:

1. Increased calorie content. People who are overweight or prone to overweight, such a salad is strictly contraindicated.
2. During frying, acrylamide is formed in hot oil. This carcinogen is not broken down by enzymes during digestion, and subsequently can lead to a breakdown of the nervous system and an increased risk of cancer.

But the composition of the salad is designed in such a way as to minimize the harmful effects of fried potatoes. As you know, fresh vegetables and greens partially neutralize the effect of carcinogens. They make the dish not so dangerous for humans. In addition, after frying, potatoes must be poured onto a napkin so that harmful fat is outside the product. The proper preparation and reasonable use of such a salad will ensure safety and will give true pleasure to its many lovers.