Salads are a joy for the stomach both on holidays and on weekdays. They give a taste variety and are readily eaten by everyone sitting at the table. Depressing is only the uniformity of the dressing: no matter what components are included in the dish, they are usually filled with mayonnaise. On fasting days, it is boredly replaced with vegetable oil - and on this fantasy is usually depleted. However, world cuisine knows many sauces with which surprisingly tasty salads are obtained. Recipes without mayonnaise also allow you to cook less heavy dishes and get new taste sensations.
Cucumber sauce
We offer several gas stations from which you can choose something suitable and fasting, and watching the figure. With any of them you get equally tasty salads without mayonnaise. Sauce recipes for them require, of course, additional work, but not so heavy as to abandon their use. The first of them - based on cucumbers - is very good in all cases when meat or any seafood is included in the dish. The only limitation is not suitable for warm salads. Two cucumbers and a hundred grams of soft cheese are rubbed on a fine grater, mixed with two tablespoons of thick (bazaar) sour cream, a couple of crushed garlic cloves and chopped greens. If you need a more liquid dressing, the cucumber mass is not laid, juice is squeezed out of it.
Ginger sauce
Ideal for herring under a fur coat, but with other components come out very tasty salads. Recipes without mayonnaise are also pleasant because long-familiar dishes acquire a new and fresh taste. This sauce is in perfect harmony with fish, mushrooms, cheese (like feta cheese and feta cheese), it will be very appropriate in warm versions of dishes. It also contributes to weight loss! For him, dill is finely chopped, a piece of ginger is rubbed (or a teaspoon of ground powder is poured), a glass of low-fat sour cream and two small spoons of Dijon mustard are poured (you can take ordinary). Mixed dressing should be infused for half an hour.
Cranberry Sauce
It makes tasty salads without mayonnaise, the recipes of which include crab sticks, fresh vegetables, rice and any kind of cheese. A handful of frozen cranberries are broken in a blender with half a glass of kefir, flavored with a large spoonful of lemon juice, two small - olive oil and red pepper. After 15 minutes, dressing can be watered over the salad.
Peanut sauce
A good choice when preparing delicious salads (recipes without mayonnaise!) With canned or salted fish, in particular, the popular "Mimosa". It is also good in dishes with beef, seafood and leafy greens. A glass of fat-free cottage cheese is rubbed through a sieve or colander, combined with nuts crushed to a mushy state (a quarter cup), half a teaspoon of horseradish, whole - lemon juice and ground pepper. If it turned out too thick, you can dilute with kefir.
Greek salad
And now we will describe the most popular delicious salads. Recipes without mayonnaise (with photos even on which dishes look more than attractive) are not as rare as it seems. For example, Greek is prepared by so many housewives. A pair of cucumbers is cut in circles, a large sweet pepper - not in small strips, a red onion - in half rings, and three tomatoes - in slices. A bunch of washed leaf lettuce runs into your hands; half a can of olives are cut in half; one hundred grams of feta (you can take feta cheese or fetaki) - in large cubes. For refueling, four tablespoons of olive oil are mixed with two - lemon juice, a pinch of basil, oregano and ground pepper (allspice or black). The salad is poured with the mixture and carried onto the table. You can not mix it - the cheese will crumble, and the view of the dish will not be the same.
Vatican Salad
Without such a usual dressing, vegetable versions of the dish are most often prepared. However, there are "sausage" delicious salads. Recipes without mayonnaise usually replace it with vegetable oil. And most often it is taken olive. A very successful version of the Italian salad prescribes to pickle onion rings in diluted vinegar for five minutes, cut five celery stalks into thin circles, a third of a kilogram of very small tomatoes into halves, and hunting sausages (four pieces) into rather thick slices. All components are mixed and seasoned with oil with a few drops of lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Salad "Fireworks"
Supporters of fish dishes can prepare delicious birthday salads (recipes with photos) without mayonnaise, with slightly salted salmon. One option looks like this:
- leaf lettuce is torn into small "rags";
- bell pepper crumbles with straws;
- the fish is cut into small cubes;
- small tomatoes are cut in halves or quarters;
- sweet Crimean onion - thin half rings;
- olives (if large) are divided into halves;
- preparing a pouring of honey and olive oil at the rate of a teaspoon of the first to the table - the second (plus two small tablespoons of wine vinegar, salt, black and cayenne pepper);
- the salad is mixed, seasoned and decorated with slices of smoked egg.
If there is nowhere to take such a curiosity, you can simply sprinkle with herbs and spread out thin mugs of lemon.