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Cocktail salad: recipe, ingredients, serving rules

The word "salad" is known to all and, of course, causes appetite. The word "cocktail" is also in everyday life, so many people know its meaning. But what is a cocktail salad? How does it differ from traditional salads and how to serve them?

What are you talking about?

Such a dish is a trend of modern cooking. But do not be afraid of its name, it does not mean that there will be a perfect difference in composition from the usual "classic" options. Cocktail salad is a beautiful, somewhat original serving of a dish, for which certain rules are mandatory.

Such dishes can be familiar eateries or light dessert with fruits or some sweets.

Cocktail salad is a regular salad that differs only in the way it is served. Therefore, even the usual olivier or herring under a "fur coat can be turned into a variant of a cocktail.

salad bowl

All the salt in the feed

It is in the serving that the meaning of this kind of salad is hidden. The composition can be any, combine your favorite ingredients. But several factors are important:

  • products should not be cut into familiar cubes, but into thin slices or circles (although there are exceptions here, sometimes cubes are necessary);
  • salad layers should follow in a certain sequence (taste will also depend on this);
  • the layers should never be mixed, even though the use of mayonnaise and other dressings involves mixing;
  • only transparent dishes are used for serving cocktail salads.

It is the dishes for such a salad that make it a “cocktail”. So, the dish is served in bowls, wine or cognac glasses, glasses. The shape of the utensils to serve will depend on the ingredients used. The included cutlery should be a tea or dessert spoon.

Next, we present several recipes for cocktail salads.

tableware for salad cocktails

Shrimp

Shrimp cocktail salad a priori cannot be tasteless. Therefore, if you want to diversify your festive table, then prepare such a dish that combines a pleasant and delicate taste plus an original serving.

What is needed for one serving?

  • large "king" prawns - 3 pcs.;
  • potato - 0.5 tuber;
  • a third of fresh carrots;
  • pickle - half will be enough;
  • fresh tomato - 1 pc.;
  • a spoon of nonfat sour cream;
  • salt to taste.

For such a salad, take a bowl for serving.

Culinary process:

  1. Shrimps are boiled until cooked. They are cleaned of the shell, and two pieces are cut into small pieces.
  2. Potato and half of the cucumber are cut into thin slices.
  3. Tomato - in the form of circles.
  4. Carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater.
  5. Next, put the salad in layers in the bowl: shrimp pulp, potatoes, cucumber, carrots, tomato. In addition, each layer is slightly salted.
  6. A spoonful of sour cream is gently spread on the top layer, and a whole shrimp is placed on the side of the bowl.

Before using cocktail salad with shrimp, mix it so that sour cream captures each layer.

shrimp salad

Ham salad

Ham cocktail salad, and just a classic salad, it is always delicious, satisfying and not necessarily festive. A ham dish can also be prepared for everyday dinners. One of such recipes for cocktail salad is presented below.

But first, you need to prepare the necessary products based on 4 servings:

  • ham - 150 grams;
  • two medium fresh cucumbers;
  • green onion leaves - 10 pcs.;
  • feta cheese - 100 grams;
  • Greek yogurt - 150 grams;
  • half a teaspoon of regular mustard;
  • 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
  • salt to taste (take into account the salinity of feta cheese).

Making a ham cocktail salad:

  1. Ham and fresh cucumbers are cut into thin strips, but in no case do not use a grater.
  2. Next, take on the feta cheese. Its final form will depend on its softness. If the cheese is too soft, then it is cut into cubes, and on the contrary, if harder, then straw.
  3. From sour cream, salt, citrus juice and mustard create salad dressing. If you are a fan of "spicy", then add to the taste of red pepper.
  4. Next, they start laying out. By the way, wide glasses are used for this salad. At the bottom of the glass spread the ham, lightly tamp.
  5. Ham is followed by a prepared cucumber.
  6. Then comes the feta cheese, and the dressing sauce is poured on top of everything.
  7. And at the end of the whole culinary process, sprinkle a cocktail salad with a handful of chopped green onions.

Leave the salad for 20 minutes soak in a spicy salad dressing.

ham for salad

Simple egg salad

How to prepare a cocktail salad so that it can be made quickly, tasty, but with a simple set of ingredients? For this case, there are many recipes, imagine one of them. For him, you need an ordinary wide glass.

For an egg-cocktail salad you will need (1 serving):

  • one egg;
  • a third of pickled cucumber;
  • a third of the onion;
  • a tablespoon of mayonnaise;
  • a teaspoon of Russian mustard;
  • parsley for decoration.

Preparing a salad is even easier:

  1. Mayonnaise is mixed with mustard.
  2. All of these ingredients are cut into strips.
  3. The first layer on the bottom of the glass, lay the egg white. Smear it with mustard-mayonnaise sauce.
  4. The second layer is cucumbers, followed by onions. No sauce is needed between them.
  5. The top layer is smeared with sauce, and sprinkled with chopped yolk.
  6. On top of a sprig of parsley.

Those who monitor their nutrition can replace mayonnaise with sour cream. Calories will be even less, and the taste will not deteriorate at all, but, on the contrary, will acquire a new shade.

Chicken Salad

A very unusual, festive and somewhat peculiar cocktail salad with chicken and fruit. Such a dish will not leave anyone indifferent.

So, to make chicken salad you will need:

  • chicken fillet - 400 grams;
  • medium pineapple;
  • apple and oranges - 200 grams each;
  • 3 tablespoons of acidic citrus juice;
  • 100 grams of cashews;
  • a pinch of ginger.

Cooking:

  1. Prepare tall wine glasses, because the salad will be fruit and meat and these layers should contrast.
  2. Chicken fillet is cooked until fully cooked (half an hour), cooled and cut into small cubes.
  3. Oranges are peeled, peeled pineapple. These fruits are cut into small cubes.
  4. The apples are washed and turned into cubes.
  5. The first layer at the bottom of the glass lay the chopped chicken fillet. The layer should be thick.
  6. Apple slices are spread on top of the chicken layer.
  7. This is followed by an orange, then pineapple.
  8. If there is still space left to the top of the glass and the products remain, you can duplicate the layers in the same sequence.
  9. Lemon juice is poured over the entire composition.
  10. Cashew is crushed into crumbs, which are also sprinkled with salad.
  11. Ginger powder is also added to the salad.
  12. To decorate a glass with a cocktail salad, you can cut lemon into slices and distribute them along the edges of the glass.

Such a salad will turn out to be somewhat exotic. Although the unusual combination of chicken and fruit is still not something new and unusual. Everything goes well. And if you still prefer some dressing in the salad, then give preference to Greek yogurt.

cabbage salad

Cheese option

Cocktail salad with cheese - these are several options for the dish in which the main "protagonist" is cheese. Next, consider one simple and quick recipe that takes 10 minutes to prepare.

The following will come in handy:

  • 200 grams of ham;
  • 200 grams of hard cheese;
  • 1 fresh cucumber;
  • mayonnaise to taste.

All three ingredients are cut into strips, as thin as possible. To serve it use a bowl. So, the bottom layer will be ham. Next comes the cucumber, and in the end - cheese. Each layer is slightly salted and coated with mayonnaise.

Another option

Cocktail salad with cucumber is an option for those who like light, but at the same time hearty salads as a snack. And if you replace the mayonnaise with sour cream, the salad will be much more useful.

For cooking you need (for 1 serving):

  • fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
  • a slice of hard cheese;
  • 10 pieces of olives;
  • tomato.
  1. Tomato, which will be located at the very bottom of a transparent bowl (bowl), is cut in half. Each half is cut in half, and then, each resulting piece is cut into slices. They line the bottom of the bowl and coat with a thin layer of sour cream.
  2. The second layer will be cucumbers cut into strips. Sour cream is not necessary.
  3. Following the cucumber will be grated cheese. Sour cream layer.
  4. Olives are cut into circles and spread on top of a cocktail salad.

For decoration, you can use a slice of lemon. If you add chicken to this dish, then it will serve as a wonderful dinner.

"Cabbage delights"

A delicious cocktail salad can be prepared with the addition of white cabbage.

To prepare 1 portion you will need:

  • 50 grams of cabbage;
  • half pickled cucumber;
  • 10 grams of celery stalk;
  • half a green apple;
  • a piece of onion;
  • a spoonful of mayonnaise;
  • salt for taste.

Cooking:

  1. First, the cabbage is chopped into thin strips, and then salted and squeezed so that it allows the juice to be removed.
  2. Chop the onion finely.
  3. Apple and celery stalk are cut into small cubes.
  4. Cucumber is cut into thin rings.
  5. In a glass bowl, lettuce is laid out in layers so that cabbage goes first, and the remaining layers can be alternated as you like. In this case, each layer is lubricated with mayonnaise.

Fish and meat combination

Very tasty dish, very satisfying and somewhat unusual for a set of ingredients. And how to serve a cocktail salad with this combination? Use a cognac glass on a short leg.

Here's what you need (for 1 serving):

  • sea ​​bass meat - 50 grams;
  • beef or veal - 50 grams;
  • 1 pickled cucumber;
  • 1 egg
  • a spoon of sour cream;
  • a teaspoon of vegetable oil;
  • a spoonful of lemon juice;
  • salt and seasoning.

Culinary process:

  1. The meat of fish and beef is cut and mixed.
  2. Sour cream, oil, lemon juice and seasoning are mixed. Each layer is salted.
  3. At the bottom of the glass spread the meat mixture.
  4. Next comes the cucumber, cut into strips.
  5. The egg is rubbed on a coarse grater and laid on pickled cucumber.
  6. A tablespoon of sour cream sauce is laid on top of the egg. The salad is mixed right before use.

With sausages

A simple salad with an unusual taste.

What you need for 1 serving:

  • 1 boiled sausage;
  • 2 rings of pineapple;
  • a piece of onion;
  • mayonnaise, salt and ground pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Sausage cut into rings and spread on the bottom of the glass.
  2. This will be followed by chopped onions, pineapple cubes.
  3. Mayonnaise is salted, pepper.
  4. A spoonful of mayonnaise is laid out on the topmost layer. In this form, cocktail salad is served on the table. Before immediate use, it is mixed.

Fruit Dessert Salad

An incredible dessert salad, which will be a great alternative to any baking.

You will need the following products, the amount of which is determined by yourself:

  • green apples
  • prunes
  • pear;
  • dried apricots;
  • a handful of almond nuts;
  • lemon and orange juice;
  • vanilla;
  • liquor - 150 ml;
  • granulated sugar;
  • 2 glasses of pure water;
  • citrus zest.

Do not be afraid to increase or decrease the number of certain products. Such changes will make the taste of cocktail salad either sweeter or vice versa.

fruit for salad

Cooking:

  1. Striped apples, prunes, pears, dried apricots.
  2. With citrus fruit, the zest is carefully cut. It is filled with sugar with water and liquor.
  3. Put on fire and boil.
  4. As soon as the mixture showed signs of boiling, chopped fruit is lowered into it.
  5. The prepared mixture is cooled and cleaned for 12 hours in the refrigerator.
  6. After, they take out fruit and put it in a wine glass. Sprinkle with chopped almonds, watered with citrus juice. Add vanilla.
  7. As a decoration, you can insert a cinnamon stick in a cocktail salad.

"Sunny" salad of oranges and persimmons

If your refrigerator is full of orange and persimmon, then consider that you have a delicious dessert salad.

Ingredients:

  • a little thing about orange and persimmon;
  • Orange juice;
  • a teaspoon of sugar.

Everything is prepared very simply:

  1. Peeling an orange. If persimmon has a hard peel, then it is cut off.
  2. Fruit pulp is cut into cubes.
  3. Both components are laid out in a tall wine glass in two layers.
  4. Watered with citrus juice and sugar dissolved in it. Serve chilled.
persimmon with orange

"Vanilla Fantasy"

Not a cocktail salad, but a simple dream for a sweet tooth.

  • 300 grams of fresh sweet strawberries;
  • half pineapple;
  • 1 fruit of lemon and orange;
  • 300 ml cream of any fat content;
  • 50 ml of liquor;
  • half a bar of white chocolate;
  • vanilla sugar;
  • 150 grams of creamy yogurt.

Cut strawberries, pineapple and orange are poured into the bowl. Fruit is poured with liquor. Cream, sugar and yogurt are whipped with a blender. The resulting sauce is poured over the fruits, and the white chocolate is melted and the dessert is also poured onto it.

If you want creativity, use pineapple shell instead of glassware.

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