How many varied holiday salads! But among all this variety, Chrysanthemum salad has a special place. It is gentle and very beautiful - because the name itself testifies to its splendor. How to cook it?
Salad "Chrysanthemum" - recipe and description of preparation
• Finely chop the peeled onion and leave it in a container of cold water for half an hour to remove the bitterness. Drain the liquid.
• Boil 5 eggs. Separate the whites and yolks in different dishes and grate on a medium sized grater.
• Cut 400 g of crab sticks as finely as possible.
• Grate one apple without a peel on a medium grater. To prevent apples from darkening, pour them with lemon juice.
• Now make the layers, not forgetting to smear them abundantly with mayonnaise: cover the bottom of the dish with lettuce and put the apple layer first. Next half of the egg yolk shavings, crab sticks, 200 g of soft cheese grated, onions, at the end egg whites. Pour with mayonnaise and cover with the remaining yolks.
• Garnish Chrysanthemum Salad with a Real Blue Cabbage Flower. To do this, cut a head of blue cabbage into long strips. In the center of the finished salad, put a few green lettuce leaves and arrange the flower itself, carefully placing strips of cabbage in the form of chrysanthemum petals.
Yellow Chrysanthemum Salad
It takes almost 40 minutes to cook it. But it's worth it, because your guests will try to figure out what you prepared this yummy from.
• Cut boiled chicken legs into strips.
• Cut salted mushrooms (approximately 200 g) into strips and fry them in vegetable oil.
• Cut one onion into half rings and pour over boiling water so as not to bitter.
• Mix chicken, mushrooms and onions and put on a beautiful flat plate in the form of a slide.
• Cook the egg pancakes. To do this, beat two eggs with a fork, salt and pour into a large skillet to make the omelet thin. If you have a frying pan of small diameter, then fry the pancakes in portions in half the egg. Finished cooled pancakes, cut into thin long strips and sprinkle them on a salad slide.
• Garnish with corn.
This dish is called Yellow Chrysanthemum Salad, as it has a bright yellow color. Against such a background, a flower-shaped ornament will look very impressive, similar to that described in the previous recipe.
Flower cooking is a fashion trend in the art of cooking
Today, flower dishes are becoming very popular. Flowers that are looked at bring no less pleasure than those that eat. For example, chrysanthemum is edible. The shoots, inflorescences and leaves of this plant have a spicy aftertaste and a specific aroma. The flower itself is used to decorate various dishes, cakes, decorate sandwiches and freeze flowers in ice cubes.
In Asian countries, chrysanthemum is a product for delicious and nutritious desserts.
If you want to make a candied flower based on live chrysanthemum to decorate a sweet dish or pastries, then you can do the following: beat egg white and manually cover the petals with a brush with protein. Then gently sprinkle sugar over the petals of the flower or buds through the strainer and dry them on a napkin or paper towel. To get the color in the color of chrysanthemum, you can color the icing sugar.
If you want to try to make a Chinese dessert from a chrysanthemum flower, then use this recipe: lower the petals of chrysanthemum for a while in a mass of eggs and flour, then remove and quickly dip in melted hot oil. Spread out on paper and allow excess oil to soak into the paper. Sprinkle with sugar or powdered sugar. This treat resembles a cake and can be served with ice cream. Some foodies visit Chinese restaurants solely for the sake of this dessert.
Experts say that flower cooking is very healthy and has a number of healing properties. But this is a topic for another conversation.