Preparing salads is easier than ever - these are dishes that can decorate both a festive table and an everyday meal.
A set of the simplest products in the right hands can turn into a real culinary masterpiece. In our article, we will try to consider recipes for tasty and simple salads that can be prepared both for every day and for holidays. Remember, if you have a minimal set of products in the refrigerator, it does not mean that you will not be able to surprise your loved ones with a new salad.
You yourself will see that preparing a salad for the New Year or any other holiday is as easy as shelling pears. The main thing is a little patience and imagination.
So, we start preparing simple and tasty salads.
Salad "Pretty Woman"
This is a simple and tasty salad that combines:
- sweet apple;
- chicken eggs;
- Chinese cabbage;
- tender cheese;
- crispy onions.
All this is seasoned with fat mayonnaise.
If your family prefers salads with a fruity note, be sure to cook it at home.
There is no exact dosage of products in this dish. Feel free to increase or decrease any ingredients at your discretion.
In this recipe, we take blue onions, but this is not necessary. It can be replaced with yellow or white. And do not forget to add greens, this will give the dish a touch of freshness. You can add greens to your liking.
Ingredients count on four servings. Salad cooking time is one hour.
If we talk about calories, then based on our recipe:
- one hundred grams of salad accounts for 205 kcal;
- for four servings - 1417 kcal.
Getting down to cooking
At the first stage of preparation of a simple classic salad "Pretty Woman" we prepare all the ingredients. Hard boiled eggs. To prevent them from bursting during cooking, water must be salted or vinegar added to it.
In this case, it is better to use red onions. He is much sweeter than the rest. We take a couple of medium-sized onions, peel and cut into thin half rings. But if this is not at hand, you can use any other. Make sure that he is not bitter. To do this, after cutting, scald it with boiling water, and then pour ice water on it.
After that, pour onion again with warm water for several minutes. This will not only take excess moisture out of it, but also make it crispy.
Meanwhile, rub the cheese into strips. It is best to use marble, but if you do not like, then you can take any solid one. To prevent it from breaking, first put it in the freezer for fifteen minutes.
Next, proceed to the preparation of apples. It is best to use a pair of sweet and sour fruits. Rinse apples, peel and pit. We rub on the same grater as cheese. Then sprinkle with lemon juice, soak in acidified water so that the apple does not darken.
In the meantime, the eggs should already be boiled and cooled. We rub them in the same way as the rest of the ingredients.
Serving a salad is easy. There are two ways to do this:
- Mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise. Before serving, decorate with greens. This option is suitable for a dining table for every day.
- More festive option. For such a presentation, we need a culinary ring. We will form the dish on a leaf of Beijing cabbage. If there is no forming ring on the farm, no problem. Use a plastic bottle. It is better to use a one-liter. Rinse well and cut on both sides to the required height. You can use it more than once.
So, we proceed to the formation. We coat each layer of salad with mayonnaise. The first is the onion. Before spreading it, squeeze out excess fluid. Next, you need to make a mayonnaise grid.
The next layer is the eggs. Press them a little and add again. So the layer will be denser. Having missed them with our white sauce, spread the cheese. Top layer is a crispy apple straw. You can spread it evenly, or you can put it in a pot, it will also turn out beautifully.
Remove the forming ring and proceed to decorate the salad. In this case, this is a net with mayonnaise, on which we carefully place half the onion rings in the corner of the dish and cover it with sprigs of greenery.
This is a simple and delicious salad recipe.
Celery apple salad
We bring to your attention a recipe for a simple and tasty salad, rich in vitamins. This dish can serve as a great snack. It can also be served as a side dish for meat, fish or poultry.
Juicy crunchy apple slices go well with walnuts and celery slices. And the fragrance dressing completes the composition of flavors.
I agree that not many people like raw celery, it is better to fry it in a pan with onions and carrots, or the stem can be replaced with root. It can be grated on a coarse grater or Korean carrot grater.
So we need:
- a pair of apples;
- one stalk of celery;
- thirty grams of walnut;
- a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- the same amount of lemon juice;
- one teaspoon of natural honey;
- as much mustard;
- add salt to taste;
- ground pepper mixture.
Getting down to cooking
For a new recipe for a simple and tasty salad, it will take only fifteen minutes, based on the assumption that we will prepare only two servings.
The dish contains 712 kcal, and in one hundred grams - 180.
We start cooking. Celery root must be cleaned and washed under running water. After we leave on a paper towel. When it is completely dry, cut into thin slices.
We clean the apple and free from grains. Cut into small slices, and if the apple is small, then in half rings. Spread in a container and sprinkle with lemon juice. This is necessary so that it does not darken. Add celery. We clean the walnuts and fry them a little in a pan. Then grind with a knife. In no case do not rub on the grater, as it simply gets lost in the dish.
Pour vegetable oil into any small glass container; it is better that it be refined. Here you must add a spoonful of mustard, honey and lemon juice. Salt and pepper at will. We close the container and shake all the contents well.
In a couple of minutes you will get a fragrant and tasty salad dressing. Adjust the balance of sour and sweet on your own.
Everything, the salad is ready, you can immediately serve it on the table.
Salad "Festive Freshness"
A simple and tasty salad for the New Year - it would seem that this is impossible. After all, we are all used to the fact that preparations for the holiday last not a single day, and cooking takes almost half of all time. But in our article we will try to introduce you to several recipes for simple salads for the New Year.
Here is the first of them - "Festive Freshness." This is a very simple salad for the New Year, the preparation of which will take no more than half an hour.
Required Products:
- three hundred grams of beef;
- two fresh cucumbers;
- one red bell pepper;
- onion head;
- a pair of cloves of garlic;
- ground red and black pepper. In total no more than one teaspoon;
- two tablespoons of soy sauce;
- one teaspoon of vinegar;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- as much sugar;
- refined vegetable oil.
Getting down to cooking
At the first stage, wash and peel the cucumber. We cut it into longitudinal slices. They should be medium in size. We set them aside for half an hour, sprinkling with salt so that the juice is let out a little.
Wash the meat, clear the fillets and cut into small longitudinal pieces. We put in a hot pan and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Make sure that the meat is not overcooked.
Cut the onion into thin half rings and add it to the meat. We do the same with pepper. We clean and cut into small slices and also send to the meat. We stew all the ingredients for no more than ten minutes, so that the vegetables remain a little firm. Spread the meat on a plate and let it stand for a while to let it cool.
We return to the cucumbers. Drain the juice from them, add finely grated garlic, pepper and sugar. And let stand until the meat cools.
At the next stage, mix the cucumbers with meat. Add soy sauce and vinegar to them. Instead of vinegar, you can use lemon juice. After that we put in the refrigerator for several hours. When serving, you can decorate with olives.
Everything, a simple and tasty salad for the New Year is ready.
"Snow Hill"
Another simple salad for the New Year, which will surprise you with a combination of lightness and satiety.
So, we take products:
- five carcasses of squid;
- five chicken eggs;
- one onion head;
- salt;
- low-fat mayonnaise.
Ingredients required for the preparation of marinade:
- half a glass of water;
- two tablespoons of vinegar;
- one teaspoon of sugar;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of ground pepper.
Getting down to cooking
The first thing to do is thaw squids.
Most often squid carcasses are sold unpeeled, so they are better preserved. After they unfreeze, remove the pink peel from them and pull out the ridge. Purified carcasses are white.
Next, squid must be filled with boiling water and leave them for seven minutes. This is best done in thermal capacity. This time is enough for the squid to reach readiness. If there is no such capacity in the household, then it is necessary to boil them in boiling water for no more than three minutes. The main thing is not longer, otherwise they will turn out rubber, and it will be difficult to chew them.
After the squids are ready, they must be cooled.
In the meantime, we begin to prepare the remaining ingredients.
We cut the onion into small cubes and pour boiling water over it to remove excess bitterness. Now the onions must be marinated. We spread it in a container, fill it with water. Add sugar, vinegar, ground pepper and a little salt. Pickle no longer than half an hour. Then put it on a colander so that the glass is excess liquid.
Grate the eggs. Squids that have already cooled, cut into small rings. If the carcasses are large, then we cut in half rings.
Mix all the ingredients and add mayonnaise. We send the salad to brew in the refrigerator for one hour. Stir again before serving. You can decorate with halves of pitted olives.
As we see, preparing this salad is easy. Enjoy your meal!
Another recipe for New Year’s salad “Simple Fairy Tale”
The name of the dish speaks for itself. It will take no more than twenty minutes to cook it. It is he who will complete a series of recipes for simple salads for the New Year.
Ingredients:
- one chicken fillet (but if you have a little time, then you can completely refuse it);
- three hundred grams of ham;
- two fresh cucumbers;
- three hard boiled eggs;
- one hundred and fifty grams of hard cheese;
- one hundred and fifty grams of mayonnaise. For those who do not like such a harmful product, it can be replaced with sour cream or yogurt;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- one tablespoon of mustard.
Cooking process
In our version we are preparing a simple salad with chicken. Therefore, immediately put the boil chicken fillet and eggs.
While they are preparing, cut the ham into thin strips. My cucumbers and, if necessary, peel and cut into strips.
We send both ingredients to the salad bowl and rub the cheese on a coarse grater. To make it easy to rub, send it first to the freezer for a few minutes.
Now we begin to prepare the dressing. Squeeze yogurt, sour cream or mayonnaise, add mustard, soy sauce. Mix everything until a homogeneous mass is formed.
We fill the salad, mix and send to the refrigerator for half an hour.
The dish can be served in a deep salad bowl, and can be laid out in a flat dish in the form of a slide. Garnish with grated cheese on top.
A simple salad recipe with carrots and oranges
This dish completes the cycle of simple salads for every day.
Ingredients:
- one carrot;
- one orange;
- half an apple;
- fifty grams of walnut;
- the same amount of raisins;
- three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- one tablespoon of honey;
- three tablespoons of lemon juice;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
The products are designed to make salad for four people.
Cooking process
Wash the orange and peel it. Remove the film from the slices. To make this easier, choose a large fruit. Cut the citrus into cubes. Do this in a deep bowl where orange juice will be collected. Then it can be used for refueling. Pour juice into a separate container. We add vegetable oil and liquid honey to it.
Refined vegetable oil is best used. Melt the honey in a water bath.
Mix all the ingredients to a thick consistency. Now peel the carrots and grate. Do the same with an apple. We clean the walnut and fry in a pan. Finely chopped with a knife.
Raisins must be soaked in water for several minutes. Then we take it out and dry it on a paper towel. Now mix all the ingredients and add the dressing.
Salad is best served in a transparent glass. Garnish with orange slices and a cinnamon stick.
We hope you are convinced that preparing festive and simply beautiful salads is as easy as shelling pears.