If your stomach is growling and your head is spinning from hunger,and you are catastrophically short of energy to cook dinner, then the best option is to make a salad. What could be easier? Such a dish can always be whipped up quickly: just take the products you have in the refrigerator (chicken or tomatoes, cucumbers or onions, olives, basically, everything you have available), mix them and pour a simple dressing, for example, vegetable oil and lemon juice. And the problem of hunger is solved, at least within the confines of your apartment. Of course, you probably won’t be able to feed a healthy adult man to his fill with such a dish, but for girls it’s just right. Let’s look at simple recipes that will help you become a real cook in just ten minutes.
Salad "Exotic"
If you want to treat yourself to something out of the ordinary,exotic cuisine, try making a salad with butter, tender Feta, pumpkin and olives. Recipes for such dishes are absolutely varied, but this one is among the best. Ingredients:
- 100 grams of spinach
- 170 grams of feta
- five tablespoons of bitter olive oil
- wine vinegar - 1,5 tablespoon
- the third part of a tablespoon of cayenne pepper
- pumpkin - 700 grams
- 25 grams of green olives without pits
- shallots - one piece
Method of preparation:Take a small pumpkin and cut it into medium pieces, then pour olive oil and season with aromatic spices, and then put it in the oven for 25 minutes. The optimal temperature is 200 degrees. Today, culinary sources offer all sorts of salad dressing recipes, starting with the simplest (mayonnaise, regular sour cream) and ending with complex combinations, the preparation of which takes more than one minute. The sauce we offer has an unusual delicate taste, and is made very quickly: finely chop the shallots, pour in the remaining olive oil and add wine vinegar, then mix thoroughly. The final step: put the dark green spinach on a plate, crumble the Feta with your hands and garnish with baked pumpkin. Now pour in the dressing, add olives (you can use whole or divide them into two halves) and stir. Your dish is ready! Enjoy!
"Star of the East" salad
Often simple recipes consisting of ordinaryproducts, in practice, turn out to be the most extraordinary. The dish "Star of the East" is one of them. Try this combination: sweet pepper and eggplant, ripe tomatoes and onions, seasoned with oil. If you are going out into nature and are going to make shashlik, do not forget to prepare this salad. It will perfectly complement the taste of juicy meat. Ingredients:
- four small eggplant
- one large sweet pepper
- three ripe tomatoes
- one garlic clove
- four tablespoons of olive oil
- cumin - one teaspoon
- salt - to taste
- 15 grams of fresh greens
Method of preparation:Wash the eggplants, cut them on both sides with a knife (you can make several punctures with a fork) and put them in a preheated oven. Bake at 180 degrees until they become soft enough and their skin turns black, then take the vegetables out and let them cool. Check the oven regularly, otherwise, if you miss the moment, the eggplants will turn into a meaty mush. When they cool, peel them and cut into cubes. Finely chop fresh herbs (parsley or dill), and slice the onion into thin half rings. Remove the middle from the bell pepper and cut it into small pieces together with the tomatoes. Combine all the vegetables in one bowl and pour the sauce over them. To prepare the dressing, crush the garlic and mix it with the spices and olive oil.
Vegetable salad "Summer reminder"
With the arrival of autumn cold weather, one can clearly feellonging for the warm sun, the salty sea and summer. But don't be sad, delicious food can work wonders - it lifts your spirits and drives away apathy. So look for interesting recipes and prepare an unusual, appetizing dish. Perhaps this salad will suit you - the products included in it are very simple and can probably be found in your refrigerator. Ingredients: For the salad:
- one large fresh cucumber
- 160 grams of ripe tomatoes
- one clove of garlic
For filling:
- 10 grams of ordinary (or wine) vinegar
- three tablespoons of non-fat vegetable oil
- several feathers of fresh green onion
- a pinch of common salt
- Ground pepper (black) and sugar for your taste
- grated horseradish - 20 grams
Method of preparation:Rub a deep bowl into which you plan to put the prepared salad with a clove of garlic beforehand. Then the dish will acquire a light and unobtrusive taste and aroma of garlic, and even opponents of this vegetable will be able to appreciate it. Now cut ripe tomatoes into thin slices, and cucumbers into cubes, finely chop the green onion feathers. In a separate bowl, combine vegetable oil, wine or regular vinegar, lightly pepper, sugar and salt, then pour the mixture over the already prepared products and sprinkle onion and horseradish grated on a fine grater on top. We recommend using olive oil: firstly, it has a delicate taste, and secondly, it is very useful - it has a beneficial effect on hair and skin. Be healthy!
Salad "Soviet" with mushrooms
Sometimes simple recipes, familiar to everyonechildhood, can "play" in a new way if you add one or two unusual ingredients to them. We offer you the well-known vinaigrette, supplemented with marinated mushrooms and potatoes, which in our version sounds like a "Soviet" salad. Ingredients:
- 50 grams of green peas
- 200 grams of boiled potatoes
- two large carrots
- 90 grams of white onion
- 250 grams of pickled mushrooms
- 10 grams of fresh parsley
- black ground pepper - optional
- vegetable oil - 100 grams
- one spoonful (tea) of sugar
- salt - according to your taste
- 150 grams of sweet boiled beets
- 120 grams of pickled cucumbers
- 50 grams of vinegar
Method of preparation:About forty minutes before cooking, boil the beets, carrots and potatoes, then cut them into small cubes, and the pickles and marinated mushrooms into medium pieces, and the onion into thin rings. Now make the sauce. To do this, combine non-bitter vegetable oil with a small amount of sugar, ground pepper and salt, mix well. Pour a few spoons over the beets, which you keep in a separate bowl (so that they do not color other products) and leave them like this for ten minutes. Then mix all the ingredients, add the dressing and finely chopped greens. Put the vinaigrette in a beautiful salad bowl and garnish with mushrooms. Such recipes always remind you of a carefree childhood!
Salad with chicken, celery and sweet apple
Recipes for dishes with celery are good not onlyease of preparation and exotic taste, but also the beneficial qualities that this vegetable possesses. It helps in the fight against excess weight, is capable, if not to completely solve the problems of high blood pressure, then at least to reduce the number of attacks. Doctors strongly recommend introducing celery roots or stalks into your diet. Of course, it is not necessary to eat them every day, but occasionally, lovingly prepared food will make your body a little stronger. Ingredients: For the salad:
- small celery - one piece
- a large sweet green apple
- Sea salt and sugar - according to your taste
- juicy lettuce leaves (we recommend using an iceberg)
- one boiled chicken breast
- radish - one beam
For the sauce:
- olive oil (choose not bitter) oil
- small lemon
Method of preparation Using a knife orPeel the celery with a special vegetable peeler, then rinse under running water and boil, do the same with the chicken. After both products are ready, cut the celery into small cubes and “disassemble” the meat into small fibers. Peel the apple, take out the unnecessary core and grate into strips. Then combine all the products, salt them and add a little sugar. To make the sauce, just mix olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice. Pour the resulting mixture over the dish and mix thoroughly. All that remains is to organize a beautiful presentation. To make the dish look impressive, put iceberg leaves on the bottom of the plate and your salad on top. Use radish, cut into thin rings, and chopped fresh herbs as a decoration. Recipes for healthy celery dishes can be found in any printed source on cooking and, of course, here: follow our publications.
Unusual salad with strawberries and duck meat
Salad recipes sometimes amaze the imagination -the most seemingly incompatible things, when combined in one dish, give birth to a fairy tale of various aromas and tastes. This duck-strawberry version will take a worthy place at the head of the festive table. Try to cook it - we guarantee that your guests will be delighted! Ingredients:
- 200 grams of duck fillet
- 50 grams of fresh strawberries (in extreme cases, you can replace it with frozen)
- 50 grams of salad
- 0.5 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- salt - according to your taste
- one large spoonful of olive oil
- Special seasonings and ground pepper (black) - optional
- a little sugar powder
- one tablespoon of soy sauce
- vegetable oil - for frying
Method of preparation:To ensure that the fillet is fried as well as possible and comes out juicy, make several shallow cuts on it. Then marinate: to do this, sprinkle with special seasonings for poultry, ground pepper, table salt and pour over soy sauce. Leave to sit for ten to fifteen minutes. After that, fry the duck meat in a frying pan with sunflower oil until a honey-golden crust (this will take about five minutes), bring to full readiness in the oven at 160-180 degrees (about a quarter of an hour). Then take out the meat, let it cool and cut diagonally into thin pieces. Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands, and divide the fresh, scarlet strawberries into four parts with a knife. Place the duck slices in the center of the plate in which you will serve the dish, and the remaining ingredients on top. Drizzle with oil and balsamic vinegar, lightly salt and sprinkle with a little powdered sugar. If desired, add lemon juice. Voila, the festive dish is ready!
Salad with chicken liver
This warm salad can be served asa separate dish. If you are planning a romantic dinner, take a bottle of cold white wine with it. The products are designed for one large portion. Ingredients:
- 100 grams of fresh chicken liver
- 40 grams of lettuce leaves
- vegetable oil - 30 grams
- 20 grams of carrots
- 40 grams of fresh mushrooms
- 75 grams of potatoes
- 10 grams of olive oil
- Salt and ground pepper - at your discretion
- low-fat cream - half the package
- 20 grams of Dijon mustard
- small cherry tomatoes and fresh basil
- Parmesan - 75 grams
Method of preparation:Cut the chicken liver and fresh champignons into large pieces, grate the carrots, and tear the lettuce into strips. The dish is served in a potato and cheese basket. To prepare it, mix equal parts grated potatoes and aromatic Parmesan, which are first laid out in a circle on a sheet of parchment and put in the oven for ten minutes. The appropriate temperature for this is 180 degrees. Then, using an inverted bowl of the desired size, give the mixture the shape of a basket and form its edges. When the dough has cooled, fill the container with mushrooms, lettuce leaves, and carrots. At the very end, add warm chicken liver. Before this, fry it in a frying pan with olive oil, mustard, and low-fat cream. Garnish the dish with miniature tomatoes and fresh basil. Choose recipes for light, juicy salads with vegetable oil dressing - they are easy to digest and do not spoil your figure. We recommend reading:
