Salad recipes are always in demand.This is an absolutely universal type of food. And everyone loves them without exception, because you can always make a salad from your favorite ingredients and get real gastronomic pleasure from the rich taste. It can be achieved not only by choosing the right products, but also thanks to the aromatic dressing, spices, and greens that are usually added to these dishes. Housewives are happy to include salads in their menu, since many of their varieties can be prepared in advance and then easily feed the family a hearty dinner or please guests with an unexpected taste. We could not ignore this topic and today we want to present to you recipes for salads with pickled cucumbers, mushrooms, and meat. The question arises: why exactly these recipes? First of all, because the ingredients are available at any time of the year. And this is a good opportunity to diversify the menu in winter and autumn, when luxurious seasonal vegetables are replaced by tasteless plasticine cucumbers and tomatoes that have not seen normal soil and are grown in greenhouses on chemical compounds. And the taste of any salad with pickled cucumbers is excellent (especially if it is supplemented with mushrooms, onions, and other appetizing ingredients), and the recipes are usually simple and unpretentious.

Salad with pickled cucumbers and chicken breast

Ingredients for the salad:

• chicken breast (boiled or smoked)
• 200 grams of champignons
• 200 grams of pickled cucumbers (preferably sweet and sour)
• a stalk of leek
• carrot
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• greenery

Ingredients for dressing:

• 2 raw yolks
• teaspoon Dijon mustard
• clove of garlic
• 50 ml of olive oil
• lemon juice or vinegar (to taste)
• salt pepper

Method of preparation:To prepare the salad with mushrooms, wash the champignons, dry them, cut them into slices and fry them in olive oil, together with chopped leeks and grated carrots, lightly salt and pepper. Cut the chicken breast and pickled cucumbers into small cubes. Peel and grate the eggs. Dressing recipe. Mix the yolks with mustard, add a little lemon juice and beat, pouring in olive oil and lemon juice in small portions. At the end, salt and pepper to taste, add chopped garlic and beat again. On a flat dish, layer half the chicken, half the cucumbers, half the mushrooms with onions and carrots and half the eggs. Pour over the prepared dressing. Repeat once more, generously season the last layer of salad with mushrooms and cucumbers with sauce and garnish with herbs. Note. You can simplify the process and mix all the ingredients. In this case, it is better to serve the salad with mushrooms and pickled cucumbers in portions, putting them in bowls and garnishing them with a sprig of greenery. Simple recipes always come to the rescue at critical moments, for example, when unexpected guests appear. We suggest adding to your collection such a simple salad that can be used as a spread for sandwiches.

Salad - spread with pickled cucumbers

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs
• 200 grams of pickled cucumber
• bunch of green onions
• teaspoon Dijon mustard with seeds
• spicy greens
• 150 grams of mayonnaise

Method of preparation:Peel and finely chop the hard-boiled eggs, cut the cucumbers into small cubes, and the green onions into rings. Mix everything, add mustard, mayonnaise, and herbs. If necessary, season with salt and pepper. Before serving, keep the salad with pickled cucumbers, green onions, and eggs in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

Potato salad with pickled cucumbers

Ingredients:

• 4 potatoes
• 150 grams of pickled cucumbers
• 150 grams of pickled mushrooms (chanterelle, white, champignons)
• 3 tablespoons green peas
• a small juicy bulb
• a few stalks of green onions
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil
• Salt, sugar, spices and vinegar to taste
• greenery

Method of preparation:Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool, peel and cut into medium-sized cubes. Mix the potatoes, chopped onions and cucumbers in a salad bowl, add finely chopped onions, pickled mushrooms and green peas. Pour over the dressing made from oil mixed with salt, sugar, spices and vinegar. It should have a balanced sweet and sour taste. Before serving, sprinkle the salad with cucumbers and pickled mushrooms with green onions. The salad recipes offered to your attention, as you can see, are really simple both in composition and in the method of preparation. After all, we strive to select such options and recipes for dishes that will suit not only experienced housewives, but also those who are just beginning to master culinary subtleties. And one more piece of advice: do not perceive recipes as something immutable - they can be supplemented, change flavor accents, in a word, approach the process creatively. It is always interesting. Enjoy your meal! We recommend reading:

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