Ham salads - general principles and methods of cooking
Ham is a great ingredient for salad, the use of which makes the dish more nourishing and nutritious. This product goes well with cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes and sweet red pepper, it is not surprising that these ingredients are present in most recipes.
Salads with ham are prepared very quickly, because the product does not require additional processing, as is the case with the same chicken, beef or fish. If among the ingredients for the salad are fresh vegetables, they are simply cut into fairly small pieces.
Mayonnaise is traditionally used to refuel dishes, sometimes kefir can serve as an alternative to it. For lovers of salads with butter, a perfect mixture of mustard, black pepper, vinegar, olive oil and salt.
Ham Salads - Food Preparation
The process of making salad with ham is incredibly simple, no preliminary preparation of the products is required, it is enough that all the ingredients are finely chopped or grated (it is a hard cheese) and put in special containers for serving.
Recipe 1: Salad with Cheese and Ham
Hearty and nutritious salad. The recipe has long been adopted by the Russian hostesses, who do not forget about it on the eve of the solemn meeting of guests.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of ham;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 Bulgarian pepper;
- 250 grams of cherry tomatoes;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 150 grams of lettuce;
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil;
- 1 teaspoon of French mustard;
- 2 tablespoons of wine vinegar;
- ground black pepper;
- salt.
Method of preparation
Ham cut into small cubes or strips, do the same thing with pepper and boiled eggs. With cheese, you can do what you want, for example, cut into slices or grate on a coarse grater. Cherry tomatoes enough to split in half. We start the salad, in no case can it be cut, otherwise the taste and aroma will be lost, the beautiful green pieces will darken. Salad tear hands.
The dressing for our ham salad will be a specially prepared sauce. Mix to a uniform consistency vinegar, olive oil, mustard, black pepper and salt.
All the ingredients of the salad with ham mix and dressing sauce.
Recipe 2: Salad with ham and mushrooms
Mushrooms wonderfully complement the ham, giving it a special taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of ham (you can take a balyk, bacon or ham);
- 300 grams of champignons;
- 3 eggs;
- 2 onions;
- 250 grams of tomatoes;
- 250 grams of mayonnaise;
- ground black pepper;
- a few spoons of vegetable oil;
- salt.
Method of preparation
Boil mushrooms in advance, cut into small pieces, fry in vegetable oil for 10-15 minutes.
Finely chop the onion, fry in vegetable oil.
Ham cut into cubes or straws.
Eggs grate.
Separately, cut the tomatoes into small pieces, after which it is necessary to drain the juice (if it appeared), otherwise the salad will not look very presentable.
All the ingredients for the salad mix, pepper and salt.
The final touch is to add mayonnaise.
Recipe 3: Cocktail Salad with Ham
It would seem that the usual products, but the sweetish taste of the added fruit completely changes the attitude to the salad, making it incredibly juicy, allowing you to call the beautiful word “cocktail”.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of boiled chicken fillet (too dry meat should not be taken, it is better to mix the legs and breast);
- 150 grams of ham;
- 50 grams of hard cheese;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 2 ripe kiwis;
- 50 grams of canned corn;
- 100 grams of mayonnaise or sour cream;
- greens (dill, parsley);
- salt.
Method of preparation Cut ham and chicken meat into small strips, do the same with boiled eggs and kiwi, grate cheese. Prepare a sauce of mayonnaise or sour cream, you can mix the ingredients in the proportion of 50x50.
We spread the ingredients in the bowls or salads in such a way that the products create a harmony of color. The sauce is poured over the food.
In order to soak all the layers, it is necessary to put the cocktail salad for 1-1.5 hours in the refrigerator.
Recipe 4: Salad with ham and cucumbers
Slavs often put pickled cucumbers in a salad, it is worth noting that this product looks very advantageous with ham.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of ham;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- 2 medium sized pickles;
- 2 boiled eggs;
- 100 grams of mayonnaise;
- dill or parsley;
- salt.
Method of preparation
Ham cut into fine straws, about the same size should be a straw of cucumber. Cheese is not necessarily crushed by hand, you can rub on the grater. On the same principle as with cheese, we work with eggs. Prepared salad ingredients mix, salt, dressing with mayonnaise. After the salad with ham and cucumbers is in a salad bowl, sprinkle it with cheese and greens on top.
Salads with ham - useful tips from experienced chefs
Try to use dry ham in salads. If water oozes out of it (it happens), squeeze out the product a little before chopping.
As a rule, ham is cut into a salad of fine straw, so its taste is more refined.
