Salads with ham and mushrooms are not just a hearty snack that is made quickly and easily, but also an amazingly tasty cold dish, rich in vitamins and minerals. It may include many additional ingredients. Every day world cooks invent new mixes of tastes - and, whatever one may say, in any serving, in any variant, this salad turns out to be very tasty and fragrant.
Salad with ham and mushrooms - general principles of cooking
For cooking salad, you can use any edible mushrooms: it can be honey agaric, boletus, chanterelles, champignons, oyster mushrooms, and many others. You can choose the recipe you like and use the mushrooms that are not specified in it, but your favorite ones. Salad in any case get tasty and, of course, very satisfying. Mushrooms are washed, then either boiled, then chopped, or, conversely, first cut, then boiled. Or simply fry whole or sliced, with or without the addition of onions. It all depends on your taste preferences, and the type of salad.
Ham is the meat product that is not only tasty, but does not require heat treatment before cooking, it is enough to take it out of the casing and chop or grate it.
These two ingredients are not only perfectly combined with each other, but also perfectly harmonize with almost all products: cheeses, eggs, sausages, meat, potatoes, greens, onions, tomatoes, nuts - the list goes on and on.
Salad ingredients can be mixed, layered or served sliced with dressing in separate ice-cream bowls so that guests can mix their favorite ingredients for themselves in the required amount of dressing.
Salads with ham and mushrooms are oriented both for the daily menu and for special occasions.
1. Simple salad with ham and mushrooms
Salad is surprisingly quick and easy. Crackers can be made by yourself, cut the loaf in small cubes and dried in the oven, or purchased at the store. It is permissible to use crackers made of white or rye loaf. Some add some finely chopped garlic to the salad to add flavor when roasting. Ingredients:
• 230 grams of chicken ham;
• 180 grams of fresh champignons;
• 140 grams of cheese (parmesan);
• salt;
• olive oil;
• to taste crackers;
• mayonnaise;
• 50-70 grams of walnut kernels.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut chicken ham into small cubes.
2. Crumble the nuts with your hands so that you get large pieces.
3. Cut mushrooms into large pieces and fry them until ready in olive oil, slightly salted.
4. Remove the champignons from the pan with a slotted spoon and place excess oil on a paper towel.
5. Stir the ham in the salad bowl with mushrooms and nuts, season with mayonnaise.
6. Add croutons to the salad just before serving.
2. Salad with ham and mushrooms “Unusual combination”
Roasted honey agarics, tender ham, pickled cucumbers - an amazing flavor combination of seemingly incompatible products. Cucumbers, if desired, are replaced by gherkins.
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of honey agaric;
• two bulbs;
• 220 grams of ham;
• butter (for roasting);
• fresh parsley (leaflets only);
• two pickled cucumbers;
• soy sauce and sour cream (for dressing).
Cooking Method:
1. Finely chop the onion, fry until golden.
2. Add the washed and dried mushrooms, fry until cooked mushrooms.
3. Mushrooms with onions cool, put in a salad bowl.
4. Add sliced ham and cucumbers.
5. Mix sour cream with soy sauce and chopped parsley.
6. Season the salad with the resulting sauce and mix.
3. Layered salad with ham and mushrooms
A simple salad that can be prepared as a light meal for dinner or a wonderful addition to the dining table. Something reminds everyone of the well-known “Olivier”, but, without a doubt, differs from its “brother” not only in appearance, but also in taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of ham;
• two spoons of mayonnaise;
• carrot;
• two potatoes;
• salt;
• two eggs;
• vegetable oil;
• 380 grams of champignons.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil vegetables and eggs, after they cool down - peel and chop grated.
2. Ham to rub. 3. Rinse the champignons and cut into strips, fry until cooked, lightly salted during roasting.
4. Put the salad in layers in any order, add salt to the potatoes and carrots.
5. Each layer will need to be smeared with mayonnaise.
4. Salad with ham and mushrooms “Spicy”
A very rich salad will delight lovers of tasty food with their amazing taste. Each layer should be smeared with mayonnaise, but since the salad includes roasted mushrooms, there should be a bit of mayonnaise so that the dish does not turn out to be too fat. Salt salad is not necessary.
Ingredients:
• 200 grams of ham;
• 200 grams of smoked sausage;
• two or three pickled cucumbers;
• two potatoes;
• a tomato;
• 180 grams of pickled mushrooms;
• 80 grams of cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• dried dill or parsley.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil the potatoes in a uniform, cool and grate.
2. Cut pickled cucumbers and tomatoes into small cubes.
3. Grate ham, cheese and smoked sausage on a large grater segment.
4. Marinated mushrooms cut in small slices.
5. Put the salad in layers, smearing each layer with a minimum amount of mayonnaise: potatoes, ham, tomatoes, smoked sausage, pickled cucumbers, honey, cheese.
6. Sprinkle the salad with dried herbs.
5. Salad with ham and mushrooms “Bliss”
Roasted chanterelles, tender chicken, ham with cheese and vegetables in an unusual dressing - this salad will be a frequent guest on your table. Soy sauce used for dressing must be of high quality.
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of chicken fillet;
• 200 grams of fresh chanterelles;
• 140 grams of ham;
• onion;
• Bell pepper;
• lettuce leaves;
• 120 grams of soft cheese;
• vegetable oil;
• soy sauce;
• 20 ml of table wine;
• three spoons of mayonnaise;
• 10 grams of adjika or spicy ketchup;
• to taste ground red and black pepper.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil chicken fillet in salted water, then cut into small cubes and fry until delicious golden brown.
2. Boil the chanterelles separately for five minutes, then cut into the same cubes as the fillet, fry until sweetcorn is separate from the chicken. 3. Cut the pepper into strips, ham and cheese into cubes, chop the onion, chop up the salad with your hands in small pieces.
4. In a bowl, mix adjika or ketchup with two tablespoons of soy sauce, wine, mayonnaise and ground peppers.
5. Mix cooled fillet with ham, chanterelles, soft cheese, onion, lettuce leaves, sweet pepper in a large salad bowl.
6. Pour all ingredients with an unusual dressing, mix before serving.
6. Salad with ham and mushrooms with chicken liver
Chicken liver gives the salad an unusual taste and richness. Liver for this snack is best to get chilled.
Ingredients:
• 150 grams of chicken ham;
• 220 grams of chicken liver;
• 170 grams of fresh champignons;
• one bow;
• three eggs;
• 220 grams of mayonnaise;
• parsley leaves;
• 15 ml of vinegar;
• vegetable oil;
• salt, ground pepper;
• spoon of sugar.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the liver, clean and, after salt, fry on both sides for 5-7 minutes in heated vegetable oil. Then cool and cut into strips.
2. Boil eggs hard-boiled, also cool and cut into strips.
3. Cut the champignons in small slices and fry separately from the liver until tender, salted in the end and slightly peppered.
4. Peel the onions, cut into quarters into rings and marinate: put in a soup plate, pour boiling water, add sugar, a little salt and vinegar. After ten minutes of marinating, remove the onions from the marinade and cool.
5. Cut the ham into strips.
6. Put a layered salad: first liver, then eggs, ham, mushrooms.
7. Spread each layer of lettuce with mayonnaise, decorate the top with parsley.
7. Salad with ham and mushrooms with dried fruits, nuts and smoked
Such a salad is especially loved by children, but adults are not averse to eat them, because the taste and aroma are so tender and unusual that it is very difficult to break away from the dish. When serving food, do not forget to take into account the fact that children under seven years old are forbidden to eat mushrooms, but champignons are an exception, but even they are best given under control and in minimal amounts.
Ingredients: • 270 grams of cheese;
• 180 grams of ham;
• 370 grams of smoked chicken breast;
• 225 grams of champignons;
• 100 grams of prunes;
• four eggs;
• four potatoes;
• two carrots;
• sunflower oil;
• 110 grams of walnuts.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil carrots and potatoes in uniform. Peel them off after they have cooled.
2. Eggs boil hard boiled.
3. Rinse the mushrooms and boil in slightly salted boiling water for 3-5 minutes, drain in a colander.
4. Dice mushrooms, ham, smoked meat, potatoes and prunes. Grate on a fine grater cheese, carrots, eggs.
5. Diced champignons quickly fry in hot oil until golden.
6. Grind nuts in a blender, but not to crumb.
7. Put the salad in layers: 1/2 cheese, 1 \ 2 eggs, 1/2 potato, mayonnaise, part of nuts, prunes, chicken, ham, mushrooms, 1/2 nut, second part of potato, mayonnaise, 1/2 egg, the remaining cheese.
8. Lubricate the last layer with mayonnaise, decorate with herbs and nuts. Before serving, stand for impregnation in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
8. Salad with ham and mushrooms with tomatoes
In general, ham and mushrooms perfectly combined with tomatoes. Therefore, this salad just will not remain unmarked at your gala event.
Ingredients:
• 260 grams of mushrooms;
• 120 grams of ham;
• 280 grams of cherry;
• four small bulbs;
• 70 grams of green lettuce;
• 25 ml of wine vinegar;
• 30 grams of chili sauce;
• salt;
• 30 ml of olive oil;
• parsley (leaves).
Cooking Method:
1. For the marinade, mix vinegar, oil, salt and chopped parsley.
2. Wash the mushrooms and cut them into small pieces, pour the marinade, set aside for 40 minutes.
3. Cut ham into strips, cut cherries into 6 slices, chop onion with thin half rings.
4. Mix ham in a large salad bowl with onions and tomatoes, add pickled mushrooms along with marinade, mix well.
5. Serve in portioned bowls.
Ham and Mushroom Salad - Tricks and Tips
• If the salad requires the presence of fried mushrooms, use not just olive or sunflower oil to roast them, but a mixture of vegetable and creamy, so the mushrooms will be more juicy and the color will be much more pleasant. • For the preparation of salad with ham and mushrooms, you can use any kind of mushrooms. Fresh champignons can be bought at any time of the year - this is their undoubted advantage, but other mushrooms can be adapted to the recipe. For example, use frozen mushrooms (they are still boiled or fried for a dish) or pickled mushrooms, which can be pickled in the fall themselves or bought in a store.
• In general, all mushrooms love fatty dressing, so salad can be seasoned with mayonnaise, sour cream, or a mixture with the addition of these ingredients. Soy sauce is great for mushrooms and ham - so you can safely add it to the dressing, only in this case you need to put salt less or do it without it.
• You can decorate the salad with all kinds of chopped nuts: walnuts, cedar, almonds; greens: parsley, dill.
• If tomatoes are present in the salad, it is better to use varieties with soft, thin skin and fleshy, not watery pulp.
• High-quality ham - the key to a delicious salad. Do not neglect this moment and save on such an important ingredient.
• Salad leaves will be the perfect decoration for any salad, for this they need to be rinsed and dried, then put on the bottom of a large dish or in salad bowls, and then put the salad with ham and mushrooms on top of them.
