Salad “Gentle” - general principles of cooking
What should be the salad "Gentle"? This dish should just melt in your mouth, like an exquisite dish from the royal table. And, therefore, should not contain coarse meat or vegetable ingredients that need to be chewed thoroughly.
Slavic cuisine can not boast a large number of such salads. Our housewives prepare hearty dishes that saturate men, and use meat, potatoes, mayonnaise. To find a really good salad recipe “Gentle”, you need to turn to the Italian cuisine. The Italians in the literal sense of the word emit solar energy of the region, and the chefs put in them tender cheeses, eggs, tomatoes, and get really tender salads.
Salad “Gentle” - preparation of products and dishes
Salad "Gentle" can be laid out in layers as well as mixing products. The main thing - let the salad brew well before serving, so that it is juicy and soft.
What ingredients to use for salad “Gentle”? Discard beef, pork, sausages. Tenderness implies boiled chicken breast, shrimp, grated vegetables and fruits.
Before starting the preparation of the salad, prepare several plates for the components of the future salad, garlic press, blender, a well-ground knife, a cutting board, and a saucepan where the ingredients will be boiled.
Serve the salad in a bowl that suits you. Layered salad looks most beautiful in deep drinking bowls, so it will not drain and well soaked. Mixed salads look nice on flat plates, but if you leave them to soak, put them in deep dishes.
Recipes for Delicate Salad:
Recipe 1: Delicate Salad
This salad is very famous in Italy. Not every housewife will risk doing it, as the combination of ingredients seems strange - hard cheese, oranges, boiled carrots .. But don't let that bother you! Salad “Gentle” will be magical in taste and not at all dessert. Oranges will emphasize savory plus dishes, but will not spoil it with their sweetness. For dressing, use fat sour cream or a mixture of sour cream with mayonnaise. Ingredients Required:
- Oranges (medium size) 2 pieces
- Carrots 2 pieces
- Egg 4 pieces
- Parsley fresh
- Hard cheese 200 grams
- Garlic 2-3 teeth
- For salad dressing - sour cream, mayonnaise, salt
Preparation Method:
Boil a hard-boiled egg (boil for 8-10 minutes), then cool the boiled eggs, peel off the shell and separate the white from the yolk. Protein rub on a fine grater and lay as the first layer of lettuce. Grease it with dressing.
Peel oranges, remove films and stones from the fruit, separate the flesh into small pieces with your hands and lay them on top of the eggs. If you remove the film badly, the salad will not be tender. Grease the salad dressing.
Wash the parsley and chop it finely. Mix parsley with chopped egg yolk, squeeze garlic through the garlic press into the mixture, add mayonnaise. Put the egg yolks on the oranges.
Wash carrots thoroughly, boil until soft. Grate the boiled carrots on a fine grater, mix with the dressing and place with the next layer of lettuce.
Grate the hard cheese on a fine grater, put it in the last layer. Saturate the cheese well with dressing.
Salad "Gentle" will be much tastier if you put it in the refrigerator for an hour or two before serving.
Recipe 2: Delicate Salad with Crab
If you have to lay the table for the celebration, do not ignore the following recipe. This “Gentle” salad will please the guests not only for its airy consistency, but also for its satiety. For a dish you can use crab meat, and if you do not have the opportunity to get it, then replace it with crab sticks.
Ingredients Required:
- Apples sweet and sour - 2 pieces
- Crab meat 300 grams
- 5 eggs chicken
- Processed cheese 200 grams (2 pieces)
- For salad dressing - mayonnaise, sour cream, salt
Preparation Method:
Mix mayonnaise and sour cream, salt. Boil hard-boiled eggs, remove the shells and rub on a fine grater. Put the grated egg as the first layer of lettuce, top with grease dressing.
Wash the apples, cut the tails and cut out the middle part, remove the skin with a knife. Grate the apple on the finest grater and put on the egg, grease with sauce.
Crab meat (or chopsticks) cut into small cubes, put the next layer, spread on top of the dressing.
Grate the melted cheese, put it in the final layer, brush with the sauce and put the salad in a refrigerator for several hours.
Recipe 3: Delicate Salad with Beets
A very tasty dish can be prepared without the meat ingredients that are familiar to us in salads. Prepare the “Gentle” salad with boiled beets, carrots, eggs and cheese. Since there is no meat in the recipe, this salad will be nourishing due to the use of boiled potatoes. Salad “Tenderness” with beetroot will turn out to be especially tasty, if you leave it overnight in the refrigerator to infuse.
Ingredients Required:
- medium sized beets - 2 pieces
- carrots - 3 pieces
- potatoes - 3 pieces
- chicken egg - 3 pieces
- garlic - 2-3 teeth
- hard cheese 200 grams
- for salad dressing - sour cream, mayonnaise, fresh dill, walnut 50 grams, salt.
Preparation Method:
Wash the dill and chop finely with a knife. Chop walnuts finely with a blender. Mix dill, chopped nuts, mayonnaise and sour cream, salt dressing.
Wash the beets, potatoes, carrots, best rub the vegetables with a metal brush to get rid of the ground. Boil vegetables until cooked, boil potatoes “in uniforms”. Keep in mind that beet stew for about 50 minutes, so you can prepare other ingredients at this time.
Boiled potatoes peel off, rub on a grater. To potato was easy to rub, it must be chilled. Put the potatoes as the first layer of lettuce, brush it with sauce.
Boil hard-boiled eggs, remove the shells and separate the whites from the yolks. Protein rub finely and lay the potatoes on top, grease with dressing. Boiled carrots rub on the finest grater. Shift carrots with dressing, squeeze the garlic into it with garlic press, mix. Put the carrots on the egg white.
Peel the boiled buryak and rub it on a fine grater. Mix the beet with chopped egg yolk and dressing, put the next layer of lettuce.
Rub hard cheese on the finest grater, put it in the last layer, grease with sour cream dressing. Put the “Gentle” salad in a refrigerator.
Recipe 4: Delicate Salad with Ham
You can cook salad “Delicate” and with ham, if you choose a low-fat chicken variety. Try this easy-to-cook recipe that is delicious in the form of a salad.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken Ham 300 g
- sweet and sour apple 2 pieces of medium size
- 3 egg chicken
- cucumber 2 pieces
- hard cheese 200 grams
- for salad dressing - sour cream, mayonnaise, green olives without a stone 100 grams, salt
Preparation Method:
Chop olives very finely, with a knife or blender. Mix sour cream, olives, mayonnaise, salt.
Clean the boiled egg from the shell and grate on the grater. Put the egg in the first layer and thickly grease with olive dressing.
Ham cut into small cubes. Put on the egg, grease with sauce.
Apple and cucumber wash well. Peel the apples, cut out the middle part and rub on a medium grater. Put the grated apple on the ham, brush with olive sauce.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater, divide it in half. Put the first part on the apple, grease with dressing.
With a cucumber, remove the skin and chop it with a knife. and put another layer, then grease the dressing.
Put the remaining cheese on the cucumber, brush it with olive sauce. Put the “Gentle” salad in the fridge for a few hours to soak.
Recipe 5: Delicate Salad with Kiwi
Very unusual for our region dishes - salad “Gentle” with kiwi and chicken. The light sour taste of kiwi will give the dish a piquancy, and the combination of tender boiled chicken, eggs and carrots will make the salad just melting in your mouth. Ingredients Required:
- Kiwi 3 pieces
- chicken fillet 200 grams
- carrots 2 pieces
- 3 egg chicken
- hard cheese 150 grams (2 pieces)
- garlic 3 prong
- for salad dressing - sour cream, mayonnaise, salt, ground pepper
Preparation Method:
Mix mayonnaise with sour cream, salt, pepper the dressing to your liking.
Boil the egg for 8 minutes in boiling water, then peel off the shell and rub on a fine grater. Put the grated egg with the first layer of lettuce, brush with sour cream dressing.
Boil the chicken fillet until tender, cool it and cut it as small as possible. Put it in the next layer on the egg and grease well with dressing.
Boil the carrot until soft, cool and grate. Mix with dressing, squeeze the garlic into the mixture through the garlic press, and lay a layer on the chicken.
Peel kiwi and cut into small cubes. Put the kiwi in the following layer and carrots. Lubricate the kiwi dressing.
Grate the grated cheese and place on the salad with the last layer, smear with sauce.
Salad “Gentle” - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
This salad will be the tastier the longer it will infuse. One - two hours is not enough for him to be well soaked. Leave the “Gentle” salad in the refrigerator overnight, and then get a gentle, airy, melting dish in your mouth!
