As soon as the first fresh cucumbers appear on the store shelves, we immediately start making a salad from them. And indeed, a cucumber, most likely the very vegetable that can ideally make friends in a salad with many other ingredients, gives salads its pleasant aroma and taste. Well, that now begins exactly that time, when very soon fresh cucumbers will be regular guests in our kitchens.
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Recipe 1. Cucumber salad with cheese
Ingredients Required:
- cucumbers - 3 pcs .;
- cheese - 70 g .;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- garlic cloves - 2-3 pcs .;
- mayonnaise, salt and fresh greens.
Preparation:
First wash the cucumbers. With fresh cucumbers do not need to peel off the skin, but simply cut the cucumbers along with it. So, cut off its tips and cut along. Then cut the cucumber into half rings. Put the boiled eggs in the pot. Cool them and cut into cubes.
Mix all the ingredients, add the grated cheese, (leave some cheese for decoration).
And yet - finely chop the garlic cloves and fresh greens. Add to the salad, fill it with mayonnaise and salt to taste. Mix all the ingredients and put the salad in a slide. Decorate it with grated cheese and a leaf of greens.
Recipe 2. Cucumber salad with cheese
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh cucumber - 200 g;
- hard cheese - 400 g;
- green apple - 3 pcs .;
- salad dressing to your taste
Preparation:
Fresh cucumbers along with my apples in cool water. Cut the ass and tails and cut the cucumbers into cubes. Cut the apples in half, select the middle part and cut them into thin slices. Combine, salt and sprinkle a little lemon juice. Then cut the cheese into thin slices using a potato peeler. Mix the ingredients and fill your favorite salad dressing at your discretion.
Recipe 3. Salad with cucumbers and cheese
Ingredients Required:
- cucumber - 5-6 pieces;
- medium tomatoes - 5-6 pcs .;
- Fresh greens - to your preference;
- green onions - 150 g;
- mozzarella cheese - 200-250 g;
- olive oil - 40 g.
Preparation:
We rinse fresh water cucumbers and tomatoes in cool water. Carefully dry them. Cucumbers cut ass and tails, cut into rings. A fleshy variety of tomatoes should be cut into slices. Put them in a deep salad bowl. Chop finely green onions and send to the salad. Greenery omitted in cold water, then shake and finely chop. Stir. Salt and pepper to taste, season with olive oil. Cut the cheese into cubes and lay them on the salad. Sprinkle cheese with butter and serve salad to the table.
Recipe 4. Salad with cucumbers and cheese
Ingredients Required:
- cucumbers - 2-3 pcs .;
- can of canned beans - 400 g;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- feathers of fresh onions - 2-3 pcs .;
- spicy ketchup - 1 tsp;
- mayonnaise - 200 ml;
- leaves of European green basil.
Preparation:
Prepare a bowl for salad. Open a jar of beans, lay it in a colander and rinse. Leave in a colander - let them dry. Wash fresh cucumbers in cool water, cut off the ass and cut them into thin straws. Hard cheese is better to grate on a coarse grater, but, and if you have enough patience, you can also cut it into straws. Onion feathers cut into rings.
Mix mayonnaise in a cup with ketchup until smooth. Now in a salad bowl, mix all the prepared ingredients, fill the salad with the prepared dressing and taste it. Only then add salt and pepper to your liking. The fact is that very often the mayonnaise is salty enough. And if you are not a salt lover, sometimes one mayonnaise is enough.
Decorate the cucumber salad with green basil leaves.
Recipe 5. Cucumber and cheese salad
Ingredients Required:
- cucumber - 2 pcs .;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- soy mayonnaise - 200 ml;
- cheese - 200 g;
- dill and parsley fresh green - a bunch;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation:
Put the eggs in the pot. We need cool eggs, so cook them for 10 minutes. For our salad, we need eggs chopped. Three on an average grater cheese. We clean our cucumbers and cut them into rings. Mix all the products in a bowl, pour them with mayonnaise and mix with gentle movements from the bottom up. We taste and season with all the missing spices. Decorate the salad with greens.
Recipe 6. Salad with cucumbers and cheese
Ingredients Required:
- cucumbers - 3 pcs .;
- Onions - 1 pc .;
- crab sticks - packaging;
- eggs - 4 pcs .;
- hard cheese 150 g;
- mayonnaise for refueling.
Preparation:
Now we will prepare a delicious salad and lay it out in layers. For this, you need to make beautiful wide glasses or ice-cream bowls.
So, boil chicken eggs. Send the eggs to a small saucepan, pour them with cold water and bring to a boil. Reduce the fire immediately and continue cooking for another 10 minutes. After that, immediately cool and clean. This method of cooking must be taken into account in this situation, because we need beautiful and bright yolks for decoration. So, the eggs were boiled, the proteins were separated from the yolks and separately they were grated on a fine grater. Chop the onion and clean the cucumbers and cut them into thin strips like noodles. With crab sticks remove the film, and rub the meat on a coarse grater. Do the same with cheese. Now we are starting to collect our tasty salad.
Put the first layer of lettuce on the bottom of a glass or ice cream bowl - onion coated with mayonnaise. Then we will lay out strips of cucumbers, we also grease with mayonnaise. The third layer, crab meat and mayonnaise. Lay out the layers carefully, so as not to smear the glass of the ice-cream panes or glasses - spoil the look! Now lay out a layer of shredded protein and gently grease with mayonnaise. Now - half of grated cheese, grated yolks up and grated cheese again. We will not grease our masterpiece from above with mayonnaise, but only decorate this creation with greens and serve it to the table.
Cucumber and cheese salad - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- If the peel on cucumbers is thin, then it is not recommended to remove it - it contains vitamins.
- Washing cucumbers under running water is not recommended. They need to be dipped in cool water, washed gently, and then rinsed in clean water.
